Ron and Barbara Junghans have been acknowledged for more than 40 years of dedication to orienteering with the NSW President's Award.
Ron was already very active in the sport when he introduced it to our current president, Greg Barbour and other long-time orienteers, while a teacher at St Ives High School in the 1980s. It has been a lifetime of setting, mapping, controlling, organising and participating - not to mention allowing Garingal to store all their equipment at his shed.
Barbara has just been as busy over many years and in 2017 organised the Australian championships carnival at Bathurst and Hill End. This required three years of co-ordinating a large team and debuting three new maps in terrific gold mining terrain.
The President's Junior Award went to Big Foot's Lucy Mackie for her stunning performances at the junior MTBO champs in Lithuania in August. Lucy's silver medal in the opening Middle Distance race made her the first NSW orienteer to win a medal at a world titles.
The Cox's Cup Encouragement Award was won taken out by Jean and Basil Baldwin for their efforts in leading and expanding the Goldseekers club.
Club of the Year was again won by Newcastle, this time for running a superb Australian MTBO champs a considerable distance from home, and just a week after the Foot-O champs in which many members also competed.
Course Setter of the Year will be named once the surveys from Sunday's NSW Sprint Champs have been evaluated, and the OY badges will be distributed once the calculations from Sunday have been done.
All our major award winners can be viewed on our Honours and Awards web page. Congratulations to all our major award winners for 2017.
