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JUNIOR NATIONAL LEAGUE

South Australia Easter Carnival photo albums by John Harding:

http://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/3-April-2015-Easter-Prologue/

http://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/4-April-2015-Day-1-Easter-3/

http://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/5-April-2015-day-2-Easter-3/

http://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/6-April-2015-day-3-Easter-3/

Presentations on day 3:

http://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/6-April-2015-Easter-3-Day/

OA AGM and presentation of annual awards at the dinner:

http://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/5-April-2015-OA-AGM/

Tony Hill’s photo gallery:

http://tonyhill.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/2015-Australian-3-Days-South-A/

Orienteering Australia has produced a Course Outline for a Level O Coach accreditation training course and an outline of the process for teachers (primary and secondary), sports coaches, community and recreational people to be able to obtain a Level O Coach Certificate.

Level O coach Accreditation- Nick revised 1-4-15

JUNIOR ELITES

Sad news from Orienteering Victoria:

Robyn Cameron died suddenly at home in Wodonga last Friday night (27^th March), aged 71. Until the last few years when accumulated health issues intervened, Robyn and husband Hugh had been very active members of AWOC for over 25 years, initially living in Jindera (north of Albury), then Yackandandah and most recently Wodonga.  Prior to this, Robyn & Hugh were prominent members of Central Coast Orienteers in NSW for many years.

A keen competitor, Robyn was a regular placegetter and sometimes winner of her age class in Australian & State orienteering championships. She represented Australia on several occasions in ANZ Challenges.  In 1984 she won a day at O-ringen in Sweden, one of her most treasured orienteering memories.

Robyn’s course setting experience and expertise meant that she came to know Mt Pilot, Donkey Hill, Magenta Mine and Beechworth in the north-east of Victoria like her own backyard. In addition, she was a strong supporter of the women’s coaching program in Victoria.

Following a kidney transplant, Robyn won gold and silver medals in athletics and cycling at the 1999 World Transplant Games in Budapest, Hungary.

Robyn provided great support over the years to Hugh in his roles as OA President and IOF Vice President. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last year and Hugh will miss her immensely. Our deepest sympathy is extended to Hugh (hcameron@albury.net.au), children Simon and Melinda, and their partners and children. It was Robyn’s wish that there be no funeral.

BM

The Australian Government in May 2014 announced a new $100 million project over two and a half years called Sporting Schools (SS) to replace the Active After Schools Care (AASC) program which ceased in December 2014. Sporting Schools is to commence in July 2015 and orienteering is included among 32 sports to be offered to the 8,000 primary schools in Australia. Each school would receive funding to have 4 to 7 lessons per sport for, on average, 2 sports for 3 school terms each year. See https://sportingschools.gov.au/

The Australian Sports Commission is providing Orienteering Australia with a grant of $80,000 in 2015 for capacity building to implement Sporting Schools orienteering nationally and in each state and territory. Most of this funding is being provided to state associations for implementation tasks including training many more coaches and mappers, running professional development coach training for teachers, teaching orienteering lesson plans, and responding to requests from schools for mapping and a series of lessons.  However, there is also a substantial workload at the national level in ongoing liaison with the ASC and state associations, providing national website resources, issuing coach certificates, maintaining new coach databases and validating to the ASC the credentials of persons registering as SS orienteering coaches, and progress and accountability reporting to the ASC.

Orienteering Australia is therefore seeking to employ an enthusiastic part-time Administrative Support Manager for up to 12 months to share the Sporting Schools workload and some of the day-to-day running of the OA office with the OA Executive Officer. The successful applicant will be an experienced orienteer who will have experience in providing orienteering lessons in schools (or an equivalent teaching background), have strong website and social media skills, excellent verbal and written communication, and be able to work very well in a team with OA paid staff, ASC staff, state and territory contact officers, and teachers and parents making inquiries from schools.  Availability to work in the OA National office will be an advantage. Applications should address these attributes and include 2 referees.

Remuneration is $30 per hour plus superannuation and workers compensation insurance coverage. Initially there is a catch up workload of 2 days per week; this will decline to 1 day per week later in the year.

Contact John Harding at orienteering@netspeed.com.au or on 0427 107 033 or during the Easter 3 Days for further information. Applications close on Friday 17 April.

Embargoed areas near Ballarat for the 2015 Australian Championships Carnival and the 2015 Australian Secondary Schools Championships:

Please alert your club/team members. Enquiries, or to notify any suspected transgressions: markhennessy@bigpond.com or mobile 0419 559 129.

The areas embargoed as at March 2015 are set out below. The only circumstances under which these might change is if a mapped area becomes unavailable, which is unlikely at this stage.

