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Congratulations to Barbara Dawson (Garingal) who has won Orienteering Australia's Silva Award for Services to Coaching.
Barbara has done long-term work in schools in NSW and at local club events, and contributed to the National Schools Kit Project.
She has also been a stalwart at the River and Bay Series as the lead coach for newcomers and in helping other club members in instructing first-timers.
This award caps a big six months for Barbara who won the Cox's Cup (ONSW Encouragement Award) in 2021.
Seventeen orienteers from 10 NSW clubs won their age classes overall at the big national Easter carnival in Queensland, where long grass made for tricky navigation.
The carnival was an outstanding success, with more than 600 entries.
In the elite classes, Ewan Shingler (Big Foot, pictured) won M20E, sister Nea was second in W20E, clubmate Alastair George was an impressive second in M21E, and Sam Woolford (Bush n Beach) was likewise a fantastic second in M20E.
Congratulations to our Easter class winners:
Two of our incredible members - Gill Fowler and Melissa Robertson - have excelled in gruelling endurance races at the weekend.
Gill (Big Foot, pictured) won the women's 40-49 age class at the inaugural kunanyi Mountain Run in Hobart and was sixth fastest woman overall.
The 68km course was limited to 200 pre-qualifying participants and included a phenomenal 4km of climb, and Gill got home in 10h12m.
Over in South Australia, Melissa (Central Coast) won the Irrational South 200 miler (320km) and set a new female race record of 62h3m.
That's seven and a half marathons! Unsurprisingly, there were only 40 entrants.
Congratulations to both women!
Long grass made for slow times at the Armidale State League weekend that served as a great tune-up for the national Easter carnival in Queensland.
The summer's big wet has turned countryside that last year was bone dry into tall fields that significantly reduced visibility and speed as a result.
Wins that caught our eye at the Middle Distance on Saturday were by Stephanie Dun (HOGs) in W Junior B and Lachlan Coady (WHO) in M14A.
In the Long Distance on Sunday, Sheralee Bailey (Bennelong) beat Jenny Enderby (Newcastle) by 11 minutes in W50A, Will Kay (WHO) took out M16A and Andrew Dun (HOGs) won M Open B.
A big thank you to Northern Tablelands for their efforts over the weekend.
You can see all the results, splits and Livelox on our State League page. You can see the updated OY scores here.
Please fill out the very brief Course Setter of the Year survey for each day.
The next SL events are at Wyangala Dam and Roseberg SF on May 14-15.
