Author: craigf

Orienteering Australia is pleased to announce the team for the World University Orienteering Championships to be held in Finland in July. Each country gets four places in each individual race and athletes nominated the events they were interested in.
The team is:
Men
Andrew Barnett (Middle, Long, Relay)
Aidan Dawson (Sprint, Sprint Relay, Relay2)
Matt Doyle (Sprint, Middle, Long, Relay)
Angus Haines (Sprint, Long, Relay2)
Henry McNulty (Sprint, Sprint Relay, Middle, Relay)
Toby Wilson (Middle, Long, Relay2)
Women
Michele Dawson (Sprint, Sprint Relay, Long, Relay)
Anna Dowling (Relay2)
Caroline Pigerre (Middle, Long, Relay)
Olivia Sprod (Sprint, Middle, Long, Relay2)
Asha Steer (Sprint, Middle, Relay2)
Lanita Steer (Sprint, Sprint Relay, Middle, Long, Relay)

The team is provisional as Australian University Sports needs to endorse the team and verify that each athlete meets the university eligibility criteria. WUOC has become a prestigious event helping bridge the gap between JWOC and WOC so congratulations to all athletes.

We are about half way through NOL events for the 2018 season. Simon Uppill (SA) won all four events at Easter pulling away from Brodie Nankervis (Tas) in the Senior Men. The Senior Women are much closer with Tash Key (Vic) holding a narrow lead over Easter winner Belinda Lawford (ACT). Aston Key continues to dominate the Junior Men while Tara Melhuish keeps her lead in the Junior Women.

Victoria is winning both senior teams categories from the Canberra Cockatoos, who also lead the junior categories.

Standings after event 8 are HERE.

Orienteering Australia today offered the following athletes a place in the 2018 Australian Team to the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Hungary in July.
The selected athletes are:
Girls: Rachel Allen, Zoe Dowling, Tara Melhuish, Zoe Melhuish, Caroline Pigerre, Asha Steer;
Boys: Joe Dickenson, Alistair George, Angus Haines, Patrick Jaffe, Aston Key, Patrick Miller.
Congratulations to you all.

As indicated in the AGM and other Easter meetings schedules posted Blair Trewin, it is planned to hold IT and Participation & Development sessions. These will be held at Domain Athletics Centre, Hobart in Room 3. The IT session will start at 4:00pm, and the Participation & Development session start at 5:00pm.

At the December 2017 OA Conference it was apparent that some States had developed API’s for use with Eventor. OA believes that other States would be interested in these API’s and would like to use the Easter meeting sessions to showcase the technology in use by some States. If your State has developed any API’s or other technology (e.g. entry processes, results processes, membership processes) that eases the administrative burden on volunteers do you have anyone attending the Easter 3 day competition that could present their State’s technology?

At the December 2017 OA Conference States were given the opportunity through their attendees to present their ASC Participation related projects. The Participation and Development meeting is being conducted to give States the opportunity of having those members more directly involved with their ASC projects to (a) present in more detail their own past and current projects, and (b) to hear about the projects other states consider as being successful.

As the organisers of the Oceania 2019 Carnival, OACT have put in place the following embargoes.

Orienteers shall not enter the embargoed areas without permission from the OACT Board. For further information please contact the OACT Office.

The following embargoes are currently in place:

Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga campus [until 6 Oct 2019]
Gardiners Lookout/Winona [until 6 Oct 2019]
Connorton, Pomingalarna and Kildare Catholic College [until 6 Oct 2019]
The whole of the existing Kangaroo Crossing map as well as adjoining bush land to the east and north. This includes bushland to the south of Woolshed Rd and bushland on either side of Masons Road [until 6 Oct 2019]
The Barambogie South map. This includes areas bounded by Barambogie Road, East Triangle Rd, Mt Barambogie Rd and Settlers Track [until 6 Oct 2019]