South Summer Series #4: Beachside Bash

The Uringa crew turned out in force yesterday for the club's latest contribution to the Southern Sydney Summer Series at windswept Maroubra. Assembly was in the Arthur Byrne Reserve, an extremely well-located grassy area with nearby parking and facilities.  The route along the beach and the cliffs was magical, with views up and down the coast. The interior hilly streets and reserves ... well, controls had to be put somewhere. Many thanks to mapper Maggie, course setter Georgia, Ian who always does whatever needs to be done, and the merry band of helpers at the event.

ONSW Annual Presentation Dinner

The ONSW awards night took place last Saturday night at Castle Hill and Uringa picked up some great  awards.

The Junior awards were awarded as followed (points are awarded for participation in Junior League and State League events):

Waratah Awards (100+ points)

Georgia Jones       335 pts

Jared McKenna    270 pts

Sophie Jones        250 pts   

Banksia Awards (75+ points)

Will Nolan             80 pts

Sam Boland           75 pts

Wattle Awards (50+ points)

Raphaella Robertson   70 pts

Benjamino Briganti     50 pts 

Congratulations to all juniors for your achievements this season - well done!!

Metroleague

(min participation at 3 events or at least participation in the final if only 1 or 2 runs)

Premiers: Division 4 / Uringa - Central Coast Kites 

Maggie Jones, Ron Garner, Angela Murray, Lisa Lampe, Michael Tomkins, Margaret Wilmott)

Congratulations Team - great results!! 

NSW Club of the Year 2012:    URINGA !!

(for high level of achievement in promotion, membership, event organisation and competition)

The main reasons for Uringa taking home this trophy were:

Maggie Jones's effort with implementing and organising training sessions & beginners course

Ron Pallas's Sportident work

Dave Lotty's co-ordination of the Southern Summer Series

Linda Sesta and Dave Lotty's involvement in setting up the Permanent course at Centennial Park

WFFG organisation

Increase of membership (~34%)

What a great team effort!! Thanks to everyone involved in above projects and to all the Uringa members working behind the scenes at events whether it is on the Uringa Board, with course setting, helping out at events, organising social events, hosting Christmas parties etc. Thank you....thank you...thank you !! :-) We can be proud of ourselves !

Presidents Award 2012: 

Maggie Jones: Awarded by the President to an orienteer making an outstanding contribution to the furtherance of NSW orienteering.

Congratulations Maggie!! You are so deserving of this award not only for your role as Communications Manager but also with all the work you are doing with the training sessions and the beginners course, and the organisation of the amazingly successful Spooks O, running the canteen at Stateleague events and everything else you do!! :-)

Orienteering map database

I found this link on the Garingal website and it's a good tool for finding copies of existing maps (where they are available). Here is the link:

http://garingal.com.au/maps/

Matt tackles street orienteering in London

Read about Matt's orienteering adventure in London, sounds awesome! Club trip anyone ;-)


http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d340cc248a147946e62fc17c3/files/CityRace_v1.0.pdf

Double header event #2 - Southern Summer Series Event #2

This was the Monday event held on Sunday. Got that? Normally the Southern Summer Series events are held on Monday afternoons, but the opportunity to use the Fire Fighters World Games Course was just too good to pass up. One course setting, one setup and clear up, for two events.

Penny demonstrates that some jobs at events are pretty relaxed.

Several people tried out orienteering including Jane,
whose more experienced family members were glad to explain how it all worked.

Unfortunately, there's always a little paperwork at an event.

Uriinga club members turned out to help out for all or part of the day. Somehow Dave M didn't get the message about wearing club shirts - he was the odd person out among a sea of yellow and green. It was a good opportunity to catch up with one another. 

World Fire Fighter Games Orienteering Event

Yesterday Uringa ran a 45 minute score orienteering event in Centennial Park for the World Fire Fighters Games. This was the first event of a double header Sunday.

Ron  assisted by Matt briefs the assembled firefighters and their associates on  just what they were about to do.

Ron (the other Ron) and Brian manage the results. 

ONSW President Paul Prudhoe was on hand to award the prizes (see here with course setter Ian).

Club President Linda and the many medals awarded at the presentation.

Awards presentation time was also photo op time!  Some of  our juniors  found themselves in demand.

And finally the last competitor returns, having found all save one control  and taken a couple of hours to do so. (We think there may have been a language problem at the briefing.)

 More on the event at http://onsw.asn.au/454-world-fire-fighter-games-at-centennial-park

'Snow' Hills non-event

It must have been an (unwanted) first in State League History. Schedule as the first two 2013 State League Events, and then postponed, to be the last two, Snow Hills (organised by Big Foot) was finally cancelled altogether earlier this month.

Preparing for and running bush orienteering events is no small task. Cancelling an event is a hard decision to make... but clearly the right one. In spite of appearances in the second photo below, there was a lot of standing water.

We were some of the Uringans who had organised and committed ourselves to a weekend in the southern highlands (again).

What the weather and the landscape looked like on Friday on the way to Canberra, about when we got the message that the Snow Hills events had been cancelled.

What the weather and the landscape looked like on Saturday afternoon heading back to Sydney from Braidwood.