Orienteering NSW

Coming Events

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 Gore Hill Oval, 209 Pacific Highway, St Leonards. Meet by the oval car park and playground.

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

map	Sun 10 Nov 4:00 pm River and Bay Series #3 - Canterbury The Gallops, Tasker park, Phillips Avenue Canterbury

map	Wed 13 Nov 4:30 pm 2024/25 Sydney Summer Series #6 - Camperdown Memorial Rest Park, Camperdown.

Sydney will host the opening round of the 2015 State League and National Orienteering League with a sprint weekend boasting two superb new maps.

The Sydney Sprint Weekend will be held on March 7-8. It starts with a Saturday morning relay at Sydney Uni, only two years old but already considered one of the best sprint maps in Australia. NOL runners will do a 4-person mixed relay, while non-elites will do a 2-person relay.

Saturday afternoon we move to Sir Joseph Banks Park at Botany for a NSW rarity - a sand dune environment, mixed with parkland (see segment below) and offering superb views over Botany Bay. This is the first event in the ONSW 2015 State League, with Uringa our hosts.

On Sunday morning we conclude the carnival by unveiling a new sprint map of the Uni of NSW at Kensington. Expect more complex campus navigation. This will be the NSW Sprint Championships and State League event 2, hosted by Garingal.

Bulletin 1 has been published. Please note all these race areas are under embargo until the event.

Sydney will soon be hosting two major national carnivals and, to assist visiting orienteers, we are seeking expressions of interest in billeting competitors.

The Xmas 5-Days runs from December 27-31, and the Sydney Sprint Weekend is on March 7-8, 2015.

The Sydney Sprint Weekend includes the opening rounds of the 2015 ONSW State League and National Orienteering League, and as such we expect about 100 participants from interstate.

At both carnivals, the vast majority of events are near the CBD and easily accessed by public transport.

If you would like to host a visiting orienteer at either event, please complete this short survey.

If you are an orienteer looking to be accommodated in Sydney, please complete this short survey.

More than 100 children and parents had a taste of orienteering at PlanetFest at Sydney Olympic Park on Sunday.

PlanetFest is an interactive, inspiring and fun-filled event designed to engage and promote the conservation of parks and worldwide protected areas to the community.

In conjunction with NSW National Parks, Orienteering NSW provided a short, 10-control course with a Wilderquest theme, with each control featuring a picture of an animal that lives in SOP. Controls were placed on stalls erected by other exhibitors around Cathy Freeman Park in an area 200m x 100m.

National Parks provided a 12-month all-park pass and a backpack for a lucky draw prize, won by a beaming six-year-old.

As well as introducing children to the sport, ONSW answered a steady stream of enquiries from adults, many of whom had tried the sport in their younger days. We also explained what orienteering is to delegates from the International Union for Conservation of Nature - perhaps orienteering will take seed in Jordan, Nepal and Peru!

A big thank you to NSW NPWS for providing the stall and the Wilderquest gear and to the 4 ONSW volunteers who organised the event - Vicki Wilmott, Robert Spry, Stuart McWilliam and Andrew Lumsden.

Have a say in the content of Orienteering Australia's quarterly magazine - The Australian Orienteer.

Is there a topic you'd like to see more of? Or less? OA's media sub-committee has created an online survey to collect information on how people are currently sourcing information relating to orienteering.

The online survey will take no longer than 10 minutes to complete. It will assist in the development of a relevant, quality media & communications strategy. The survey can be accessed here.

Results will be summarised in a discussion paper to be presented at the OA Conference in Canberra on December 6-7.

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