West Anglian Orienteering Club

JabberWAOC editor neededSituation vacant

JabberWAOC, our club magazine, is currently dormant. It is a previous winner of the CompassSport Magazine of the Year. The WAOC committee would like to bring it back to life and would love to hear from anyone interested in helping us achieve this.

This would be an opportunity to look at what works for other clubs (e.g. EPOC's Epistle) or to liaise with East Anglian Clubs to work on a joint magazine.

Park-O score league winners2024-2025 academic year

The new Odds/Evens score league was run over the 4 Park-O events in the 2024-2025 academic year (Coe Fen, Wandlebury, Milton and Coldham's Common). With a 30-minute time limit, the courses were pretty frantic.

The best 3 scores of 4 events counted and a minimum of 3 events had to be run to count.

The top men were (which were all with sufficient scores):

No women ran more than 2 events.

Wednesday orienteering restarts 30th April

Wednesday evening training, alternating with MapRun events, will return after Easter.

Click on training nights to see the programme for the summer term.

WAOC juniors race for England

Hebe and Kate represented England at Interland 2025 which was held in the Netherlands on 2nd March as part of team of 48 juniors and seniors drawn from 24 separate clubs. Both scored solid results (Kate was a reserve, so was non-competitive). England won the Interland Cup match with 218 points.

WAOC class winners in the East Anglian League 2024

The 2024 East Anglian League came to a close with SMOC’s event at Stowe Park on 19th January, and the final league standings have been published on the EAOA website. Here are WAOC's class winners:

James Scott M10, Esther Eaton W10

Erik Biernacka-Jablonski M12, Elysia Cowe W12

Kate Jarrett W16

Rowan Lee (DRONGO and WAOC) M21

Matt Eaton M35, Brian Cowe M45

Stephen Borrill M50, Dil Wetherill M60

Bruce Marshall M70, Mike Bickle M75

Helen Bickle W40, Emma Jarrett W45

Helen Hague W55, Sue Hartley W65

Noreen Ives W70

Congratulations to all the WAOC class winners!

East Anglian Urban League Winners for 2024

The East Anglian Urban League incorporated 6 urban events across the region during 2024.

The results have now been published, revealing an impressive number of category winners from WAOC:

• Alys Powell (WYJ)
• Hebe Darwin (WO)
• Johanna Powell and Helen Bickle (WV) - tie for top spot
• Camilla Darwin (WSV)
• Sue Hartley (WUV)
• Erik Biernacki-Jablonski (MJ)
• Chris Rampton and Dil Wetherill (MSV) - tie for top spot
• Mike Bickle (MHV)

Congratulations to all. The full list of EAUL scores can be found on the EAOA website, here.

WAGAL Winners 2024

The WAGAL scoreboard has been updated with points from the final WAGAL event of 2024, Mildenhall North on 17th November, and also with points awarded in lieu to officials who organised, planned or controlled at WAGAL events during the year. That means that the standings are now finalised and the class winners can be announced. And they are:

• Junior Men: Erik Biernacki-Jablonski
• Junior Women: Alys Powell
• Senior Men: Mark Hopkin
• Senior Women: Helen Bickle
• Veteran Men: Chris Rampton
• Veteran Women: Emma Jarrett
• SuperVet Men: Dil Wetherill
• SuperVet Wormen: Sue Hartley

The overall highest scorer is once again Sue Hartley. Congratulations to her and to all the class winners.

JabberWAOC magazineThe Newsletter of WAOC

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!