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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 was made to Ben Windsor at the clubnight on 7th 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.
A thank you to Ben Windsor, Level2 coach.
We are sorry to have to tell you all that Ben Windsor and Zuzka are moving on to London for work reasons on 21st March and will no longer be with the club at our training nights.
Ben did may things for many years for our club although absolutely a member of CUOC from coming up to Cambridge as a Maths undergraduate. As he leaves in 2018 to join a London club I am equally absolutely assured that DRONGO will be his number one club.
In the early days of clubnights (organised and overseen by Caroline, Ursula, and Chris), Ben was the regular (every week) coach to the juniors and to them was the image of our club. Whilst Peter Allen and Helen Bickle coordinated later on Ben enabled us to expand our clubnight orienteering by mapping many sites in and around Cambridge.
Time passes and now Ben joins another part of the orienteering community and he will no longer be seen with us helping at WAOC events or at the PuntO as a member of the usually winning team (see photo below). However memories remain and we will always have the many moments learning skills at training evenings from maps usually made by Ben himself of Cambridge colleges or University sites.
I hope that when members of the Club meet Ben at JK, Lakes 5 days, or Scottish six days or even perhaps at events in Europe we will be able to join with him perhaps at a club dinner. We certainly wish Ben and Zuzka every orienteering success and happiness in the future.
Welcome to our new website. It is designed to be responsive to different screen sizes and devices, as the image shows.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Congratulations to Alex Wetherill for coming 3rd in the M14 class at the Scottish 6 Days, based in Royal Deeside.
Congratulations to all the winners and especially Helen O on Seniors, Stephen on Vets and Sam on Juniors!