Orienteering NSW - Junior squad camp wraps up 2021

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map	Sat 2 Nov 9:30 am SOS 3 - Middle Cove Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School, 5A Glenroy Ave, Middle Cove

map	Sat 2 Nov 10:00 am Illawarra Map Running Series - Spring #3 Croome Sporting Complex John O Dwyer Oval within Croome Sporting Complex - use the northern entrance from Croome Road - most direct access to Oval.

map	Sun 3 Nov 4:00 pm River and Bay Series #2 - Randwick Over the Rainbow, Randwick

map	Wed 6 Nov 4:30 pm 2024/25 Sydney Summer Series #5 - Lindfield Primula Oval, Lindfield.

map	Wed 6 Nov 5:00 pm Newcastle Summer Street Series #4 - Blackalls Park Blackalls Park

map	Thu 7 Nov 5:00 pm Summer series #1 72 Ross Street

map	Fri 8 Nov 5:30 pm Goldseekers Park #2 - Gosling Creek Gosling Creek

map	Sat 9 Nov 9:30 am SOS 4

map	Sat 9 Nov 10:00 am Illawarra Map Running Series - Spring #4 Unanderra Lindsay Maynes Park, cnr Princes Highway & Factory Rd, Unanderra

map	Sun 10 Nov 9:00 am Central Coast Summer Series 1 - Shelly Beach Naomi Honey Reserve, Shelly Beach Rd, Shelly Beach

The NSW junior squad wrapped up another fun year with a training camp near Newcastle at the weekend.

For Johnny Nolan, 14, from Uringa, it was his first junior squad camp.

"I went to learn/improve my navigating skills and to have fun and meet new people," he said.

"On the camp, I learnt how to better navigate using contours and how to better read the map. We did a range of activities such as having a map with only contours. This forced us to use the contours to navigate without any other features on the map. I found this really useful as it made me navigate off the contours.

"We also did a map walk with a hard runner. I went with Sam Woolford (pictured) and he explained what I should be doing, the catching features and other tips for map reading. I found this really useful and it was easy to learn from him."

"I liked that the camp helped improve my navigating skills and it was really fun to be there with everyone else."

For 2022, Johnny plans to move to Hard courses and to use some of his new skills at the Christmas 5-Days... and to definitely go to more of the junior camps!

A massive thank you to junior squad coach Bjorn Mella for hosting everyone on his property at the weekend, manager Helen O'Callaghan for all her organising, and all the parents who helped throughout the year.

Here's hoping the kids will get to go to the Australian champs in 2022 - where they will defend the trophy they won in Wagga in 2019.