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Happy January! Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
Orienteer of the Year Awards
Orienteer of the Year : Alison Crocker, CSU
Honorable Mention: Sharon Crawford, RMOC and Pavlina Brautigam, WCOC.
Junior of the Year: Ethan Childs, GMOC
Honorable Mention: Isabel Bryant, CSU.
Comet of the Year: Tom Puzak, MNOC (MTBO)
Team of the Year: World Games Team - Eric Bone, COC; Alison Crocker, CSU; Samantha Saeger, NEOC; Ross Smith, CSU.
The Awards Committee consists of: Boris Granovskiy, Patrick Nuss, Linda Worner, Peter Gagarin and Peter Goodwin. More information about the accomplishments will be posted on the Orienteering USA website and other places. The awards, except for the team award, carry a $500 travel grant award. Congratulations to all awardees!
You Can Design Team USA's Uniforms
Team USA will be wearing new uniforms in 2014 and you can design them. The contest entry rules are online on the OUSA website here. Entries must be submitted by January 31, 2014. First prize is $250 plus a Team USA kit.
Welcome Get Lost!! and TerraLoco
Congratulations to Vladimir Gusiatnikov’s Get Lost!! , and Rex Winterbottom’s Terraloco organizations, who have become Supporting Members of Orienteering USA. Effective immediately, their local and regional events are sanctioned by Orienteering USA. This will give you more local options to orienteer without putting undue demand on our clubs.
If you know of a race organizer who would be interested in applying to be a Supporting Member email Glen.
Thank You OUSA Sponsors
The list of OUSA sponsors continue to grow. Thanks to these great supporters of Orienteering USA
- SciMeasure: Team USA’s Senior Team
- Kentucky Sports Authority: Development of orienteering in the state of Kentucky
- Butler County Visitors Bureau: 2014 Flying Pig and OUSA Interscholastic National Championships
- Monroe County Sports: 2014 OUSA Individual Championships
- Choice: Orienteering USA
- Hertz: Orienteering USA
Senior and Junior Standing Teams Selected
Congratulations to the following orienteers who have been selected to Team USA’s standing teams.
Senior Elite Team: Ali Crocker, Hannah Culberg, Alex Jospe, Kseniya Popova, Samantha Saeger, Giacomo Barbone, Eric Bone, Boris Granovskiy, Wyatt Riley, Ross Smith, Sergei Zhyk
Senior Performance Team: Alison Campbell, Cristina Luis, Eddie Bergeron, Ethan Childs, Brendan Shields, Ian Smith, Ken Walker, Jr.
Senior Development Team: Anna Shafer-Skelton, Greg Ahlswede, Andrew Childs, William Enger, Jacob Grant, William Miller, Nathan Orwaschel, Erin Schirm, Zachary Shroeder, Carl Underwood, John Hensley Williams
Junior/ Young Women: Brigitte Bordelon, Evalin Brautigam, Anna Breton, Elina Breton, Isabel Bryant, Addie Nolan, Melanie Sergiev, Katrina Weinmann, Anne Wilkinson, Julia Zielczynska
Junior/ Young Men: Zac Barker, Addison Bosley, Ethan Childs, Austin Fowler, Connor Frost, Will Hubsch, Michael Laraia, Mathew Rogers, Matej Sebo, Hans Sitarz, Matt Stout, Noah Van Gorder
Junior Team News
Remember, there is still time to sign up for the Advanced Orienteer Training Camp. It will be held February 14-19 in Arizona and is open to all advanced orienteers. There will be a special focus on intermediate and advanced juniors. Email Barb Bryant.
Club News - Insurance Certificates and Charter Forms
The 2014 insurance certificate application forms are online. Just visit www.orienteeringusa.org. Also, club charter renewal forms are now due.
- March 14 – 16: OUSA Ski Orienteering Championships (CSU, GMOC – Stowe, VT)
- March 21 – 23: Run Black Diamond/ Team USA Trials A-meet (Get Lost!! – Concord, CA)
- April 4 – 6: OUSA Interscholastic Championships & Flying Pig XVII (OCIN – Oxford, OH)
- April 12 -13: 35th West Point A-Meet (USMAOC – West Point, NY)
- April 26-27: OUSA Relay and Intercollegiate Championships (DVOA – Fair Hill, MD & Newark, DE)
- May 30 – June 1: Boggs Mountain A-meet (BAOC – Cobb, CA)
- August 9 – 10: OUSA Two-Day Classic Championships (RMOC – Woodland Park, CO)
- August 10: OUSA Annual General Meeting (OUSA – Woodland Park, CO)
- September 13 – 21: OUSA National Orienteering Week (OUSA – Nationwide)
- September 27 – 28: O’ in the Oaks A-meet (BAOC – San Jose, CA)
- October 3 – 5: OUSA Individual Championships (ROC – Portageville, NY)
- October 10 – 13: North American Orienteering Championships (Ottawa Orienteering Club – Amprior, Canada)
- October 25 – 26: Hudson Valley Orienteering A-meet (HVO and WCOC – North Salem, NY)
For the latest nationally sanctioned A-meet schedule visit www.orienteeringusa.org and click on “Find a National Event”.
We’ll see you in the woods.
Peter Goodwin – President
Glen Schorr – Executive Director
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