Orienteering NSW

Coming Events

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 Robina Park (between Robina & Cynthia Crescents)

map	Fri 8 Nov 5:30 pm Goldseekers Park #2 - Gosling Creek Gosling Creek

map	Sat 9 Nov 9:30 am SOS 4 - St Leonards Gore Hill Oval, 209 Pacific Highway, St Leonards. Meet by the oval car park and playground.

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

map	Sun 10 Nov 4:00 pm River and Bay Series #3 - Canterbury The Gallops, Tasker park, Phillips Avenue Canterbury

map	Mon 11 Nov 7:30 pm Learn to Orienteer coaching information session

map	Wed 13 Nov 4:30 pm 2024/25 Sydney Summer Series #6 - Camperdown Memorial Rest Park, Camperdown.

Big Foot have wrapped up another Division 1 MetrO League title with a round to spare, after hosting a brilliant day out at Lapstone.

The Darks Common map is one of the best in our Sydney club competition, offering a tough enough challenge for experienced orienteers while throwing in plenty of tracks, catching features and attackpoints to assist newcomers.

Division 3 held the most intrigue. Knox had two matches to play; winning just one might have meant a finals berth. Alas, undermanned, they lost both, to leave SHOO-IKO to face Bennelong in the decider at Boggabilla on August 26.

Knox are the only club out of 9 not to feature in the finals.

Uringa-Central Coast face the undefeated Big Foot in Division 2 and WHO in Division 5, while the two Garingal teams face off in Division 4 after recording comfortable wins.

Big Foot had Division 1, which runs on a first-past-the-post basis, in the bag after SHOO-IKO upset a depleted Garingal team missing its three World Uni Champs reps.

All the match scores and individual points tables have been updated on our ML web page.

A big thanks to Big Foot for a super morning. Andy Simpson notes: "Thanks to the competitor who found an old control out there - it has a flat battery, but once we have replaced that we might be able to figure out which event it was from, if it still works."

A heatwave has made competition very tough at the World Uni champs in Finland.

Temperatures in the range of 33-35C - plus humidity - took their toll in the Middle Distance on Wednesday.

Garingal's Toby Wilson finished 62nd, more than 23 minutes off the pace, as the Scandinavians fared best in familiar but vague terrain. It was very rough going underfoot.

Organisers were giving brief cold showers as runners finished (see pic).

The champs opened on Tuesday with a Sprint Relay. The Australian team came a creditable 14th, with GO siblings Aidan and Michele Dawson anchoring the four-person team.

The individual Sprint is later today (Thu) and a cool change is expected for Friday's Long Distance event and Saturday's Relays.

You can follow all the action via the event website.

Students from seven of our clubs are in the 2018 NSW Schools team (the Carbines) for the Australian championships in South Australia in the September-October holidays.

There are five new faces in the girls' ranks: Tshinta Hopper (Bennelong) in the senior girls; plus Niamh Cassar (WHO), Iida Lehtonen (Garingal, pictured) and Big Foot twins Louisa and Julia Barbour who are in the juniors girls' team. The sole new face among the boys is Jamie Woolford (Bush n Beach) as a reserve in the juniors.

A team of 20 has been selected, the maximum allowed. Travelling reserves are a part of the team and will compete in all the same races. However, their results do not count towards the interstate competition.

The strong family element of orienteering is reflected in there being four sets of siblings in the team.

Congratulations to the following students upon their selection:

Senior Girls: Claire Burgess (NC), Ellen Currie (GO), Serena Doyle (UR), Tshinta Hopper (BN)

Senior Boys: Duncan Currie (GO), Alastair George (BF), Ewan Shingler (BF), Oscar Woolford (BB). Reserve: Angus Leung (GO)

Junior Girls: Niamh Cassar (WH), Mikayla Enderby (NC), Iida Lehtonen (GO), Nea Shingler (BF). Reserves: Julia Barbour (BF), Louise Barbour (BF)

Junior Boys: Alvin Craig (NC), Clyde McGhee (BN), Oskar Mella (NC), Sam Woolford (BB). Reserve: Jamie Woolford (BB)

All selected will travel with the team to SA and run in the three schools championship events from October 1-3 (Sprint, Individual and Relay), while also competing in the other major events on both weekends of the carnival.

Manager Damian Enderby will be in contact with team members to co-ordinate travelling arrangements.

ONSW thanks selectors Jock Davis, Hilary Wood and Rob Bennett for their time and energy spent in this important role, and to the Carbine Club for their generous financial support.

"The selectors congratulate the team and wish them well for all their races. It was also great to see so many contending for the team and we hope those who missed out this time will keep trying."

A reminder that entries to the NSW Sprint Champs close this Wednesday (July 18).

The awesome UNSW map is a densely built university campus with a varied landscape and architecture. There are many staircases, passageways and canopies. It will be intense navigation and a great challenge regardless of your speed.

All controls will be Air+ enabled so bring your SIAC stick if you have one.

Please note that there will be no Very Easy course - but parents are welcome to shadow children in the 10A classes around the Easy course. Please do this after you have run your own course.

Enter-on-day will be available on Hard, Moderate and Easy courses.

Don't forget this event offers double points in the Orienteer of the Year standings.

We look forward to an exciting day of Sprint orienteering on Sunday July 29.

Meanwhile, our Newcastle club started their preparations for the champs with a weekend of four sprints.

Saturday saw events at St Philips College, Nulkaba and Kurri Kurri TAFE. Sunday it was closer to town, with both races at Heaton PS/Callaghan College Campus.

Points were awarded for placings, rather cumulative times, and a person's best three scores counted. When the numbers were crunched, all four winners were from the host club:

Women's Boxers (shorter course) – Erika Enderby
Women's Boardies (longer course) – Jenny Enderby
Mens's Boxers – Kendall O'Connor
Mens' Boardies – Rob Bennett (pictured)