Orienteering NSW

Coming Events

map	Sat 2 Nov 9:30 am SOS 3 - Middle Cove Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School, 5A Glenroy Ave, Middle Cove

map	Sat 2 Nov 10:00 am Illawarra Map Running Series - Spring #3 Croome Sporting Complex John O Dwyer Oval within Croome Sporting Complex - use the northern entrance from Croome Road - most direct access to Oval.

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

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

Forty one students participated in the 2013 Riverina Schools Orienteering Championships conducted by Wagga Roos and The Riverina School Sports Association at Willans Hill on Tuesday 7 May.

Star of the day was Uranquinty Public School student Lachlan Billett.

OA High Performance Operations Manager and NSW Head Coach Nick Dent showed the rest of the field how it was done this weekend at the ACT Championships in Canberra. There were no gaps in his game with comfortable wins in the Sprint, the Middle Distance and the Long Distance. His main competition in his age category came from fellow runners from NSW with the State also posting 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the Sprint, 2nd, 4th and 5th in the Middle and 2nd, 3rd and 5th in the Long.

Nick and the men in M60A weren't the only ones with great results for NSW. Scott Simson (M40A) took home a 1st in the Sprint, as did Daniel Hill (M16A), Barbara Hill (W45A), Gayle Quantock (W50A), Robyn Pallas (W60A), Jean Baldwin (W70A), Maureen Ogilvie (W80A),Eoin Rothery (M21A), Teena Leonard (WOpenB), and Lachlan Coady (M/W10 Novice). There was similar success in the Middle and the Long as the NSW team showed their versatility across all the disciplines on what was a heavy race card weekend.

Robbie Preston will have been delighted with his Middle Distance win in M21E as these races, as well as being NOL Round 3, were also selection races for the World Championship team who will head to Finland later this year. The team decisions are still waiting on race results of trials for Australian runners in Europe, who include Julian Dent of NSW. If he is running half as well as his father in his age category, we shall look for great things from him this year.

State League 3 at Wattle Ridge at the weekend was favoured with glorious weather of cool temperatures and bright sunshine. Most competitors had taken advantage of the proximity to Sydney to travel on the day, with some of the Summer Series competitors try their first bush event. The NSW Junior Squad was out in force, with their friends from ACT who had been training with them in Canberra during the vacation. The event was perfectly placed for the juniors to develop their bush skills in what is known to be a challenging area of complex rock and sometimes thick vegetation. The event saw an innovative approach to the longest Hard courses, with multiple butterfly loops keeping the sense of urgency maintained throughout the race.

Many of the courses proved more than the challenge expected, however, with Long courses becoming somewhat Ultra Long due to some course length estimation errors and vegetation thicker than expected. Finish times in all classes blew out so that even course winners were coming back in around the 100 minute mark, with a significant number of runners well over that. Not all had problems however - Peter De Lissa, bush newby from the Summer Series, had a great run in the Moderate class tackling his first proper bush event in a little over 48 minutes to come second to Daniel Smith.

ASADA Anti-doping online courses - modification to requirements.

Following the Lance Armstrong revelations last year and the various drugs in sport in Australia revelations this year, the ASC and ASADA mandated that elite athletes in all sports should complete online education courses on the ASADA website http://www.asada.gov.au. It is also a funding agreement requirement of OA by the ASC. An update on who must do these courses, and who else it is strongly recommended do the courses, is as follows.

1) Due to IT problems with the ASADA website the due date for completion of online courses is now May 10th. If you are having IT related problems or with logging on etc please forward your queries to the ASADA Education Officer, Chris Butler - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

2) While it is desirable for all NOL and National Series participants to be educated through the online courses it is now only mandatory for:

a) all Australian elite team members - WOC, JWOC, World Games, World Cup, Bushrangers, Australian University team; Oceania W/M20 and elite teams, plus

b) all National squad members - elite, junior, MTBO or their equivalents.

c) all national team coaches and managers.

The intent is to have all regular participants in NOL / NS races at elite or M/W20 level complete the courses, especially as anyone who participates in these races can potentially be subject to drug testing. However, we do not wish to discourage participants who are older or relatively inexperienced from being able to race the occasional NOL / NS event. As an encouragement, there will be several Silva prizes awarded by random draw to NOL / NS participants who do complete the courses but are NOT required to do so.

This report by Blair Trewin, President of Orienteering Australia originally appeared on the website of Orienteering Australia

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