President's Cups Winners 2015

The annual President's Cups are awarded according to schemes never divulged. The cups are crafted by long time Uringan and potter Jitka Kopriva.

2015: Sophie, Adrienne, club president Linda, and Aldo

Complete history of the President's Cup Awards

Year	Map	Big Cup	Small Cup	Medium Cup
2015	Villa Maria	Adrienne Kirby	Aldo Sesta	Sophie Jones
2014	Butchers Block	Maggie Jones	Rick Steel	Michael Weiner
2013	Exile Bay	Brian Cleland	Will Nolan & Jonathan Nolan	Penny Field
2012	Callan Park	Ian Jones	Jared McKenzie
2011	Grays Point	Ron Pallas	Matt Peters
2010	Concord	Catherine Murphy	Clare Murphy
2009	Villa Maria	Sarah Garnett	Helen Peters
2008	Grays Point	Mary Jane Mahony	Sue Bolton
2007	Villa Maria	Helen Murphy	Jane McKenna
2006	Villa Maria	Maureen Ogilvie	John Fuller
2005	Villa Maria	Linda Sesta	David McKenna
2004	Villa Maria
2003		Gayle Shepherd
2002	Butchers Block	Matt Peters
2001	Riverview	Bronwyn Steele/ Thea Richardson	Rick Steele
2000	Riverview	Chris Mill	David Lotty
1999	Riverview
1998	Concord	Ross Coyle	Patrick Murphy
1997	Peters' Precinct	Dick Ogilvie	Nick Wilmott
1996	Richo's Realm	Lisa Lampe	Michael Anderson
1995	Bicentennial Park	Maureen Ogilvie	Ross Coyle
1994	The Piggery	Anita Scherrer	Sue Bolton ?? Enock Strange
1993	Burrawang	John Fuller	Jane McKenna
1992	Bunnygalore	Margaret Wilmott	Maureen Ogilvie
1991	Bunnygalore	Ray Lidgard
1990	Bunnygalore	Terry Murphy	John Wilmott
1989	Bunnygalore	Keith Richardson	Jan Sargood
1988	Belanglo Creek	Michael Anderson	Wendy Fleming

2015 President's Cup and Christmas Party

The not-to-be missed event of the Uringan calendar year! (If you did miss it, put the last Saturday in November in your diary for 2017.)

• Venue by Matt and Helen - congenial spaces, a chance to look over the recent renovations, and cricket on the TV for those in need.  Unfortunately, located at the top of the hill.

• President's Cup event - Matt on behalf of club president Linda set a Hunters Hill challenge that required negotiation (teams of two deciding who would go where) and questions at control sites which required close reading (and occasionally some extra knowledge: who knew that Mary Reibey was once featured on the $20 note?, and to find out why Mary Reibey was important just ask Matt). There were two cartographic questions to trip up the runners.

• Food by everyone - yet again Uringans surpassed themselves, especially with tasty salads and desserts to die for.

• Santa Claus - of course.

• Giving out of undistributed badges (2014, 2015 . . .), Metro medals and NOSH mugs

Preparing maps with questions

Negotiating

Running

Making sense of the answers

Metroleague Division 5 Premiers

Jim still missed out on receiving the Rookie of the Year award, but at least we all got to see it

NOSH water carriers' rewards

New grandfather strutted his stuff and the Uringan aunties and uncles took a turn

 

And just in case anyone still had some energy...

ONSW Awards Presentation

ONSW trialled a new way to attract as many people as possible the the Awards Presentation thus it was combined with the Saturday Orienteering Series, which runs through the school term in the morning. There was a choice of 3 different courses and was ideal for a training run, as Bicentennial Park offers ultra fast terrain - ideal for sprint training!! The proceedings for the awards started swiftly after everyone had finished and lasted about an hour, finishing up at 1pm. It was short and sweet to say the least, mainly due to the fact that only about 40 people or so turned up. 
I guess the question remains what format would attract more people to turn up to the awards presentation. The covered pavilion @ Bicentennial Park offered a very relaxed atmosphere and those who attended had a very pleasant time; I guess afternoon would perhaps suit better than lunch time, but apparently that has been done too, without too much success. More importantly quite a few Uringa members won awards and it was great to see that most of them were there to receive their awards, unlike Big Foot !! They won over 20 Orienteer of the Year awards and the Shinglers were the only Big Footers there....

Congratulations to all Uringa members who won awards for the 2015 season:

Banksia award
Maggie Mackay

Waratah award
Finn Mackay

Metroleague Division 5 Premieres
Gayle, Dave L, Adrienne Kirby, Sophie & Maggie

Orienteer of the year
W14A        3rd Sophie Jones
W17-20A   1st Georgia Jones
W45A        1st Linda Sesta, 3rd Maggie Jones
W45AS      3rd Gayle Shepherd
W55A        3rd Lisa Lampe
W80A        1st Maureen Ogilvie
M14A         3rd Finn Mackay
M40A         3rd Anthony Nolan
M45A         2nd Ian Jones
M45AS      1st Jim Mackay
M70A         3rd Dick Ogilive
M75A         3rd Brian Cleland

Special Congratulations go out to Jim Mackay who won the "Rookie of the Year" trophy!! Jim started orienteering in 2013 and has only been bush orienteering for that long too. He has come leaps and bounds to win M45AS Orienteer of the Year for 2015. Well deserved Jim!!

Rainbow in photos

Tim Sleath set the course. Once the controls were out he was into recovery mode. (Apparently he'd also had a big day the day before to recover from.)

You never know who might turn up at an orienteering event. The Jones reconnected with neighbors from their time living in Maroubra. (A legacy of that time for Uringa are the Maroubra area maps.)

Club events are always social, as many members turn out to give whatever hand is needed, and then catch up with one another.

Clever siting of the assembly area meant that when the order came to 'bug out' before the thunder storm hit, a useful shelter was nearby.