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

Congratulations to Debbie Davey (Waggaroos, pictured) who took out first place overall at the ACT Autumn Classics weekend.

Debbie won W65A on both days and, using the OACT age/gender handicap system, was ranked first of all competitors with 247 points out of a maximum 250.

Ewan Shingler (Big Foot) cemented his place atop the Junior National League rankings by winning M20E both days, while sister Nea had a first and a second.

Other ONSW members to win both days were: Ryder Seaman (M10A, WR), Alex Woolford (M16A, Bush n Beach), Rebecca Craig (W16A, Newcastle) and Paula Shingler (W55A, BF).

Other outstanding NOL results were Alastair George (BF) second in M21E on Saturday, sister Rebecca third in W21E on Saturday, Oskar Mella (NC) third on Saturday and Briohny Seaman (WR) third in W21Sport on Sunday.

Entries close on Sunday (April 3) for our Armidale State League weekend on April 9-10 in stunning granite terrain.

This will be great practice for the national Easter carnival in Kingaroy the following weekend.

On Saturday the venue is Kooringle, 23 km west of Armidale. The terrain is a mix of open grassland and lightly forested to scrubby, rocky slopes.

On Sunday the venue is Pine Tree, 35 km west of Armidale. Terrain ranges from open farmland to fast running forest with occasional rock outcrops.

You can enter both days here. Full details can be found here.

Enter-on-the day is available on Moderate, Easy and Very Easy courses. There is also a free string course for the enjoyment of younger orienteers.

Please do not attend if you have COVID symptoms, have tested positive in past week or live with someone who has, and maintain social distancing at the check-in and finish.

An eventful Sydney Summer Series has wound up for season 31 with a terrific streetscape of the North Sydney area and a presentation dinner attended by 70 people.

Congratulations to our major award winners:
* SSS Cup - Melissa Thomas (Bennelong, pictured)

* Open Women - Melissa Thomas (Bennelong)

* Open Men - Tristan White (Garingal, pictured)
* Course of the Year - tied between Rushcutters Bay (Sue Froude) and St Ives Bungaree (Richard Pattison)

* SSS Special Award - Carol Jacobson (Garingal) for her years of setting, organising, mapping, results processing, mentoring, helper roster compilation and much more.

With the start for our 19th and final event high up in St Leonards Park by North Sydney Oval - arguably the prettiest sportsground in Australia - this meant climb at the end of your run and working out the optimal turnaround point in North Sydney, Milsons Point or Kirribilli.

New SSS co-ordinators Tristan and Ian would like to say a massive thank you to all the setters, organisers, controllers, mappers, SI teams, map printers, event volunteers, landowners and participants for their great work in continuing to ensure we run the best street/park series in the world.

Despite numerous hiccups (covid, rain, rain, rain, covid, rain) we can sleep well knowing the SSS has delivered again.

NSW has retained the OA MTBO Plaque after an Australian Championships that will long be remembered for atrocious conditions due to the big wet on the east coast.

Victoria and NSW were neck and neck in the points tally, swapping the lead after each event, but - pending official confirmation - it was the home state that came home strongly in Sunday's Long Distance race at a muddy Neath to win 121-117 overall.

Courses had recovered fairly well from the summer's La Nina drenching... until Wednesday when a further 60-80mm ruined any chance of a dry ride. By that stage all the interstate riders (from WA, Tas, Qld, Vic, ACT) were here and the carnival proceeded.

There was water at least ankle deep on pretty much every single track - and some much larger waterholes, along with lots of mud - at all four venues near Cessnock in the Hunter Valley.

Some riders were on course more than four hours for the Long on Sunday and km rates were way higher than what we would expect in drier times. So congratulations to all the competitors for slogging it out in very draining circumstances.

NSW riders to win multiple championship events over the weekend were:
* W50 Nicole Haigh (Newcastle), Carolyn Matthews (Newcastle)
* M12 Alon Gudes (Uringa)
* M50 Greg Barbour (Big Foot)
* M60 Rob Prentice (Newcastle)

NSW riders to win one championship event were:
* W12 Harriet Thompson (NC)
* M14 Kai Metcalfe (NC)
* W40 Cassandra Thompson (NC)
* M21 Tim Doman (NC)
* M60 Rob Vincent (NC)

We are indebted to the Newcastle club plus members of Big Foot for a massive effort in miserable weather - at least it wasn't cold!

The next MTBO event is the Victorian championship weekend on May 14-15, then an ACT event on May 22.

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