Central Coast Summer Series starts on Sunday
- Last Updated: Thursday, 12 November 2015 12:22
The next of our regional summer series to get underway is on the Central Coast on Sunday morning, when Nick Dent hosts us at The Haven at Terrigal.
This is a beautiful spot by the ocean, and the 1:5000 map is ideal for newcomers and families to get into orienteering.
Starts are from 9-11am and it's the usual 45-minute score course format. The series is open to everyone.
The Central Coast Summer Series details include links to the assembly locations in Eventor.
Meanwhile, Waggaroos kick off their summer series on Thursday November 26 at Lake Albert.
And this Saturday is the last of our northern Sydney-based SOS for the year, at Cherrybrook Technology HS. The series resumes in Term 1 of 2016 on February 6 at Bicentennial Park, West Pymble.
Paul Prudhoe takes major award at presentation day
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 10 November 2015 01:27
ONSW Executive Officer Paul Prudhoe has won the 2015 President's Award for outstanding contribution to orienteering in NSW.
Paul, a member of the Central Coast club, was president of ONSW from 2008-2014 and helped transition the organisation from a largely amateur oversight body to a vibrant, growing enterprise with five part-time employees.
He is a Level 3 controller, one of only three in the state, and an IOF Event Advisor, and was fundamental to our newest clubs starting up.
Paul (pictured left) has also made great headway in dealing with the many statutory authorities that orienteering must contend with in order to conduct our sport.
The other major awards for 2015 went to:
Club of the Year: Bush n Beach
Encouragement Award: Paula Shingler (Big Foot, pictured)
Rookie of the Year: Jim Mackay (Uringa)
Course Setter of the Year: Ross Barr (Garingal)
Interclub Trophy: Garingal
President's Junior Award: Duncan Currie (Garingal)
A full list of award winners can be found here.
The presentation day coincided with a run around Bicentennial Park at Sydney Olympic Park as part of our Saturday morning series that attracted 71 entries.
The SOS for Term 4 concludes on Saturday at Cherrybrook Technology HS.
We were also able to spruik orienteering to the many Rhodes Parkrunners who were in the same spot from 8-9am, and hope to see some of them come along to a summer series event in the near future.
NSW riders clean up at AUS MTBO titles
- Last Updated: Monday, 09 November 2015 14:24
Newcastle pair Carolyn Matthews and Alec Power swept their age classes to win all three distance titles at the Australian MTBO championships in Victoria at the weekend.
Alec took out M12A and Carolyn W50A on a cool weekend at Anglesea.
NSW orienteers to win the sprint and middle champs held on the Saturday were Eoin Rothery (Big Foot, M50) and Robert Prentice (Mountain Devils, M60).
Our other title winners were Rhiannon Prentice (MD, W12) in Sunday's Long Distance race, Lucy Mackie (MD, W17-20A) in the Middle Distance and Jenny Enderby (NC, W40A) in the Sprint.
A huge thank you must also go to Big Foot's Patrik Gunnarson who was the IOF event controller.
Congratulations to all those winners, and to the others who travelled to Victoria to take part.
On the local scene, the Newcastle club's next BOSS (Bike Orienteering Summer Series) event is on Sunday at Wallaroo State Forest. Full details are on the series flyer.
Wagga winter winds up in the wet
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 03 November 2015 12:55
Talented young teenager Lachlan Billett took out the main 2.1km sprint in the city CBD as Waggaroos wound up their winter calendar on Sunday.
Lachlan was fast and chose his route well to outpace his more experienced rivals. The year 8 student won by almost a minute from Alex Davey. Debbie Davey was not far behind in third place.
The event was nicely staged between the rain storms and had participants zig-zagging across the Victory Memorial Gardens and adjacent parklands.
The McDougall family did an excellent job organising their first event. Dale Clegg had a good run to finish 5th and win handicap honours for the day.
Catherine Holland with daughters Hannah and Rachel won the 1.2km course ahead of Kath Oliver.
WaggaRoos' Summer Series starts at 6pm on Thu Nov 26 at Apex Park in Lake Albert. Participants can choose a 30-minute or 45-minute score course.
