Lagganlia 2025

This July, one of our junior orienteers, Erik, was selected to take part in the Lagganlia training camp, held annually and based near Aviemore in Scotland.

You can read Erik's report of his experience at Lagganlia on the EAOA Junior Squad web page, here.

WAOC's Midland Champions 2025

The 2025 Midland Championships were held on 6 September on Chinley Churn (DVO). The weather was horrid with thunderstorms for late starters, but nice for everybody else. There are photos of the event, including some WAOC runners here

Congratulations to WAOC's Midland Champions:

• M14A Erik Biernacki-Jablonski
• M18E Chun Yan Alistair Fu
• W10A Hana Powell
• W12A Elysia Cowe
• W14A Alys Powell
• W18E Hebe Darwin
• W45L Emma Jarrett

WAOC at the British Mixed Sprint RelaysYoung Junior Team wins Silver

WAOC were able to field 9 teams (including a Junior Alliance team with SOS) on Saturday 30 August at the Sprint Relay Championships at RAF Honington.

Many congratulations to the Young Junior Relay (12-) (Etty, Hana, Edmund), for achieving second place in the M/W12- class. They were delighted with their Silver Medals.

Park-O returnsFirst event is on 13th September

Park-O returns for 2025-2026 on Saturday afternoons and all are welcome - especially newcomers.

For more experienced orienteers, we will be offering an odds/even score at each event with a small prize awarded to the person who gains the most points over the four Park-O events.

The events are:

• Lammas Land and Coe Fen - 13th September 2025
• Wandlebury Country Park - 10th Jan 2026
• Cherry Hinton Hall Park - 14th March 2026
• Coldhams Common - 16th May 2026

With these and other WAOC events, there is orienteering most months from September through to May so please come along and enjoy being out in the fresh air!

WAOC Juniors Win the Yvette Baker Trophy

Congratulations to our junior team of 23 who competed in the Yvette Baker Final 2025 and won the Trophy! This is the greatest result by WAOC’s Juniors in the club's 52-year history.

WAOC's Class winners at the East Anglian Champs

This year's East Anglian Championships were hosted by SOS at Writtle Forest on 22nd June. Congratulations to all the WAOC class winners:

W10 Esther Eaton

W12 Elysia Cowe

W16 Kate Jarrett

W40 Helen Bickle

W45 Emma Jarrett

W65 Sue Hartley

W70 Noreen Ives

M12 Joseph Blanchflower

M14 Erik Biernacki-Jablonski

M16 Chun Ho Andre Fu

M50 Stephen Borrill

Full results from the event can be found on the SOS website here, and a list of all the EA Champions can be viewed on the EAOA website.

Report on our Annual Prizegiving and AGM 2025

Our Annual prizegiving and AGM was held on 22nd March 2025 at the Clay Farm Centre in Trumpington.

Our new Secretary, Jonathan Ward, was voted in at this meeting, officially taking over from Jenny Hunt who is standing down after many years as club secretary.

A copy of the AGM minutes is here.

In addition, a summary report on the prizegiving, including a list of award recipients and photos from the event, can be viewed as a PDF file here.

The Captain's Report is here.

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.

In any case, we welcome articles from club members - we can publish these on teh website as individual items event when they are not collected into a perdiodical magazine. Please send contributions to editor@waoc.org.uk.

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 those with sufficient scores):

No women ran more than 2 events.

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.