President’s Welcome

Kia ora all. NWOC has had a successful period running 2 high quality rogaines on interesting areas. I really love how we use these rogaines to showcase some of the diverse terrain we have in the Auckland region and challenge the narrative that all we have are sand dunes. At these events we gave away free entry vouchers to volunteers who worked at these rogaines and will continue to do so moving forward. So if you want your future events costs to vanish, then it could be as easy as helping to set up a tent, collect controls, or come up with a new job that improves the quality of our events.

Read on for news about an upcoming club training and social event. 

Newsletter Contents

• Event Calendar
• Next NWOC Events
• Advance Dates  
• NWOC Club Training & Social get-together
• NZ Teams
• Club member profile Charli Spence
• Rogaine Reflections
• QB Weekend
• North West Facebook Group
• Katoa Po Review
• New Members

Event Calendar

All upcoming events in the wider Auckland area are listed on our NWOC website here .
New Zealand wide events are on Orienteering New Zealand’s website here

Check the links above for details of events coming soon including;

• Auckland Orienteering Club’s Winter Sprint Series
• Auckland Orienteering Series Events e.g. AOS 8 on Sunday 3 July hosted by CMOC

NWOC Events
Sunday 26 June; NWOC Bivouac Outdoor Rogaine #3 Riverhead Forest 
Event Details here   Enter here
NWOC members keen to volunteer to help on the day - please email Lisa Mead mead10b@gmail.com

Saturday 2 July; NWOC Club Training & Social Get Together
Venue; Slater Road, South Head (signposted from start of South Head Road, 10mins from Parakai)
Start Time; 10am
Free for NWOC members.
BYO food and water.  Maps and map bags provided.
Aimed especially at new club members but there will be something for everyone.  We’d love experienced members to come and help and get to know new members.
Please RSVP to Rob at rgmg@xtra.co.nz by Wednesday 29 June.  We need RSVPS as numbers are needed for planning and map-printing purposes.

Sunday 10 July 
AOS 9 Woodhill Forest - Hucks Avenue (forest entry via Rimmers Road).  
Event details here 

Major Events

Saturday 16 July; NZSS Rogaine Championships hosted by Orienteering Taranaki
3 & 6 hour courses for students and a 5 hour course for adults
Event details here
 
Sunday 17 – Tuesday 19 July; NISS Champs hosted by Auckland Orienteering Club
Event details here 

Thursday 19 – Saturday 23 July; NZSS Champs hosted by Counties Manukau Orienteering Club
Event details here 

Sunday 18 September; Auckland Inter-Club Sprint Relay hosted by North West
Save the date so you can join a North West team as we compete against Auckland and Counties Manukau Clubs in this annual event.  
Event details here 

Sunday 17 October; North West Club Champs as part of AOS12
Event details coming. 

Labour Weekend; Tūāraki North Regional Champs 2022 - hosted by North West
Saturday 22 October to Monday 24 October
Three days of classic Woodhill Forest terrain. Maps include the northern reaches of the 2017 World Masters final Hedley Dunes map and the 2021 NZ Champs Karaka Swamp map. Much of the terrain has only been used once. Maps will be updated in mid-2022.
Event details here

New Zealand Secondary Schools Team for 2022

Congratulations to North West member Charli Spence who has been selected in the NZSS representative team, known as the Southern Cross Team, to compete in the Australian Schools Champs in September 2022.  Charli will compete as a Junior Girl - read on to learn about Charli's path to being selected in this team.

Number of years orienteering
I have been orienteering for 4 years, since 2018

How were you introduced to orienteering?
Kaye Griffiths from school (Pinehurst) got Mum to come to an event and Mum thought I would enjoy it

Key orienteering achievements to date
Achievements: 1st AKSS Sprint Series 2021, 3rd Club Nationals Long 2021, 2nd NZSS Sprint 2021, 2nd NISS Sprint, 2nd NISS Long, 1st overall, combined results from NISS

Current orienteering project or goal
I would love to successfully compete at red 4 and place in the top 10 in my age group nationally 

What's your favourite orienteering map and why
One of my current favourite maps is Mairetahi forest in South Head where we competed for AOS 2 this year.  It was a lovely area with a nice combination of green and white forest as well as open grass areas. My other favourite would be The Rockery, (Onewhero) where we competed for the Junior Camp last year. As much as I do not like farmland this place was amazing with the huge boulders and interesting features as well the beautiful view

Name a map you have yet to experience but aspire to orienteer on
I would like to orienteer on the Nelson map from nationals this year as I was unwell and able to compete

Who is your orienteering hero
I look up to Tegan Knightbridge, she has been apart of my orienteering journey since the beginning and supporting me as I grew

What's your day job?
I am a Student 

What are your interests outside orienteering?
I have limited other interests as school, work (local cafe) and orienteering/training keep me busy, but I love to be social.

Bivouac Outdoor Rogaine Series for 2022

North West members in action at Rogaines 1 and 2
Photo credits Andrew de L’Isle, Steve Knowles, Gordon Holmes & Jenny Cade

Queens Birthday Weekend 

Several North West members headed south to Manawatu at Queen’s Birthday weekend to participate in the events hosted by Orienteering Wellington. Two Middle events either side of a Long were held at Parewanui, near Bulls on classic terrain of pine forest on sand dunes. 

Notable results for North West members are:
- Men’s Elite; North West Life Member, Matt Ogden, and Club President Gene Beveridge finished first and second respectively in each event. 
- Women’s Elite; Jula McMillan - second in the first Middle event on the Saturday
- M20; Cameron Bonar - second in the Middle event on Saturday
- W40; Lise Turner - second in each event
- M40; Rob Murphy - third in the Long on Sunday
- W50; Marquita Gelderman - second in each event
- W60; Lisa Mead – first in the Middle event on Saturday
- W60; Pip Poole – second in the Long on Sunday
- M60; Geoff Mead - second in the Long on Sunday
- W70; Mary Moen – second in both the Long on Sunday & the middle on Monday
- M70; Rob Garden - first in the Long on Sunday

Well done everyone!

Photo of Lisa & Geoff Mead - photo credit Mary Moen

North West Facebook Group and other communication

Please note that this group has been closed and all communication to North West members will now be via direct email to members and/or advised via our main Facebook page and Instagram. 

Katoa Po Review

Taupo Orienteering Club is reviewing its annual night relay event, Katoa Po, and is seeking comments from anyone who’s participated in the event. Please complete a short survey using the link below - all feedback is valued and appreciated, thank you.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0Mb3c5XUNgqn3aJ5Kgw_t55FEusYaAdqvZAfBdsXyW04jRg/viewform?usp=sf_link
All  surveys completed by Friday 24 June will go into a draw for a $50  Gift card.

New Members

A warm welcome to new members Jessica Picard, Sophie Sun, Lesa Lomas, Cath Heppelthwaite and Hilary McIntyre.

Good luck to NWOC members competing internationally

All the best to North West members Gene Beveridge and Cameron Bonar who head overseas soon to represent New Zealand.  Gene will compete in the Sprint World Orienteering Champs to be held in Denmark from 26-30 June and Cameron will compete at JWOC, the Junior World Orienteering Champs, to be held in Portugal from 10 to 16 July.