For all club and major event results go to Eventor.
Changes to events as a result of COVID-19
We love our sport. We love the home that it provides for like-minded, active, outdoors-people who share an adventurous, independent spirit. We know that once they start, many orienteers are "chronic", and will seek out orienteering events almost every weekend. With so many of us losing so many of our past-times and outlets at the moment, we were really hoping that orienteering would find a way through.
Although orienteering may by the best-placed of sports to survive under the current COVID-19 pandemic (outdoors, individual etc), we can't under-estimate the risks that ANY reason to gather presents to the health of our community. We also can't ignore the high level of participation we get from older participants in the sport. As such, like most other sporting bodies, we're taking steps to prioritise public health and saving lives over physically gathering around the sport that we love.
Cancellation of SOS #6 and Highlands Forest Series #1
SHOO and Bold Horizons have already cancelled this coming weekend's SOS at St Greg's (forced by the closure of the college). This morning SHOO's committee released a statement regarding HFS#1 and the remining series:
It is with regret that SHOO must cancel our first Highland Forest Series event at Mt Annan on Sunday 5 April given the current advice on social distancing and the risk of infecting competitors and organisers with COVID-19.
All other events in the series are on hold and we will be guided by expert advice. However, we are being told that this situation could go on for 6 months or more.
Keep safe and fit, stay connected with us to pick up where we're leaving off, and look after each other,
SHOO Committee
SHOO cleans up at the NSW Sprint Champs
Last weekend the NSW Sprint Championships were held at Sydney Uni. Sprints are complex courses through highly detailed areas, usually unique layouts which make interesting challenges. The focus is on speed and route choice to save yourself seconds, and the results are normally very tight.
SHOO fielded a respectable contingent on the high-quality sprint map, and turned out a huge 12 podium finishes:
Boy's/Girl's 10N: Euan Shedden, 3rd place
Girl's 10A: Ailie Carroll, 2nd place
Boy's 10A: Rory Shedden, 1st place
Women's Open B: Liz Lewis, 2nd place
Women's 40A: Ruth Shedden, 1st place
Men's 40A: Angus Shedden, 2nd place
Women's 45AS: Kristie Carroll, 2nd place
Men's 45AS: Stephan Wagner, 2nd place
Women's 55AS: Sandra Stewart, 2nd place
Women's 70A: Lyn Malmgron, 2nd place
Men's 75A: Chippy Le Carpentier, 2nd place
Men's 80A: Neville Fathers, 3rd place
Well done to all of the runners on your excellent results! Full results can be seen on Eventor.
Club Relays Event Report
Date: Sunday 3rd November, 2019
Venue: Picton Botanic Gardens, Picton.
Organisers and report : Paul and Sue Davis
An International Field enjoyed the well cared-for surroundings of the Picton Botanic Gardens. Only one Australian native animal slithered out of its home near the creek to greet a selected few.
Relay competitors were carefully divided into fast and slightly slower runners. Eight teams were drawn from one of each. At the mass start teams had to plan which of the 18 controls would be sought by each runner and then meet at the last control and come to the finish together.
Planning underway in pairs…
Angus came in very early to wait under the cool of the tree for partner, Nat, who had some tricky controls to find. They eventually returned in 4th. Angus had been earlier joined by Craig, Dean and young Rory under the tree as they waited for their team mates to return.
Clever planning by President Garry and young Rory finally saw them in 1st! An amazing effort! Congratulations! Experience and fast feet carried Dave Lotty and Dean into second place. Careful planning by Stephan and Sandra brought them in together at 3rd. The remainder of teams were not far behind with Craig and Barb 5th, Peter and Kristy 6th, Ruth and Liz 7th and Lyn and Robert 8th.
Winners El Presidente Garry and Rory!
From ‘post run’ chats we think everyone enjoyed themselves as did Paul and Sue in setting the courses.
An Easy line course was tackled by 6 groups. We welcomed the Humphreys Family who came to their second orienteering event after enjoying their first at Appin. We are sure to see them again. Ian Shedden (the father of Angus) was the eventual winner.
Results:
Relay
Rory Shedden & Garry Stewart, 30:38
Dean Williamson & Dave Lotty, 32:15
Sandra Stewart & Stephan Wagner, 33:31
Nat Carroll & Angus Shedden, 35:34
Barb Dawson & Craig Roach, 36:47
Kristie Carroll & Peter Meyer, 43:14
Ruth Shedden & Liz Lewis, 45:36
Robert Spry & Lyn Malmgron, 48:56
Easy
Ian Shedden, 15:48
Ailie Carroll, 22:22
Anna Shedden, 24:24
Aiden Humphreys, 24:40
Heath Humphreys, 24:47
Euan Shedden, MP
State Leagues 14 & 15 and NSW Schools Championships Event Report
SHOO had a cracker of a weekend lined up, coordinating with 3 State League events in 2 days. Naturally, we decided to make it harder, and overlay the NSW Schools Championships over these as well. Consequently, every even was both a State League and a Schools Championship, which made for a busy weekend.
Thank you SHOO!
In case you haven’t noticed, running orienteering events is not a simple, easy feat, particularly on this scale. Our first point of business is to say thank you to our enormous pool of SHOObies who supported the events. From old to new, young to old, it was genuinely inspiring to see our Club come together to successfully coordinate 3 top-level events. From the start line marshals who stood out in the freezing cold for hours, to mappers, course-setters, parking marshals, control placers (and retrievers), computers, sweeps, coaches, photographers, there were so many roles to fill, and never an empty space.
We want you to know that we appreciate everyone giving of themselves (and sometimes their opportunity to participate) to enable so many kids to have a great orienteering experience. You were friendly, professional, and always willing to jump in - all of the things that make SHOO such a great (and growing) club.
Special thanks to Lyn for overseeing the entire event, and everyone who filled specialised roles in the lead-up, like Robert Spry, Peter Meyer, Garry and Sandy etc.
Some stats
Rather than re-cap each event individually, here are some stats to show the magnitude of what we achieved together at the 3 events across Oxley College (sprint), Tudor House (sprint) and Welby (middle distance):
62 schools were represented from across NSW (the furthest was from Cootamundra)
723 runs in the 3 State League events, and 450 runs in the schools champs, which is over 1,100 runs in total - huge!
As far as we know, 0 serious injuries or critical incidents (well, one girl got lost at Welby, but she found herself)
Hardly any complaints or grumbling (which is saying something, coming from orienteers!
Results
The results from the State League events are available on Eventor (Oxley, Tudor House, Welby).
The School Championships results are as follows:
Primary school champions
Mowbray Primary School: 17 points
Camden South Primary School: 15 points
North Rocks Primary School: 12 points
Secondary Schools champions
Knox Grammar: 38 points
Warners Bay High School: 12 points
William Clark College: 11 points
Region champions
Combined Independent Schools: 179 points
Sydney North Region: 154 points
South West Region: 98 points
Sydney South West Region: 75 points