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Salme Fuller is one of ONSW's hard-working coaches delivering orienteering to primary students as part of the Australian Sports Commission's Active After-Schools Communities program in the Illawarra region. Salme's 7-week programs are very popular with the students and she is often asked to come back to sites for repeat visits. In recognition of her outstanding efforts over the past four years of the AASC program, Salme has received the highest commendation - a 5-star coaching award. Read about Salme's award in the Illawarra Mercury here.
Whilst runners at the NOSH were battling the elements, further south the weather was better for MTBO enthusiasts tackling the Super Series #2 & #3 at Belanglo and Penrose State Forests. Graeme Oddy did a great job in his debut as an MTBO course setter for both days and will have learnt much from the very different forests and event conditions experienced over the weekend. Saturday weather was perfect for racing, and everything went much as planned. By Saturday evening that had all changed and with some significant rainfall overnight the organisers were concerned that the event might have to be postponed. However, there was enough clear weather for the forest to dry out enough to race and with some last minute changes to the start and length of the courses the MTBO competitors were off. Winners over the combined events were:
Course W3 Carolyn Mathews
Course M1 Eric Charpentier
Course M2 Darius Cartwright
Course M3 Wayne Bajenoff
Course M4 Graham Fowler
Over 300 runners competed in the 39th NOSH run around Middle Harbour on Sunday. Battling torrential rain and streams in flood, the intrepid runners weaved their 15.4km way around trails, roads and bridges from Linfield Oval to Seaforth Oval. Despite the rain, there were some quick times, with Matty Abel winning the 18-39yr group in 68.09 mins. clocking a speed of 4.18 mins.km. Geoffrey Berkly was not far behind coming in 2nd overall, and 1st in the 40-49 yr age group in 70.53mins. Phoebe Savage was the first women home in 82.14mins, with Barbara Hill in 2nd overall and winning the 40-49 in 84.12mins. Provisional results are available here. Pictures from the event, taken with a very wet camera, can be found here.
The WaggaRoos orienteering event scheduled for tomorrow Sunday June 2 has been cancelled.
The owner of the property has expressed concern about potential damage to the farm tracks given the rain received over the past two days and forecast for the rest of the weekend.
Waggaroos are looking at the possibility of rescheduling the event for Sunday July 7. John Oliver will advise on this in due course
