Ian Booth Award
This was named after Ian Booth, a club stalwart, who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2011. Ian enjoyed a red wine very much so the award is normally based on good quality Australian red wine.
The prize is awarded to the most improved Master’s level competitor. It is calculated on relative improvement based on ACT League results. The winner must have competed in at least 50% of events. The award cannot be won by the same person on more than one occasion.
Previous winners have been:
2023 Craig Johnson
2022 Jo Hobson
2021 No Award
2020 No Award
2019 Matt Stocks
2018 Chris Anderson
2017 Anita Scherrer
2016 Valerie Barker
2015 Chris Stocks
2014 Carol Harding
2013 Toni Brown
2012 Robyn D’Ascenzo
2011 Pauli Piiroinen
World Championship and Junior World Championship Representatives
World Championships
Graham Moon¹ (1974)
Maurice Ongania² (1976, 1978, 1983, 1985, 1987)
Rudi Huettner¹ (1979)
Blair Trewin (1995)
Cassie Trewin (1999, 2003)
Lachlan Dow (2013, 2014, 2015)
Caitlin Young (2022, 2023, 2024)
Junior World Championships
Blair Trewin (1991)
Michael Derlacki (1991, 1992)
Cassie Trewin (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997)
Sophie Barker (2004, 2006)
Oskar Booth (2003)
Heather Harding (2007)
Ineka Booth³ (2007)
Lachlan Dow (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Oliver Poland (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
Georgia Parsons (2010, 2011)
Andrew Barnett (2013)
Patrick Miller (2018, 2019)
Caitlin Young (2019)
Noah Poland (2019)
David Stocks (2021*, 2022, 2023)
Natalie Miller (2023, 2024)
Justine Hobson (2023)
Junior World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships
Luke Poland (2010)
¹ From Northside Navigators which amalgamated with Majura Macropods to become Bushflyers.
² Belonged to Northside Navigators for part of the time but was with Parawanga for the rest of the time.
³ Was selected for the Australian JWOC team but had to withdraw because of injury.
*An Australian JWOC honour team was selected in 2021 but did not compete at the championships due to the COVID-19 pandemic.