We are delighted to announce the appointment of Nikki Howard to the SOA staff team as Events & Operations Manager. Nikki brings with her extensive experience in organising events for her club Moravian and also from being assistant day organiser on day 3 (Arisaig) of Scottish 6 Days last year. She will be taking on much of the work previously done by Colin Matheson who retired in 2021, including assisting clubs with access for events and working to evolve our partnerships with Forestry & Land Scotland and other organsations. As part of the operations component of the role, Nikki will work to support the ongoing development of our network of event planners, controllers and will work with clubs to coordinate the event calendar in future years.
Ahead of the 2022 Scottish Night Championships due to be held on the 12th February at Braid Hills (Edinburgh) organised by ESOC, there have been some amendments to the rule and guidelines for the Scottish Night Championships. We have published the rules and guidelines here
If you are interested in more details about the Scottish Night Championships, have a look here Entries are still available
After the success and positive feedback from last year’s Scottish Junior Cup we plan to repeat the competition this year, with a set of 3 junior focussed weekends on offer.
As we’ve previously indicated we’re going to make a change to the inter club championships in 2022. Currently it is awarded to the club with the most points scored at the Scottish Individual Championships and it seems that most competitors are blissfully unaware of it.
We are keen to introduce a competition that encourages more participation at a range of events across Scotland, provides more motivation for juniors and engenders more club spirit. As ever there are numerous ways that we could do this (and even more opinions) but we have landed on a club league system that we will try in 2022, and review again for 2023 based on lessons learned.
What better way to close the year than get excited about what is in store for 2022?
We want to give you plenty of time to plan your orienteering year! So we are delighted to publish our proposed events calendar before we close the office in 2021. There are still a few dates to firm up and we hope to provide you confirmed schedule for the popular Scottish Junior Cup events early in 2022….watch this space for more details.
2020’s Scottish Night Championships will be hosted by Moravian at the popular site of Findhorn on the Moray Coast. Saturday 15th February will see all competitors don headtorches and set out on their courses to see who will be crowned Scottish Night Champions! Be sure to enter before Sunday’s closing date!
In celebration of 2019 being the 21st Year of The Glasgow
Parks Champs / 3 Parks In 1 Day event, STAG Orienteering Club is introducing a new
Team Sprint Relay – named DU’O’ – on Saturday 30 November.
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!
