Month: June 2019

In early May the Scotland team headed to the World Schools Championships Orienteering in Otepää, Estonia, and you can now read the full, detailed reports written by Angus Ivory and Iris MacMillan.

The deadline for entries for this year’s Sprint Scotland is this Sunday 16th June – so orienteers are encouraged to sign up fast for one of the summer’s key orienteering events.

Celebrating volunteers who help put together fantastic orienteering events across Scotland, today we’re saying thank you to STAG’s Gerry Thomson & John McKendrick!

Thanks to the great feedback we received throughout Volunteers’ Week, we’re continuing to celebrate volunteers who help put on orienteering events across Scotland, and today we’re saying thank you to KFO’s John Emeleus & Matthew Clark!

An impressive 110 Junior orienteers from all over Scotland converged on Kingussie on Sunday 9^th June for the Jamie Stevenson competition – the annual junior inter-club competition, where juniors from all Scottish clubs battle it out for their club to be crowned champions. 

SCORE orienteering magazine’s June 2019 issue is now available to download for anyone interested in orienteering in Scotland for Scottish Orienteering members.

Entries for the 28 June JOK Chasing Sprint at Callendar Park – which will be broadcast live on BBC TV – close on Thursday 13 June – so orienteers are encouraged to enter online now!

Some 350 children from upper primary age to the upper age in secondary schools poured into Hopetoun House Gardens near South Queensferry on Friday 7^th June 2019 for the 2019 Scottish Schools Festival.

What do you think would make the biggest difference to orienteering in Scotland in the next 4 years? Do you have ideas and inspiration that can help structure our work for the best outcomes?

The weekend marks the start of the international orienteering season, with the first World Cup races of 2019 to be held in Finland. Great Britain are taking a team of 11 athletes, including the Scots Jo Sheperd, Jess Halliday, Alasdair McLeod, Hector Haines and Alexander Chepelin.