Junior coaching in Sydney, Coffs this week
- Last Updated: Monday, 19 December 2016 15:28
Calling all juniors - this Thursday (Dec 22) we are having a fun morning at Chatswood with our Finnish scholar Atte Lahtinen.
The venue is Beauchamp Park (park in Darling St) for some coaching fun at 10am, then we're off to see the latest Star Wars movie and grab some lunch or maybe go tenpin bowling.
Please pre-enter so we know how many juniors to expect. Thanks to Barbara Hill and Atte for this initiative.
And if you're anywhere near Coffs Harbour, our club of the year Bush n Beach is having a coaching session on Friday in the dunes at Boambee - where the QB III Middle Distance race was this year.
Julian makes big Dent in field at BF Sprints
- Last Updated: Saturday, 17 December 2016 17:54
Julian Dent gave mere mortals a taste of world-class orienteering when he flew around the former UTS Kuring-gai campus in 16m44s to win the annual Big Foot Sprints on Saturday.
Australia's top-ranked male orienteer dominated the two 1.4km races to the disbelief of regulars. With an actual distance closer to 3.2km, that's just over 5 minutes per kilometre in mostly rocky terrain. Wow.
The Sweden-based Central Coast star finished two and a half minutes ahead of Uringa's Ondrej Pavlu, with ACT's Grant Bluett third.
ACT elite Shannon Jones took out the women's section in 23m20s, beating host club members Paula Shingler and Tracy Bluett.
Eoin Rothery's courses encompassed fine rock detail on the fringes of the campus with some up and down. It was great to see participants from Sweden, UK, ACT and Newcastle. Thanks to a limping Andy Simpson and the rest of the Feet for a top outing. Results, splits and more are on the Sprints web page.
Record memberships, school participations
- Last Updated: Thursday, 15 December 2016 15:11
As 2016 draws to a close, we are delighted to announce that membership of ONSW and its clubs has hit a record of 1317. Thank you to all our clubs for their work in attracting and retaining members.
School participations this year also topped 20,000 - a fantastic achievement and full credit to our development officer co-ordinator Jim Mackay who is now driving this important segment of our operations.
Event participations are also up above 23,000 again in a big vote of confidence in our organisers and setters.
We look forward to even better numbers in 2017 when we host Australia's two largest annual carnivals - the Australian 3-Days and the Australian championships.
2016 Xmas 5-days entries close Wed
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 06 December 2016 09:23
A reminder that entries close this Wednesday (Dec 7) for the annual Xmas 5-Days carnival, whch this year returns to the Newcastle region.
The Newcastle club is committed to a massive event, with 5 days of Foot O and 3 days of MTBO. Details are on the carnival web page.
The carnival starts with a sprint at the Tighes Hill TAFE on the afternoon of Tuesday December 27, followed by four mornings of quality bush O in the Hunter region. The three MTBO events will be in the afternoons.
And entries for the annual 
Big Foot Sprints close next Monday. This unique two-race sprint event will be held on Sat Dec 17 at Crimson Hill, formerly the home to UTS Kuring-gai, in Eton Road, Lindfield.
Entries are open via Eventor. And for the first time Big Foot will be offering a 1.5km one-off course for kids, families and anyone who wishes to do just the one short course.
We thank the Feet for their flexibility after permission was withdrawn for their initial venue of Rookwood Cemetery. Full details are here.
