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Newcastle couple Damien and Jenny Enderby have been named as manager and assistant coach of the NSW Schools Team for the 2018 Australian championships in South Australia.
The Enderbys have been orienteering for decades and older daughter Mikayla last year made the schools team.
ONSW congratulates Damien and Jenny on their appointments.
Big Foot teenager Lucy Mackie has been named Orienteering Australia's athlete of the year for her stunning performances at the last year's MTBO world championships.
Lucy, pictured far left, won silver in the Middle Distance and was 7th in the Long in Lithuania, serving notice to the Europeans of her prowess. Her award was announced at the recent Easter carnival in Tasmania.
Congratulations also go to Garingal couple Ron and Barbara Junghans, who won the Silva Award for Services to Orienteering. The Sydneysiders have been at the heart of all things O for close on 40 years. This lifelong dedication culminated in Barbara organising last year's Australian championships at Bathurst and Hill End.
The Junghans also took out the ONSW President's Award in 2017.
The Silva Award for Services to Coaching went to Queensland's Wendy Read. Wendy has served as National Senior Coach/Manager for Australia and has taken the team to WOC many times. She has also been Bushrangers Coach, and at Qld level she managed the Cyclones for many year. Congratulations Wendy on a well-deserved award.
Bob Mouatt won the David Hogg Medal for Services to Event Management.
Our Newcastle club is putting on free events this weekend as part of our expansion into the Upper Hunter Valley.
Saturday is a park-street event at Singleton Heights (N end of Nowland Park) from 1230-1430, similar to the ones we conducted last November.
Sunday is a bush event at Belford National Park from 9-11.30am. There will be courses catering for all levels of experience.
All details can be found on the flyer.
Our junior squad camps are a fantastic opportunity for juniors to learn new skills, brush up on others, and improve their techniques in a terrific atmosphere.
Our next camp is at Armidale from April 18-20. This is during the school holidays, and coincides with our NSW championships that weekend (April 21-22).
This camp is open to all juniors from NSW, Qld and the ACT who are seeking to do or currently do Moderate and/or Hard courses. Entries close Friday April 13.
However, we will also offer coaching for students in Years 5-6 who are currently doing Easy courses. These will be shorter group sessions and will require a parent or parents to be present.
Students and coaches will stay at New England Girls School throughout the camp. These are always very popular occasions, so please enter via Eventor before this camp books out!
Students who have nominated for the NSW Schools team are expected to attend the camp and compete at the NSW championships.
