Results have been compiled and we can publish the trophy and medal winners from the Scottish Night Championships. Congratulations to all the medal winners and to those taking home the coveted titles of Scottish Night Champions!

The review of the Performance Pathway for 16-18 year olds resulted in the creation of 3 Super-Regional squads – North, South and Scotland. Last week the 3 squads met together for the 1^st time for a training camp in the Lakes.

The SOA development team is keen to help clubs and other external organisations to organise orienteering camps for newcomers in various locations around Scotland this summer. We have a cohort of students and young people that have expressed interested in instructing at camps and now we would like to try and match them up with some suitable opportunities. To this end, we are seeking expressions of interest from partners that would like to organise summer camps that will include orienteering as all or part of their offering.

The Scottish Inter-Club Championship moved into its seventh week, as ECKO hosted a Scottish Orienteering League fixture at Coille Nathais, near Taynuilt.

Individual results for the SOL can be found here

BASOC are offering a summer job opportunity in the Aviemore area. The club is looking for an enthusiastic development officer to work with the club on a part-time basis over the summer months. The CDO will support a programme of volunteer-led activities, including running introductory sessions in the local community. Through this programme, the club aims to attract and retain more new members, increase participation in the sport and develop our volunteer base.

Further details and a role description can be found here

Closing date for applications is 18th March 2022

We would like to invite Expressions of Interest to undertake some work to plan and deliver introductory orienteering sessions in the Earlston Primary school cluster in the Borders. The work is part of a wider development project being initiated by Roxburgh Reivers to improve recruitment to the club and increase awareness of orienteering across Borders communities.

The East Area clubs (KFO, TAY, ESOC, INT, EUOC, ELO and RR) are working together to develop a programme of training opportunities open to all junior orienteers that have reached TD3 (orange) standard or above. The plans are a first step towards re-establishing an East Area junior squad, similar to the successful SWAT squad that has been running in the west of Scotland for several years now.

Following our Community Conversation last year on Gender Equality in orienteering, we have been notified that IOF are seeking the voice of the orienteering community on equal winning times for men and women. An online survery is available (link below), we look forward to hearing the outcomes of the consultation in due course.

One of the autumn’s newly qualified Level 1 coaches has already played his part in getting the ball rolling for coaching at KFO. Matthew Clark has been helping the club’s new members get their bearings in local woods.

 In partnership with existing club coach, Ian Doig, the duo has also developed a set of training mornings for club members. The first had fourteen KFO members come along to polish their compass skills.  

Our SOA tutors are a valuable part of our workforce. If you are interested in becoming a tutor qualified to deliver IntrO courses or Coaching Foundation (qualified L1 coaches) then the first step is a Sport Education Professional Development Award (PDA SET). The course dates for this year are now available with more information on the sportscotland website Please email suzanne@scottish-orienteering.org if you are interested