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The Queensland Sprint championships were contested on Sunday at Kelvin Grove Urban Village, a technical area consisting of QUT Kelvin Grove campus, and adjacent schools, colleges and shops.  A feature of all courses was long route choice legs where runners needed to avoid significant climb while deciphering tricky passageways and level changes.

There were close contests for the wins in both senior elite classes.  In M21E Kieran Sullivan (BU.Q) took a 15sec lead over Oliver Mitchell (UG.Q) at the first control, and although he extended it to 30 secs through the middle part of the course, a fast finish by Mitchell had it back to 15secs by the finish.  Kurt Neumann (EN.Q) was in the mix with one control to go, but a late mistake relegated him to 3rd.  In the womens elite course Anna Sheldon (UG.Q) took an early lead, but was steadily caught and passed by Rachel Effeney through the mid part of the course.  Effeney (UG.Q) had a 14sec lead at the penultimate control, but in a late surge Sheldon fought back for a 30sec win.  Brea Pearce (EV.T) ran up into W21E to take 3rd.

Recently selected Australian Junior MTBO team member Chris Firman (EN.Q) took victory in M20E from Oliver Crosato (RR.Q) and Aaron Breed (UG.Q).  W20E was won by impressive newcomer Heather Muir (EN.Q), with Brooke Pye (TF.Q) 2nd and Emily Cantwell (UG.Q) 3rd.

Elite and age group results are available at –

Results

Splits

The following meetings are being held in conjunction with the Easter carnival this weekend. Everyone is most welcome to attend the OA Annual General Meeting on Sunday afternoon and those orienteers interested in development, technical issues, IT, mapping and coaching to attend the Development Forum and the committee meetings on these topics on Friday afternoon.

Easter Friday, 2 April at Sports House, 100 Maitland St, Hackett ACT
Meeting room 1:
3.30 – 4.40: Technical; 4.45 – 6.00:  IT
Meeting room 2:
3.30 – 6.00: Development Forum to exchange information and discuss development activities that are working well, a national marketing plan, a national sponsorship of an orienteering day in November, and other development planning
Kitchen meeting room:
3.30 – 4.30:  Schools (for state school team managers and coaches); 4.45 – 6.00:  Mapping
OA office:
5.00 – 6.00: Coaching

Easter Sunday, 4 April at Sports House, 100 Maitland St, Hackett ACT
3pm Annual General Meeting

Apologies for the delay in getting this episode out to you. It took a little longer to fix Captain Compass’s invisible jet than anticipated.

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Episode 6 of

A radio serial retelling the adventures of the most cartographically correct superhero.

Synopsis: The Crucial Episode. Captain Compass and his team try to decipher the evil plot, whilst the full extent of Count Pacecount’s plot dawns on Con Tourin.

Two episodes will be released each week, leaving the grand final release for the Easter twenty10 event. You can catch up on all the latest by clicking the Captain Compass menu item on the Easter twenty10 homepage – http://aus3days2010.orienteering.asn.au/

So if you don’t enter, you won’t hear it. Don’t miss out! Enter now.
And stay tuned.

Wendy Read has officially been appointed as new Australian Bushrangers Coach and Assistant Coach for WOC 2010.

Wendy did a fantastic job as Media reporter at WOC 2009 and the team really enjoyed her input. She has also been a keen member and manager of the Queensland Cyclones for many years.

Orienteering Australia would like to thank David Shepherd for the work he has done with the Bushrangers over the last few years.

Wendy’s Bio

Profession:  Teacher –  Head of Curriculum

Level 2 Coach – Orienteering. A keen participant in orienteering  for almost 20 years and is a member of Ugly Gully Orienteers. Since 1996 has been involved in orienteering coaching, management and administration at junior and senior elite level.

• Queensland School’s Orienteering Team Manager  / Coach  (1995-2003)
• School Sport Australia National Secretary – Orienteering  (1999 – 2005)
• Australian Schools Orienteering Team Manager (2005)
• Queensland Cyclones Orienteering Team Manager (2006 -2010)

First represented Queensland Cyclones in 2003. Selected to represent  Australia in ANZ Challenges in 2002, 2003 & 2006 (W35), and  also as a member of the Bushrangers Team in 2004. Competed in numerous major overseas events – from the delights of Tornio above the Arctic Circle in Finland, to the horrors of Naseby in New Zealand.

Other interests include road cycling, adventure racing and rogaining, and playing the piano or guitar when the body’s had enough.

