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It's that time of year when we ask junior members aged 15 and under to fill out participation diaries for 2020.
Due to covid wiping out four months of the calendar, we are extending the window for events to be counted from Oct 7, 2019 to November 30, 2020.
Wendy McConaghy (Garingal) is co-ordinating the junior participation awards this year. Please fill out the attached diary for any juniors in your household aged 15 or younger and return it to Wendy by Tue Dec 1.
We thank Kristie Carroll (SHOO) for doing this job the past two years.
We are happy to release the final versions of two legacy videos from the wonderful Australian Championships carnival at Hill End and Bathurst in 2017.
These videos were funded via a grant from Sport NSW with the theme "what is orienteering?".
One is pitched to appeal to all ages and the other to younger people.
We thank Toph Naunton for putting them together, along with carnival organiser Barbara Junghans and recently retired Board member Michael Ridley-Smith for their oversight of the project.
The Young and Free video can be found here.
The All Ages video can be found here.
Members and clubs are encouraged to share these videos among friends to help promote orienteering.
Our elite NSW Stingers are seeking a coach for 2021.
The Coach should attend National Orienteering League events (expected to be 4 weekends per year), providing guidance and feedback to Stingers team members.
They should organise and conduct group training events (prefer at least 1 weekend per year) and assist individual team members with their training and event preparation.
They must have:
* a current Working with Children check (WWCC)
* at least Level 1 OA Coaching Accreditation
It is preferred that they have:
* or are working towards at least Level 2 OA Coaching Accreditation
* experience as a coach or competitor at elite orienteering level, e.g. JWOC/WOC
ONSW is willing to support the person appointed to the position by reimbursing them for reasonable costs of travel to & accommodation at NOL events outside of NSW or ACT.
Persons interested in undertaking this role for 2021 should contact ONSW Coaching Director Jamie Kennedy on 0435 049 395 or
Orienteering has lost another tremendous servant with the passing of Terry Murphy.
Terry was Uringa secretary from 1984-88, president from 1995-98, and an inaugural Board member from 2019-2020 after the club incorporated. Terry was instrumental in preparing the new club constitution as part of the incorporation process. He also represented the club as a delegate to ONSW (1986-1989, 1993-1994).
He organised, on behalf of Uringa, the Australian Orienteering Championships at Yuruga in 1999 (especially meritorious as he would have been holding down an onerous professional job at the time). He was known to ensure that others could get their run at an event, whatever the impact on him.
Terry had a great love for all sports. He served time on the NRL Judiciary and was often seen in blue – Sydney FC, or yellow – Wallabies.
His time in orienteering goes way back to the foundations of our sport: he wrote the original constitution of Orienteering NSW in 1987 and was a board member from 1986-88.
Terry and family were always out and about with everything O had to offer, local events, SSS, State Leagues, Metro’s, National events - and of course overseas.
He was a Sydney Summer Series original, joining the inaugural programme in 1991 (he was on the paddock for events 3, 4 & 5), and running and (later) organising events in every season since.
Terry & Helen planned the first Uringa SSS event (at Homebush Bay in January 1996) and often appeared on Ross Barr's 'Yellow Sheet’ in subsequent years. Their event last season at Exile Bay would no doubt have had The Magistrate looking over Helen’s shoulder.
Our thoughts go out to Helen, Catherine, Clare and Patrick and their families and the wider Murphy clan.
