WAGAL Winners 2025

The overall totals of our WAGAL league are now finalised for 2025 following our event at Mildenhall North on 30th November, which was the last of the five WAGAL scoring event of the year.

The WAGAL scoreboard shows the final standings.

The overall winner is Dil Wetherill, with the next two highest scorers being the contenders for the top female score: Emma Jarrett and Sue Hartley. Emma ends up ahead by the narrowest of margins, having earned extra points for organising an event earlier in the year.

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.

WAOC at the CompassSport Cup Final

Many thanks to the 39 WAOC members (and that includes 10 Juniors) who ran for their club despite the parking issues and the incessant rain!

Honorary Memberships awarded (updated)Recognising lifetime contributions to the club and to the sport

As part of the club's 50th anniversary celebrations, honorary memberships have been awarded to

• Hally Hardie
• David Peregrine
• Ursula Oxburgh
• Anne Duncumb
• Peter Duncumb
• Peter Allen

You can find out more about the recipients in the Spring 2023 issue of JabberWAOC.

WAOC claim the Icenian Trophy at the Chasing Sprints

WAOC won the Icenian Trophy, which CUOC award to the best club team performance at their biennial Icenian competition. This year, the Icenian event was an urban race in chasing sprint format, which made for a fun event with a chance to socialise between the morning Prologue race and the afternoon Final.

50th Anniversary EventPhotos from Maulden Wood

Here are some more pictures from the Maulden event on 15th January 2023, marking the 50th anniversary since the club's first event.

East Anglian Championships - WAOC Winners2022 Champs were at our Bromehill event on 27th November

Congratulations to all WAOC members who won in their category at the 2022 East Anglian Championships:

Elysia Cowe (W10), Alex Darwin (M12), Chun Yan Alistair Fu (M14), Dil Wetherill (M55), Jenny Carlsson (W35), Helen Bickle (W40), Camilla Darwin (W50), Sue Hartley (W65), and Hazel Bickle (W70).

Stephen Borrill nominated for Development & Innovation Award

Our new club chair, Stephen Borrill, was recently nominated for British Orienteering's Development & Innovation Award for 2022, for creating the MapRun.uk website. This is the first time this award has been, ermm, awarded, and so there was strong competition, not least from Peter Effeney, based in Australia, who invented the MapRun app. Although Stephen did not receive the award this time, we are proud to see his work recognised.

You can see a profile of Stephen and the other nominees, on the British Orienteering website here.