Orienteering NSW

Coming Events

map	Sat 15 Aug 12:00 am 2026 NSW State League #11 - NSW Schools Champs (Middle Distance) - Orange Pineview, Oaky Creek Lane off the Mitchell Highway, between Bathurst and Orange.

map	Sun 16 Aug 12:00 am 2026 NSW State League #12 - NSW Schools Champs (Sprint Distance) - Orange Kinross Wolaroi School, 59/67 Bathurst Rd, Orange NSW 2800

map	Sun 16 Aug 12:00 am Sydney MapRun #15 Normanhurst 10 - 16 August Normanhurst Oval, Harris Rd, Normanhurst

Mon 17 Aug 11:59 pm

NSW Orienteering Running Shirts and Singlets

map	Tue 18 Aug 10:00 am 2026 Hunter Regional Schools Championships - Raymond Terrace Boomerang Park, Raymond Terrace

Tue 18 Aug 10:00 am

2026 Hunter Regional Schools Championships - SCORE COURSE

Boomerang Park, Raymond Terrace

Tue 18 Aug 7:00 pm

ONSW Purple Pen workshop (online)

map	Sat 22 Aug 9:30 am Saturday Orienteering Series - Arcadia Vision Valley, 7 Vision Valley Rd, Arcadia, NSW, 2159 (this is Pymble Ladies' College experiential learning campus).

map	Sun 23 Aug 12:00 am Sydney MapRun #16 - Artarmon 17-23 August Artarmon Reserve, Burra Road, Artarmon

map	Sun 23 Aug 9:30 am Newcastle NOY8 - Neath (North Neath) “North Neath”. Scale 1:10 000. 5m contours. Drawn by Denis Lyons. Updated 2026.

Congratulations to our NSW Stingers Nea Shingler and Erika Enderby, who both qualified for the 2026 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Italy after outstanding results at the Oceania Sprint Championships held on the Central Coast. An amazing result against Australia and New Zealand's top elite orienteers.

Nea dominated the Knockout Sprint to win every race from the qualifier to the final, while Erika won the W20E Sprint by a big 49 second margin and was also the fastest overall,15 seconds faster than the W21E winner, to secure her spot.

The WOC Sprint carnival will be held in Genova in Italy from 6th-11th July 2026. Good luck to Nea and Erika!

Congratulations to the ONSW 2025 Encouragement Award Winner - Matthew Slater (GS)

Throughout the year, Matthew took a very active role in organising orienteering events. He coordinated a Map Run for both the permanent course and the street series in February, was responsible for organising Day 3 of the KB3 event and set up, managed, and ran the orienteering competition for the eight-day Games. Matthew is also a member of the ONSW Events working group. The mapping and technical support contribution by Matthew was also considerable - re-mapping Scots All Saints College for the KB3 event and involvement in creating various base maps. He has also contributed to the Goldseekers club by organising and operating the computer system for events.

Matthew's involvement as a competitor has been extensive, at local, state and national level. Internationally, he also completed in the New Zealand KB3 and at O’Ringen in Sweden. Among his competitive achievements, he finished second in the Orienteer of the Year (OY) M16 division and was selected to represent Australia in the European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) in Brno, Czech Republic in the M16 category.

Congratulations to the ONSW 2025 Volunteer of the Year Award Winner - Sue Froude (IKO)

Sue has served as IKO club secretary for an exceptionally long period, displaying impressive efficiency in organising club meetings and coordinating club committee members. Course controlling and event management are other areas where Sue volunteers, including controlling Sydney Summer Series events. Sue is also a highly active mapper for IKO, having produced numerous urban maps across Sydney including Surry Hills, Kings Cross, Queens Park, Double Bay and Darling Point, Yarra Bay, La Perouse, The Corridor (Kirrawee), Sutherland, and Bado-Berong Creek (Sans Souci).

Beyond her organisational and mapping efforts, Sue is prolific in managing IKO's Facebook page, being especially active in advertising upcoming events and promoting participation.

Congratulations to the ONSW 2025 Course Setter of the Year Award Winner - Geoff Peel (NC)

The winner of the 2025 Course Setter of the Year Award, by a clear margin, was Geoff Peel for his outstanding work on State League #11 at Salt Ash (Oakvale). The event was expertly overseen by controllers Margaret Peel and Stephen Craig, whose guidance contributed to the event’s success.

Although it has not traditionally been our practice to publish the runners up, last year they were acknowledged, and we have continued that approach here to celebrate the outstanding contributions of our course setters:

2nd Place: Tony Woolford - NSW Middle Distance Championships at Glenburnie.
3rd Place: Cooper Horley - NSW Sprint Championships at Macquarie University.
4th Place: Karen Langen - KB-III Middle Distance at Kahli’s Rocks.