East Anglian Champions

Several WAOC members won their classes at the East Anglian Championships at Writtle Forest today (25th).

M10: Alex Darwin

M16: Sam Hague

M21: Andrew Stemp

W45: Camilla Darwin

M45: Stephen Borrill

M50: Dil Wetherill

W60: Janet Cronk

W65: Noreen Ives

M70: Mike Bickle

M75: Chris Morley

Milton AGM - Score Course results

Thanks to all who braved the wintery conditions on Saturday to go out on a lamppost safari (or marker post safari for the junior course).

The results do depend somewhat on luck, as I did not reveal which of the original control sites had the maps showing the locations of the extra controls. In retrospect I should probably have added that information.

The results are are as follows:

Junior 30 minute score

Daniel Hague 28:50 210 points (including extras), no penalty Score 210

Caitlin Dunning 28:16 100 points, no penalty Score 100

Senior 45 minute score

Stephen Borrill 42:44 290 points (including extras) no penalty Score 290

Bruce Marshall 42:32 180 points (including extras) no penalty Score 180

Sean Blanchflower 33:56 160 points no penalty Score 160

Sue Woods 44:49 150 points (including extras) no penalty Score 150

EA League award presentation2017 awards were presented at Shouldham Warren

The awards were given by Paul Beckett, Chair of EAOA, after the completion of the CompassSport Qualifier match. A rain shower just before the presentation explains the profusion of waterproofs amongst spectators and recipients.

WAOC winners on hand to receive their awards included Hebe Darwin, Janet Cronk, Hazel Bickle, Mike and Seonaid Dudley, and Peter Woods.

A farewell to BenA tribute to 8 years of coaching for WAOC and CUOC

A farewell was made to Ben Windsor at the clubnight on 7^th March. Chris Morley, who was WAOC Chairman when we first met Ben about 8 years ago, summarised the excellent work he has done for the club and presented Ben with a mug which featured Ben's maps.

New website launched

Welcome to our new website. It is designed to be responsive to different screen sizes and devices, as the image shows.

WAOC on Strava

Thanks to Iain Stemp, there is now a WAOC club on Strava:

You can fined this here: www.strava.com/clubs/WAOC

or search for 'West Anglian Orienteering Club' in the club search on Strava.

Trophy recallPlease return WAOC trophies for engraving to Anne by middle of February

Our annual prizegiving and AGM will be on 17 March in Milton.
Anne will arrange for the club trophies to be engraved with the 2017
winners' names, but she needs the trophies to be returned to her by mid
February at the latest.

So - if you have a WAOC trophy, please can you pass it on to myself or
another committee member e.g. at an event, or make your own arrangements
to return the item to Anne by mid-February.

WAOC Winners in 2017 EA League

Congratulations to the WAOC category winners in the East Anglian League for 2017.

The full league table can be found on the League page of the EA website.

The presentation of trophies will be at the CSC Qualifier event at Shouldham Warren on 11 March.

WAGAL 2018Latest news on the club league

The list of WAGAL events for 2018 will appear here soon. The first event this year yielding WAGAL points will be the CompassSport Cup Qualifier at Shouldham Warren on 11th March.

The winners for 2017 are revealed here.

Colour Coded BadgesAwards for progress in Orienteering

Colour coded badges are intended to give Orienteers of all ages a target to aim for. This article explains more about the scheme and how to earn a badge.