Following the event at Grandtully on Sunday, held as part of the Junior Inter-areas competition hosted by the West area, the 2022 Scottish Inter- Club Championship league table has been updated. The updated table can be viewed via this link Scottish Inter-Club Championship Table – 04/09/22 .
After 23 events so far, Forth Valley Orienteering Club (FVO) have overcome Edinburgh Southern Orienteering Club’s (ESOC) previous lead to top the Large Clubs division but ESOC are not far behind. With an increased number of events in the north area for the remainder of the year can MAROC, MOR or INVOC use weight of numbers to climb up the table and challenge FVO and ESOC?
In the Small Clubs division Roxburgh Reivers (RR) currently retain their lead but Tayside Orienteers (TAY), St Andrew’s Orienteering Club(Glasgow) (STAG) and East Lothian Orienteers (ELO) are chasing close behind.
FVO and ELO continue to lead the Junior Inter-Clubs.
With new events having being added to the calendar, the opportunities for clubs to gain points have increased. The remaining dates are listed below:-
We are delighted to announce the Scottish teams for the Junior Inter Regional Competition (JIRCs) and the Junior Home Internationals (JHIs). The teams have been selected taking into account availability and to provide as many juniors as possible with the opportunity to race whilst also sending strong teams to both events.
The Junior Inter Regionals (JIRCs) will see Scotland compete against teams from all 12 British Orienteering Regions. They will be held in Northern Ireland on the weekend on 24/25 September.
The SOUL series restarts after its summer hiatus, with the next events in Perth and Elgin later in September. Entries are open for both.
The headline news is that we’re now back to thirteen events in the series. Having lost one event early one due to ‘permissions’, a replacement for it has been recently added. Accordingly, the series will revert to being being the best seven scores for all senior classes. although the junior classes will remain best six scores.
The weekend saw the return of the Junior Inter-Area competition. Juniors from East, North and West gathered in Pitlochry for a weekend stay which allowed juniors from 12 clubs to compete as teams for their region in relay and individual races. The overnight stay allowed them all to mix and meet other juniors outwith their club/ region.
All juniors gathered at Black Spout on the edge of Pitlochry to start the weekend with the relay races. North won the relay by 28 points claiming 1st and 2nd in the open category and 1st and 3rd place in the junior girl category. West claimed the other podium places but East can claim credit for fielding juniors from each of their member clubs!
Have fun, learn new skills and contribute to the life of your club!
Having put it on hold through the pandemic, we decided it was time to update and restart our Young Leaders programme. Juniors can mix and match modules depending on their own areas of interest. Training will be provided free of charge by the SOA and juniors will be mentored in clubs.
STAG’s 23rd Glasgow Parks Orienteering Championships (3Parks in 1 day) was held in the south-west of our City on Sunday 21st August 2022 with around 90 competitors from near and far.
This event was born out of The Park World Tour Race in Kelvingrove Park in June 1999 as a vehicle to encourage orienteers to experience the joys of orienteering offered by our Dear Green Place and has proved successful but there is still room for many more to participate/compete as they desire. Orienteers from France, Germany and Norway have combined a visit to Glasgow with competing at our unique GPC.
Club secretaries will recently have received an email from British Orienteering to outline new anti-money laundering leglisation which may impact clubs. Our partners at Harper MacLeod have put together a helpful guide and further details. We urge all clubs to read and consider if this applies to them because action in the form of registration may be required by 1st September.
Are you ever confused about what age class or course to enter? A handy guide has been added to our website for just those moments. Guide to Age Classes and Courses
This years Inter-areas competition for Juniors is fast approaching. We would love to see more parents join us on 3rd/4th September at Pitlochry. There are a number of twin rooms available in the hostels so why not team up with some other parents from your club and come and support the Juniors. You get to run too.
Parents come and join us there…in Pitlochry…3rd September.
Contact your area co-ordinators for more information. For the North Sue Barrie MAROC/James Laird INVOC; East Claire Ward INT/ Katherine Ivory ESOC and West Roger and Dawn Goddard FVO or speak to someone in your club. Entries close THIS SUNDAY. Enter via this link – wide range of colour coded courses in a great area at Grandtully near Pitlochry. For more information on the Inter-areas competition check out this link.
Following on from the updating of the list of SOA active controllers – which can be found at Club Toolkit – SOA list of qualified event controllers – the operations team at SOA have organised an event for controllers and planners.
The aim of the event is for controllers or planners to have an opportunity to come together and discuss controller’s conundrums. The focus will be on 2 or 3 real incidents which have taken place in the last year and discuss what actions could have been taken to avoid the incident occurring. The opportunity will be given to the controllers/ planners to raise other issues.
The lounge at Boat of Garten Community Hall has been booked for Saturday 8th October between 4pm and 6pm. The event is timed to allow everyone to compete at the Interlopers Middle Distance event at Loch Vaa before the event and there will be refreshments and cake! We look forward to seeing you there.
