2021 NSW Schools Team Announced
- Last Updated: Friday, 25 June 2021 15:49
Students from seven of our NSW Clubs have been named in the NSW 2021 Schools team for the 2021 Australian Championships in Tasmania this September/October.
There are eight new faces in the team this year: Rebecca Craig (Newcastle), Maggie MacKay (Uringa), Lyra Simpson (Big Foot), Savanna Sweeney (Western & Hills) and Lilja Lehtonen (Garingal) all in Junior Girls and in the Juniors Boys Lachlan Coady (Western & Hills), Alex Woolford (Bush n Beach) and Curtis Pepper (Bennelong Northside).
Australian and New Zealand school students will contest the championships organised by Orienteering Tasmania in conjunction with Orienteering Australia. Each Australian State will send a team of up to 20 students competing along with two New Zealand teams of 20 students.
Congratulations to the following students upon their selection:
| Junior Girls | Junior Boys |
| Rebecca Craig (NC) | Lachlan Coady (WH) |
| Maggie Mackay (UR) | Alex Woolford (BB) |
| Lyra Simpson (BF) | Cooper Horley (GO) |
| Savanna Sweeney (WH) | Will Kay (WH) |
| Erika Enderby (NC) | |
| Lilja Lehtonen* (GO) | |
| Senior Girls | Senior Boys |
| Mikayla Enderby (NC) | Jamie Woolford (BB) |
| Nea Shingler (BF) | Oliver Freeman (BF) |
| Julia Barbour (BF) | Oskar Mella (NC) |
| Louise Barbour (BF) | Oscar Woolford (BB) |
| Sam Woolford (BB) | |
| Clyde McGhee (BN) |
*by prior agreement with the selectors, Lilja was selected based on results from races in Finland. Also Curtis Pepper (BN) was originally selected in the Junior Boys team but declined his position.
All selected will travel with the team to Tasmania and run in the three schools championship events from September 28-30 (Sprint, Individual and Relay), while also competing in the other major events on both weekends of the carnival.
The team will be travelling with the managers and coaches Jenny Enderby, Damien Enderby and Bjorn Mella.
QBIII Maps, Photos and Course Setter Survey
- Last Updated: Thursday, 17 June 2021 13:12
A great long weekend of orienteering in the Hunter Valley for QBIII organised by the Newcastle Orienteering Club.
If you attended over the weekend please take the time to complete the Course Setter Surveys through the links below. These not only contribute to the Course Setter of the Year Award but also offer valuable feedback to setters and organisers to take into account for future events
State League 7 Avondale College
A number of photos were taken over the weekend which can viewed on Facebook:
- Day 2 (ONSW)
- Day 3 (ONSW)
- Day 3 (Bold Horizons)
For those interested you can view all the maps from Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3
NSW Orienteers results from Australian Rogaine Championships
- Last Updated: Thursday, 10 June 2021 14:30
A contingent of NSW Orienteers recently took advantage of the eased interstate COVID travel restrictions to travel to South Australia for the Australian Rogaining Championships in the fairly flat Mallee country about 3 hours north of Adelaide.
Congratulations to Julian Ledger (BN) and John Anderson (GO), who teamed up to win the Australian Ultra Veteran title for 2021! They posted a score of 1360 points and were also 42nd overall. Julian's race report is available on the NSW Rogaining website
Other ONSW participants and results were :
- Antonyia Bachvarova and Andrew Smith from Garingal with 2830 points finishing in 6th place overall
- Gill Fowler's (BF) team finished 10th with 2580
- Nicole Mealing and Andrew Brown from Big Foot finished in 15th with 2340 points
- Dom Pitot from Bennelong Northside was in a team that finished 34th with 1520 points
- Ian Cameron and Susan Kurrle from Garingal finished in 48th with 1230 points
