A massive congratulations to the NSW junior boys team who took out the Australian schools relay and prevented a Kiwi clean sweep.
Alistair George (BF, R), Duncan Currie (GO, L) and Callum Davis (BF) had three wonderfully consistent runs to finish 1:18 ahead of the New Zealand side. The Big Foot boys were fastest in their races, while Duncan was second in his leg.
Alistair has been posting sensational times in MetrO and State Leagues this year, Duncan has been running up an age group in M16A and Callum performs best when the big events are on.
The whole NSW orienteering community salutes these boys, coach Joack and manager Sally for this win.
The senior boys (Garingal trio Daniel Hill, Toby Wilson, Aidan Dawson) were fourth home, 10:37 behind the Kiwi champs but only 4:25 adrift of the first Aussie team home (Tasmania).
The senior girls were also fourth, alas 43 minutes off third place. The junior girls were last of the 10 teams but they are a very young bunch and have some years ahead of them in this division.
In the schools individual champs on Wednesday, our best performers were Georgia Jones (UR) third in the senior girls and the second Australian home and Daniel Hill seventh (third Australian) in the senior boys. Callum was ninth in the junior boys and Claire Burgess (NC) 14th in the junior girls.
Following the two days of schools action, Georgia and Daniel were named in the Australian Schools Honour Team.
