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.

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.

WAOC Winners in the UK Urban League 2024

The 2024 UK Urban League is now complete and winners have been decided. Amongst them were two from WAOC:

Alys ("Perfect 500") Powell in Womens Young Junior category, and Hebe Darwin, first in the Womens Open.

Congratulations to both, and well done too to the 4 runners up from WAOC:

Hana Powell (WYJ), Erik Biernacki-Jablonski (MJ), Kate Jarrett (WJ), and Camilla Darwin (WV).

More details on the 2024 UK League results can be found here.

Compass Sport Cup final 2024WAOC come 6th

On 20th October 34 WAOC members travelled to Holcombe Moors in Lancashire to take part in the 2024 final of the Compass Sport competition. WAOC came 6th ranked team in the Cup (for larger clubs). Congratulations to everyone for getting round successfully, surviving both the weather and unexploded ordnance on the hill. Everyone contributed and it was gratifying to see scorers from W12 to W70, with some great performances. WAOC were only one of two teams whose 25 scorers came from all 12 possible scoring classes, which really speaks to the depth of participation and quality in the team.

Individual results can be found here.

Park-O is backComing soon to a park in Cambridge

Park-O returns for 2024-2025. The courses will change slightly compared to previously, but will still be held 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