Congratulations to Lucy Mackie (NSW) who was named as 2017 Athlete of the Year by Orienteering Australia at Easter. This was due to her great results at the Junior World MTBO Championships in Lithuania last year, winning a silver medal in the middle & placing a close 7th in the long.This follows further outstanding results in 2016.
She is only the 2nd MTB orienteer, after multiple World Champion Adrian Jackson, to win this award.
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]
The first four races of the 2018 National Orienteering League were held this weekend as part of the Melbourne Sprint Weekend.
Great British visitors running for Victoria, Peter Hodkinson and William Gardner, dominated the senior men competition while Belinda Lawford (ACT) is ahead of Krystal Neumann (QLD) and Natasha Key (VIC) in the senior women.
Aston Key (VIC) took over from where he left off last year, winning all three junior men races, but Asha Steer (VIC) has taken the early lead in the junior women over last year’s winner Tara Melhuish (ACT).
Race 3 was an exciting mixed relay won in the senior class by Victoria over the SA Arrows, and in the juniors the Cockatoos had a strong win over the SA Arrows.
See the full NOL Standings.
Thanks to Orienteering Victoria for the massive effort of putting on six races across six venues and three days.
Orienteering Australia is looking for a manager for the Australian team to attend the World Orienteering Championships in Latvia on August 4-11. The team coach will be Jim Russell. If you would like to volunteer or know someone who would be suitable please contact Ian Prosser (Ian.prosser11@gmail.com) or Jim Russell (headcoach@orienteering.asn.au).
Details can be found here.
Nominations for Australian teams to WOC, JWOC, WUOC and Bushrangers trip to NZ close on the 20th Feb.
Links to who has nominated are below.
For those who have nominated for the Sprint at WOC, there has been a change to the Embargo conditions, more information here
And finally, for all of you that have nominated, the 5 k Parkrun time trial is on the 24th Feb. All the best, and keep those PB’s rolling in
OA is pleased to announce team coaches and managers for 2018. The appointees can be found at:
Thanks to the appointees for helping with these positions and associated national squad and national selector roles. These are voluntary positions. Its great to see several of our senior elite orienteers volunteering for these positions and all members of the high performance personnel have had personal experience as elite orienteers and a long association with high performance orienteering in Australia.