At the recent 46th 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 1st place overall in the senior women’s division of the Silva National Orienteering Series.
Only just over a day to enter Easter twenty10. CC inspired?
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
Only a few days to enter Easter, don’t miss Captain Compass!
So there are only a few days to enter Easter twenty10. If you don’t enter, you won’t get to hear the last episode of Captain Compass. Now you don’t want that do you?
Episode 4 of
A radio serial retelling the adventures of the most cartographically correct superhero.
Synopsis: Con Tourin, world famous American orienteer, receives correspondence from Count Pacecount. CC seeks to determine the value of X.
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.
Subscribe or take an RSS feed from the OA Channel to keep up to date on videos about orienteering. Playlists include information for beginners, event previews, SILVA National Orienteering League reports, Australia’s elite and more!
Easter twenty10 radio serial, Captain Compass ep 3
Orienteering Australia will be sending a team of up to 6 men and 6 women to participate in the 2010 Junior World Orienteering Championships in Denmark.
Any eligible orienteers who wish to be considered for selection in the team are required to nominate by 28 March. Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Junior Selection Panel, Blair Trewin, at b.trewin@bom.gov.au or 2/53 Darebin St, Heidelberg VIC 3084. Verbal nominations will not be accepted.
Full details of selection criteria and procedures are available in a separate document.
Jones (right) discusses route choices with Ewels (middle) and Round (left).
The 2010 SILVA National Orienteering League kicked off in Victoria with 3 races over the weekend.
Race 1 – Multi-loop Mass Start format
Race 1 was a mass start multi-loop race in the complex gold mining terrain at Chewton Diggings. A well planned event arena enabled spectators to see competitors at seven times during the race. Organiser, Darren Meeking from Melbourne Forest Racers, succeeded in bringing the action of the forest to the public, while Rob Lewis and course setter Simon Goddard provided expert commentary.
There were few surprises in the senior divisions, with the favourites proving too strong. Julian Dent won by a clear margin from Simon Uppill and David Shepherd who fought it out all the way to the line.
It was closer in the women’s race, but the results still finished as expected, with Kathryn Ewels just ahead of Shannon Jones and Vanessa Round.
Shepherd and Uppill are exhausted after crossing the line.
Leon Keely had a comfortable victory in the Junior Elite Men class, while Georgia Parsons (Cockatoos) surprised some with a breakthrough win in Junior Elite Women.
Despite the overnight rain and hail in Daylesford, the 18th Eureka Challenge, NOL #2 and the 2-Person NOL Mixed Relay have been run and won in the challenging goldmining terrain at Bryce’s Gully, west of Hepburn Springs. Roch Prendergast’s tough NOL Sprint course was made just that much more difficult with slippery conditions in the rocky ground in the gullies. Back from injury Julian Dent (NSW) scored a clear 3-minute win over Nugget’s Bryan Keely and Canberra’s evergreen Rob Walter. Vanessa Round showed a welcome return to form to win the Women 21- Elite. Laurina Neumann (Qld) showed her Bendigo goldfield terrain practice counted with Canberra’s Shannon Jones third. Tasmania’s Oscar Phillips (M-20E) and NSW’s Emily Prudhoe (W-20E) were both well pleased with their victories in Junior Elite race.
Eureka Orienteers organiser Blake Gordon and course setter Roch Prendergast present the awards
The Mixed Relay was a race where the lead changed with each of the 4 legs but the Stingers dynamic duo of Tracy Marsh and Julian Dent edged ahead on the last 1.8 leg to win narrowly from Shannon Jones/Grant Bluett with Susanne Casanova/Simon Uppill third. Rob Plowright’s input certainly made the courses challenging with a good mix of route choice and technical navigation.
Course Setter, Simon Goddard.Melbourne Forest Racers’ Organiser, Darren MeekingMatt Parton limps home in the background after injuring his ankle while chasing Bruce Arthur in the finish chute.Race 1 Junior Women winners Emily Prudhoe (3rd), Lilian Burrill (2nd), Georgia Parsons (1st)Elite Women take off from the mass start raceVictorian men wait for their women to return from leg 1.Race 2 Elite Men winners Walter (3rd), Dent (1st), Keely (2nd)Race 2 Elite Women winners Jones (3rd), Neumann (2nd), Round (1st)Race 2 Junior Elite Men winners Phillips (1st), Dow (2nd), Neumann (3rd)Race 2 Junior Women winners Prudhoe (1st), Burrill (2nd), Sunley (3rd)
Production of Orienteering Maps to International Sprint Map Standards in Tasmania
Background
Orienteering Tasmania is committed to building map infrastructure in 2010 within Tasmania of maps that meet the international standard for “sprint” based orienteering. Orienteering Tasmania has plans to produce at least 10 sprint maps through 2010; including three maps on the North West Coast.
Details
Interested persons should submit an expression of interest for this project, in total or in part to the Orienteering Tasmania Mapping Officer, Greg Hawthorne (mapping@tasorienteering.asn.au) by March 15 2010.
Applicants should detail their level of experience, availability and remuneration required.
Further details can be obtained from Greg via email or by phoning 0417 544 501