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.
