March 2020 - Orienteering ACT

Orienteering and COVID-19

Post author:Paul de Jongh
Post published:23 March 2020
Post category:Focus on Girls Governance Juniors OACT News SC-ORE

OACT will be putting in place measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In some cases this will see the cancellation of events. An up-to-date list of all cancelled events…

MTBO Coaching Workshops Now Online

Post author:Paul de Jongh
Post published:23 March 2020
Post category:MTBO OACT News

Due to the COVID-19 cancellation of all non-essential activities, the face-to-face MTBO Coaching Workshops on 28th March, 23 April, and 14 May have been cancelled. Instead the MTBO Coaching workshop…

MTBO Coaching Sessions off to a Successful Start

Post author:Paul de Jongh
Post published:20 March 2020
Post category:MTBO OACT News

The first of five MTBO Coaching sessions assembled 10 participants at Gossan Hill on Thursday, ranging from beginners to mature and experienced riders. The focus of the first MTBO session…

Shannon Jones Wraps up Twilight Series

Post author:Robert Mouatt
Post published:7 March 2020
Post category:OACT News

After years of trying, Shannon Jones finally achieved her objective of winning one of the Orienteering ACT’s age/gender handicap series when she wrapped up the 2019-20 Runners Shop Twilight Series…

St Monica’s SC-ORE Cancelled

Post author:Paul de Jongh
Post published:4 March 2020
Post category:Juniors OACT News SC-ORE

The first SC-ORE event of the Autumn 2020 series at St Monica's Primary, tomorrow 5 March, is cancelled.Unfortunately heavy ongoing rainfall has made the grounds unsuitable for SC-ORE. We are…

Kathy Saw Has Run Her Last Race

Post author:Robert Mouatt
Post published:3 March 2020
Post category:OACT News

Orienteering pioneer and champion competitor for two decades, Kathy Saw, succumbed to cancer on Sunday morning. Kathy was also a multiple rogaining champion, after she changed sports in the mid-1990s.…

ACT Night-O Championships, 18 March

Post author:Paul de Jongh
Post published:3 March 2020
Post category:OACT News

Registration is open for the 2020 ACT Night Orienteering Championships to be held at Cooleman Ridge on Wednesday 18 March. Coach in Residence Fryderyk is organising this informal championship as…

The Buzz – Bushflyers News March 2020

Post author:Paul de Jongh
Post published:1 March 2020
Post category:Bushflyers

Welcome to our Members Welcome New Members… Contacts for you all It is my pleasure to welcome our new members to the club: some of you joined late last year,…