Orienteering ACT Honour Board
The honour role board lists the primary office holders (President, Secretary & Treasurer), since 1971.
Orienteering ACT Life Members
Life members are recognised for their significant contribution to Orienteering ACT.
Mike Cassells Award
The Mike Cassells Award for Services to Orienteering in the ACT was introduced in 1991 in memory of Mike Cassells who died following a car accident en route home after the 1990 Australian Relay Championships.
Mike had been involved with Orienteering in the ACT since the beginning of 1974 as a competitor, fieldworker, organiser, course planner, controller and administrator. He was secretary of the ACT Orienteering Association during 1975-77, won a number of Championships in various veteran age classes and represented Australia against New Zealand. His death was a great loss to Orienteering and to his family, wife Judy and sons David, Andrew and Graham, who crafted the memento that is presented annually to the recipient of the award to remind us of the significant contribution that Mike made to Orienteering, and that others have made since his untimely death.
Services to Coaching Award
The Services to Coaching Award in the ACT was introduced in 2001 to recognise and reward orienteers who made a significant contribution to coaching others, with the emphasis on significant contribution, rather than the success of the coached athletes. The aim was to encourage more appropriately qualified orienteers to assist others to improve their orienteering and their enjoyment of the sport.
Jim Sawkins Award
The Jim Sawkins Award for Services to Event Management in the ACT was introduced in 2006 in memory of Jim Sawkins who died while orienteering on Sunday 5 June 2006 at Goorooyaroo, after being the organiser/course planner at Farrer Ridge on the previous day. Jim had been involved with Orienteering in the ACT since around 1980 as a competitor, organiser, course planner and controller. He was noted for his attention to detail and his willingness to put in the extra work essential to ensuring that any event with which he was involved was as good as it could possibly be. And he was always willing to take on extra tasks. Jim was the epitome of what an orienteering event official should be.
Audun Fristad Awards
The Audun Fristad awards are the oldest continuously presented Orienteering awards in the ACT. They were first presented in 1978 and are named after a former member of the Association. Audun was a Norwegian who loved his Orienteering. In fact he believed it is the greatest sport ever invented. In 1978, Audun almost took out the first “grand slam” of Australian orienteering. He contested the Australian Long Distance Championships and every State championship except WA. Audun won all except the ACT Championships which were held at Kowen Scarp and in so doing he was named the Silva Orienteer of the Year award with a then record of 29 points.
In 1978 Audun also introduced junior awards into the ACT orienteering community. These awards were intended to not only recognise excellence, but also to encourage promising juniors. Each year he would painstakingly go through the year’s results to find juniors whom he felt were worthy of his awards. This was in the days when orienteering events were usually only held on Sundays.
In 1983, the Association took over responsibility for these awards. They are now made solely as encouragement awards and a junior can only ever receive one. The aim is to recognise ten juniors each year, preferably five males and five females.
Wehner Cup
ACT Orienteer of the Year
Runners Shop Twilight Series
A low-key mid-week ‘off-season’ series with competition points calculated using a handicap system which adjusts competitors’ kilometre rates, based on their age and gender.
Southern Cross Inter-Club
Recognises the leading club in the Classic Series that forms the ACT League Competition.
President Awards
The President Awards recognise an outstanding contribution to the organisation.
Pan Pacific Challenge
Composite Regional sub-junior teams competing at major Australian carnivals.
NSW / ACT Bennelong Trophy
NSW vs ACT based on each State’s Long Distance Championships.
OA Champion Club Trophy
The club with the highest points at the end of Day 2 of the annual Australian 3-Days
OA Xanthorrhoea Trophy
Champion State in the Relays at the Australian Championships
OA Shield
Champion State in Long Distance event at the Australian Championships.
ACT Sports Awards
- 1987, ACT Sportstar of the Year Awards, Female Sportstar: Jenny Bourne
- 1997, ACT Chief Minister Award for Excellence in the Sport and Recreation Industry, Media Liaison: ACT Orienteering Association
- 1998, ACT Chief Minister Award for Excellence in the Sport and Recreation Industry, Media Liaison: ACT Orienteering Association
- 1999, ACT Sportstar of the Year Awards, Junior Sportstar: Troy de Haas
- 2001, Sport and Recreation ACT Award for Excellence in Marketing and Promotion: ACT Orienteering Association
- 2020, CBR Sport Awards, Minister’s Award for Innovation: Orienteering ACT
- 2021, CBR Sport Awards, Team of the Year finalist: Cockatoos Senior Women
- 2022, Chief Minister’s Canberra Gold Award: Orienteering ACT
ACT Sport Hall of Fame Inductees
- Jenny Bourne. Full member 1996.
- David Hogg. Associate member 2008.
- Robert Mouatt OAM. Associate member 2013.
- Grant Bluett. Full member 2023.
Orienteering Australia Hall of Fame Inductees
- Athlete Division: Grant Bluett (2016), Jenny Bourne (2016), Hermann Wehner (2018), Geoff Lawford (2019), Jo Allison (2022).
- General Division: David Hogg (2016), Robert Mouatt OAM (2018).