Category: News

We are very pleased that the SOA magazine, SCORE, has received a Best Newsletter Award from CompassSport for the 4th year in a row, and 9th time overall! Read More…

This was the 10th anniversary of the Edinburgh University Orienteering Club’s Big Weekend, although this year “Huge Weekend” might be a better name. There were 4 events, over 750 runners and nearly 2000 runs. Read More…

We are very pleased to welcome Fiona Keir to the post of Chief Operating Officer starting work with us on 4th January 2018.  Read More…

The SOA is delighted to announce the appointment of the new Regional Development Officer North: Sarah Dunn Read More…

The Junior Inter Area competition is an annual competition where the 3 areas in Scotland (North, West and East) compete during a relay and individual event to see which area will come out on top. This year the relays were hosted at Dechmont Law alongside the Scottish Orienteering Urban League event and the individual at Drummond Hill using the final Scottish Orienteering League event of the year. Congratulations to the North Area who are this year’s Junior Inter Area Champions! Read More…

The penultimate Scottish Orienteering League (SOL) event of 2017 was staged by Grampian Orienteers whose website is sub-titled “Take a Run on the Wild Side.”  Forvie National Nature Reserve certainly lived up to this billing – in the pre-event information Gramp stated “It’s windswept, it’s wild, it’s wonderful (in our not-so-humble opinion but we’re sure you’ll agree)”.  Hurricane Ophelia was somewhere out to the west but still the wind forced the download team and their computers into the back of a van and there was some concern that the controls would be taking off into the North Sea. Read More…

Congratulations go to Terry O’Brien and his helpers for staging the inaugural event at Grandtully and celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the club.  In 2016 the club was awarded a small contribution from the SOA Club Development Fund to kickstart the mapping of this new area.  Terry had been eyeing up Grandtully (and measuring the size of boulders) for 20 years and it was great for the area to be used and support the different levels of technical difficulty.  Read More…

A small band of Scottish club members made their way down to Milton Keynes and Wendover Woods for the British Sprint and Middle Championships this weekend. There was much Scottish success from those who attended and full results can be found here: http://www.sportident.co.uk/results/2017/BritishSprintMiddle/ Read More…

The Junior European Cup was held 29th September – 1st October 2017 in Fürstenfeld SE Austria. This competition gives a chance to gain some experience and see what racing at an international event is all about. Read More…

Following 3 rounds of 8 individual and 4 team races (Finland, WOC in Estonia, Latvia) earlier in the year; the final 4th round of 3 races was held over the weekend (29th September – 1st October) in Grindelwald Switzerland. Set against the stunning backdrop of the Eiger and surrounding Alps this round certainly did not lack breathe-taking views. More information and results can be found here: http://www.o-worldcup.ch/en/ Read More…