Latest ONSW News
Orienteering NSW is continuing the Active Kids Rebate program in partnership with the NSW government.
This scheme provides two $100 vouchers to parents/guardians of school-enrolled children. They can be used for registration and participation costs for sport and fitness activities.
Students who choose orienteering as a sport have two options for their 2020 voucher:
* entry to 15 local events (inc SI stick hire if required)
* entry to 10 SOS events (inc SI stick hire if required)
Please note you must be a member of ONSW to claim, and the above options cannot be mixed.
You can claim one voucher for all of 2020, and the second one from July 1.
For further information, see the NSW government fact sheet and the ONSW information sheet.
Come and enjoy a fun weekend of orienteering training in the Southern Highlands on February 21-23.
This camp is being put on by our coach-in-residence Alastair George along with ACT counterpart Fryderyk Pryjma.
Everyone is welcome to attend. The camp will focus on the development of sprint and bush orienteering skills in preparation for the autumn season. The bush orienteering trainings will offer hard and easy courses - moderate level orienteers are encouraged to challenge themselves on the hard courses.
More details are in the information flyer. Please register on Eventor by Sunday 16 February.
Due to the bushfires, we are still awaiting final confirmation of locations, which will be roughly 1 hour 40 minutes from Canberra and Sydney.
Melissa Robertson and Mark Schaefer have taken out the Central Coast summer series after the final event on a new map at Forresters Beach on Sunday.
Melissa bagged a perfect 600 from her six best scores, while Mark finished with 598 points.
There was again a separate table based on handicaps, and Garingal's Elizabeth Bulman tied with Suzanne Bramford (CC). The men's section went to Lachlan Harris (CC).
You can find the final tallies here and the results page here.
A big thank you to all the mappers, setters, controllers and organisers.
Central Coast's next event is the annual O'Shea 2-Days weekend on Feb 29-Mar 1. Details are in Eventor. This features three runs in 18 hours. Cake prizes are for the best-performed pairs, but you can also enter solo, and for 1, 2 or all 3 events.
Our popular Saturday Orienteering Series is going 3D this term to take navigation to a whole new level!
Run by our partner organisation Bold Horizons, the SOS is a big hit with beginners and experienced orienteers alike.
Term 1 starts at Killara High School this Saturday and the long course will have controls on all levels of the buildings. The challenge is to work out how to get from a control on one level of a building to the next control on a different level of another or the same building.
It's mind-boggling fun. See here for an example of a map (Facebook photo).
The following week (Feb 15) the SOS starts up a parallel series in the Macarthur region of south-west Sydney. First up is Mawarra Public School, the multiple champions at our annual Sydney South West Primary Schools champs.
Season tickets are available, and the SOS accepts Active Kids vouchers.