Australian orienteers are invited to run on the 2005 WOC maps in the 2nd Asian Orienteering Championships in Japan from 30.4.2010 to 5.5.2010 (see www.orienteering.asia, with entries closing on 31 March) and in Kainuu Orienteering Week in Finland from 5-10.7.2010 (seehttp://www.rastiviikko.fi).

The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) and Australian Government Office for Women (OfW) are looking to develop more Australian women in leadership and decision making roles in sport.

Applications are now open for the 2010–11 round of the ASC and OfW’s Sports Leadership Grants and Scholarships for Women.

These Australian Government grants and scholarships are offered to inspire and assist women in the sports industry to reach their full potential in leadership, through education and development opportunities.

The ASC invites women from all areas and levels of the Australian sports community to apply, including women involved in sport as managers, administrators, media and communication officers, coaches, officials, and women in sport governance.

Women from culturally diverse backgrounds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, women in rural and regional areas and women with disability are encouraged to apply.

The grants include scholarships for women in upper sports management of up to $10,000 a year for three years, one-off grants of up to $5,000 for individuals and up to $10,000 for approved organisations.

Last year’s grants supported 132 projects across the country in developing women’s leadership skills in their sport. Now in its ninth year, these grants have supported more than 16,000 women around Australia.

Applications close on Friday 30 April 2010. Terms and conditions apply.

For more information, visit www.ausport.gov.au/women  or call 1800 224 412

At the recent 46^th annual Tasmanian Sports Awards, Christine Brown of Launceston’s Esk Valley club received the award for the most outstanding Tasmanian sports official for 2009. The award was a well deserved recognition of Christine’s efforts locally, nationally and internationally for her voluntary work as Orienteering Tasmania Technical Director, her contributions to her club’s event program, her contributions to Australian orienteering as a jury member and event adviser, her work as the International Orienteering Federation Senior Event Adviser for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) and as a Technical Adviser at the 2009 Deaflympics also held in Taiwan (Chinese Taipei).

Picture: Mike Dowling, Christine Brown and Paul Pacque at the Awards.

In addition, to Christine’s nomination, Hanny Allston of Hobart’s Wellington Ranges club was a finalist in the Female Athlete of the Year category for her gold and silver medals at the 2009 World Games and for her 1^st place overall in the senior women’s division of the Silva National Orienteering Series.

There is only just over a day to enter Easter twenty 10.

If this Captain Compass episode doesn’t inspire you to enter, remembering you won’t hear the finale if you are not there, then I am afraid you are a lost cause (excuse the pun).

Episode 5 of

A radio serial retelling the adventures of the most cartographically correct superhero.

Synopsis: Captain Compass is off with the superheroes and Con Tourin negotiates a deal with Count PaceCount.

Two episodes will be released each week, leaving the grand final release for the Easter twenty10 event. You can catch up on all the latest by clicking the Captain Compass menu item on the Easter twenty10 homepage – http://aus3days2010.orienteering.asn.au/

So if you don’t enter, you won’t hear it. Don’t miss out! Enter now.
And stay tuned.

The Australian Sports Commission is the major sponsor of Orienteering Australia. As part of the funding agreement, OA undertakes to assist the ASC in promoting initiatives to develop sport in Australia. These include the following.

Play by The Rules

The Play by The Rules website at http://www.playbytherules.net.au/ has information for clubs and sporting organisations on harassment, ethics, and discrimination policies and legislation, model member protection policies and free online training in a number of these areas. The OA Member Protection policies are based on the ASC’s model protection policies; there is additional useful detail on Play by The Rules on topics such as recommended arrangements for group trips away.

All Cultures program

 On 21 March it is Harmony Day. Sports Minister Kate Ellis said, ‘New migrants are two-thirds less likely to participate in sport than other Australians and that’s a real shame. They are missing out and sport as a whole is missing out. We want to make sure that people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds can reap the lifelong health and social benefits of sport’.

The ASC has set up an All Cultures website at www.ausport.gov.au/participating/all_cultures to provide resources to assist development officers and others visiting schools and community groups where they may be able to encourage people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to try orienteering.

Our Sporting Future Conference

The ASC will be holding Australia’s leading sports forum, Our Sporting Future, from 28–30 July 2010 at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre. OSF 2010 will provide an in-depth analysis of the business of sport, with real examples of successful sports business models. Participants will have the opportunity to examine the sustainability of sport and how it can meet any current and future challenges. The program will explore new thinking, risk taking and innovation in the development of sports policy to effect change.

There will also be topical panel discussions that address current issues in Australian sport, stimulate new ideas, challenge current ways of thinking, and provide practical information that can be applied to sporting organisations. More details are at http://www.ausport.gov.au/about/events/our_sporting_future_2010