The whole of the Creswick Forest between the  Invermay – White Swan Road and the Creswick – Bungaree Road is embargoed until Sunday 4 October 2015. This includes, but is not limited to, old maps called Slaty Creek, Cotty Creek, Petticoat Gully, Creswick Diggings and White Swan. Note that Nerrina/Little Bendigo and St Georges Lake are NOT embargoed. However, potential competitors in 2015 Australian Championships should be very careful not to stray across those roads named above, into the embargoed areas. The roads themselves are not embargoed.

Borhoney Ghurk Common, namely the stand-alone section of the Lal Lal State Forest south of Mount Doran and west of the West Moorabool River is embargoed until Monday 5 October 2015. This does NOT include Bungal State Forest, as labeled on Melway X911 C3 (2012 Edition), mapped for orienteering variously as Bunjil, Bungal and Long Forest (near Long Forest Road).

Mount Helen Campus of Federation University is embargoed until after the Schools Sprint Race on Monday afternoon 28 September 2015. No formal or informal orienteering training or practice should take place on the campus. Anyone intending to participate in the Australian Schools Championships should avoid the campus completely, unless they are an enrolled student of the University attending university activities or facilities in their role as a student of the university. The Canadian Forest north of Greenhills Road is NOT embargoed and may provide training opportunities for sprint orienteering (Mount Clear Secondary College) and bush orienteering.

Deep Creek, being the southern section of the Sandon Forest, including Deep Creek Road and the section of forest between Deep Creek Road and Creswick – Newstead Road is embargoed until after the Australian Schools Relay Championships on  Wednesday 30 October (except for participation in the Australian Schools Individual Championship and the Public Event on Tuesday 29 September 2015). No potential participant in the Australian Schools Championships should travel along Deep Creek Road by vehicle, bicycle, or on foot, or enter the forest south of the Creswick – Newstead Road. A Victorian State Series event will be held at Sandon on Sunday 17 May 2015, north of the Creswick – Newstead Road. This will provide an opportunity to experience similar terrain to Deep Creek. Competitors in that event who stick to the line of their course on the day and do not run off the map for that event will NOT breach the embargo.

St Patrick’s College Ballarat is embargoed. No formal or informal orienteering training or practice should take place on the campus. Anyone intending to participate in the 2015 Australian Sprint Championships should avoid the campus completely, unless they are an enrolled student of the College attending school activities or facilities in their role as a student of the College, or unless they are on other official College business. Contact Eureka Orienteers for suggestions for sprint training near Ballarat.

Mark Hennessy, Convenor, Bush Orienteering Committee, Orienteering Victoria

markhennessy@bigpond.com or mobile 0419 559 129.

The next entry deadline for the World Masters Orienteering Championships 2015 to be organized in Gothenburg, Sweden is approaching: it is still possible to enter with the 70 EUR accreditation fee until 31 March! Please see the related news article on IOF website at http://orienteering.org/next-entry-deadline-for-world-masters-approaching/

Blair Trewin advises that PWT Travel are running a charter flight from WMOC to the Scottish 6-Days. The first flight is full but a second one is being put on. He can supply contact details of the person he dealt with at PWT Travel if anyone is interested.

From the ASC:

Today the Minister for Sport, the Hon Sussan Ley MP, launched the Australian Sport Commission’s new participation game plan, Play.Sport.Australia.

This plan sets out the Australian Government’s big picture vision for boosting participation in sport, and is a sister document to Australia’s Winning Edge, the AIS’s 10-year game plan for high performance sport.

As the Minister said in launching Play.Sport.Australia. at the 2015 Business of Sport Summit, this plan is both comprehensive in its information and exciting in its ideas. It paints a compelling picture of how sport has changed in the last decade and plots the opportunities we must embrace and maximise in the years ahead.

Play.Sport.Australia. also provides a clear outline of where the Australian Sports Commission expects sports participation to be in the future, with our keys aims being:

• more Australians, particularly young Australians, participating in sport more often
• year-on-year membership and participation growth for all sports
• strong sporting organisations that deliver the products and opportunities Australians want.

With Play.Sport.Australia. launched, the Australian Sports Commission looks forward to working with sports, state departments and the whole sports sector to grow and strengthen participation in Australia.

Our priority areas will include extending the access sports have to information on participation trends; assisting sports to increase demand; and building the relationship between sports and those that supply it.

A copy of Play.Sport.Australia. is available on the Australian Sports Commission’s website, and I encourage you to take some time to familiarise yourself with it and share it with your peers.

Regards,

Simon Hollingsworth

CEO, Australian Sports Commission