Valentine loves orienteering
- Last Updated: Friday, 11 March 2016 17:14
Valentine Public School has enjoyed a fantastic term of orienteering under the new federal government Sporting Schools Program.
Newcastle members Jenny and Damien Enderby put 287 students through a 5-week program, and all the children loved it. They conducted a school championship on the last day, with many great results and future champions on hand.
Under the SSP, schools register with the Australian Sports Commission, then receive funding for three terms each year. We have been inundated with requests for orienteering from right across NSW.
If you would like to participate - as a school, as a coach or as a (sprint) mapper - please contact our Development Co-ordinator This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Mentoring is available.
For more information on what ONSW can offer, please see our Sporting Schools page. Our OK-GO program is fun, educational and great exercise. And it's BOSTES-accredited.
WOW - women's training weekend is on again!
- Last Updated: Monday, 07 March 2016 11:28
A reminder that entries close tomorrow (Tuesday) for our annual Women's Training Weekend.
It's this weekend (March 12-13) in the Hunter Valley. It is aimed at females of all orienteering standards, but especially newcomers and those looking to make the transition from Easy courses to Moderate - just in time for the bush courses at MetrO League and State League events over the winter months.
Here's feedback from a rookie who attended in 2013: "Now I have got the bug to get going again thanks to your weekend help. And having the opportunity to be 'shadowed' at a real event was particularly useful to practise some of the lessons."
Anyone with any questions about the weekend should contact Barbara Hill. We thank Barbara for assembling a great team of female mentors including Lisa Lampe, Tracy Marsh and Cath Chalmers.
Toby on board as our youngest director
- Last Updated: Friday, 04 March 2016 11:23
Orienteering NSW welcomes a fresh young face in Toby Wilson onto the board as Coaching Director.
The Garingal 18-year-old is our youngest ever director and, as a strong candidate to be chosen for the Junior World Championships this year, is ideally placed to oversee the coaching scene in NSW and pass on his knowledge.
"We are delighted to have Toby on board. He brings a connection to the emerging elite and a great diversity of view to the Board," said ONSW president Greg Barbour.
"We see this as a key connection to the elite community that will help us provide an environment that fosters high performance. Our focus at present is still on level 0 as we seek to improve our retention of beginners.
"Toby is already making significant contributions to orienteering in both mapping and course setting... if only we had more like him."
Toby, who has just started a degree at UNSW, last year took out the President's Junior Award for his contributions to our sport and is the Garingal club champion.
"My role is to encourage orienteers to become involved in coaching and make sure they have the appropriate resources to do so, and to encourage coaches to use their skills to help others improve their orienteering skills," he said.
"I am hoping to build the strength of coaching within NSW to allow all orienteers at all levels to have regular, high quality coaching that is relevant to their interests, and build NSW into an example of a strong tradition of orienteering coaching."
We wish Toby all the best in this new endeavour.
ONSW wins grants to further develop orienteering
- Last Updated: Thursday, 25 February 2016 11:39
Orienteering NSW is delighted to announce that it has been awarded grants to develop new permanent courses and a school holiday program.
With permanent courses already in place at Centennial Park (Sydney, pictured left), Blue Gum Hills and Hunter Wetlands (Newcastle), and Dumaresq Dam (Armidale, pictured right), ONSW plans to roll out another three this year. Clubs will soon be asked to nominate potential host venues.
The school holiday pilot programs (one in Sydney and one in a regional town) will draw on the OK-GO kit - developed by ONSW for the federal government's Sporting Schools program - to introduce orienteering to students in a safe, friendly environment over several half-days.
Funding for the programs comes from the Australian Sports Commission through Orienteering Australia, as part of the ASC's 2016 funding towards increasing participation in orienteering.
