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Parlez vous Francais? Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Hablo espanol?
Do you speak a foreign language, whether fluently or enough to get by conversationally?
Great - would you like to be a liaison person for the Xmas 5-Days in Sydney at the end of the year?
We are expecting many European elites to be in Sydney at that time, en route to the opening round of the World Cup in Tasmania in early January.
While most of them will no doubt have some English language skills, there's nothing like being able to converse in the mother tongue. Your role would simply be to assist them with any enquiries: translating, advice about transport, event locations, weather etc.
If you'd like to be involved, please
Gracias, Merci, Vielen Dank, Tack !
Central Coast have finished their Summer Beach Series with a challenging run around Avoca. With 10m contours packed tightly in the southern corner of the map, it was a very different challenge from the previous Sunday at Woy Woy where there had hardly been a contour line in sight.
Shane Trotter (NC), who also won at Woy Woy, showed he could tackle hills as well with the best score of 520 (out of max 600), just shading Steven Roberts (510) and leading lady Kirsten Ambler (500). Series tallies are on the CC website.
A big thank you to all those who travelled from Newcastle, Sydney and even more distant places for helping to make the series a success this summer.
Newcastle have two events left in their Summer Street Series before they have a month of line courses in a Park Tour heading into the winter bush season.
Waggaroos are back in action after their first event post-Christmas was called off due to the extreme heat.
Jonathan Holland excelled at the uni campus, finding most of the 36 answers and amassing an excellent 305 out of a possible 360 points. Briohny Seaman was not far behind scoring 285 points despite her pregnancy and finishing 5 minutes under time. Pauline Moore pipped Catherine Holland for third. TRAC student Kade Mavroudis is gaining more experience with every event and did well to finish sixth.
ONSW is proud to announce an 18% increase in participation at events in 2013, taking our total annual participations above 20,000!
And when we add in participations at schools (including the rapidly expanding Active After Schools Communities program) the total is nudging 30,000.
The highlight is a pleasing 23% jump in attendance at regional club events. With new clubs formed recently on the Far North Coast and in Coffs Harbour, the future looks very bright.
Major events in NSW in 2014 are the Easter carnival at Clandulla (expected to attract 800+ each day for four days), the Anzac weekend in Lithgow (for the NSW sprint and long distance championships), the QBIII June long weekend carnival in Dubbo, and the Xmas 5-days in Sydney when we hope to see many European elites en route to Tasmania for the first round of the 2015 World Cup in early January.
Orienteering NSW is calling for nominations for the 2014 NSW Schools Team.
Up to 20 high school students - junior boys and girls (15 and under), and senior boys and girls - are selected to compete in the Australian All Schools Championships in individual and relay races.
In 2014, the squad (known as the Carbines) will travel with a manager and coach to Western Australia for a week of competition during the September/October school holidays.
Nominations close on March 15. The squad will be announced on August 17, after the NSW schools championships in Newcastle.
The selection criteria may be viewed here. Please submit your nomination to NSW selector Hilary Wood (
The coach for 2014 is Jock Davis (Big Foot) and the manager is Sally Devenish (Western Plains).
