In December 2016 and January 2017 the South African Orienteering Federation held 2 orienteering training courses in KwaZulu Natal. These courses were held on behalf of the KwaZulu Natal Department of Sport & Recreation. Two members of the Polokwane Orienteering Club (POC) were invited to assist the SAOF’s team that presented the courses. Click here to read their report
It is with great pleasure that the SAOF Selection Committee announces that the team that will represent South Africa at JWOC in 2017 are as follows (in alphabetical order):
JWOC
Christie Courtnage, Carl Holmes and Andries Swart
We congratulate them and wish them all the best in their training over the next few weeks as they prepare for this important competition
Kind regards,
Tania Wimberley
Chair – SAOF Selection Committee
selection_committee@orienteering.co.za
The SAOF is pleased to announce that Tania Wimberley has been appointed as the National Coach from 1 April 2017 until 30 September 2018.
24th May is World Orienteering Day
We would love to see people of all ages taking part in an
Orienteering event.
Join people from all over the world and try to beat last
year’s record in which over 250 000 took part in an event
in over 2013 venues
In South Africa help us double our participation from 2016
in which we had more than 1120 people taking part in events
at 14 locations around the country.
For more details about the activities in South Africa information check out the dedicated page on this website or go directly to the World Orienteering Day website.
School Orienteering has gone from strength to strength in recent years and has now become a most competitive sport with top achieving schools being neck in neck for first position. Congratulations to all schools that took part this year.
The Gauteng Schools league has been running since 2000 and it is wonderful to see how it has grown in numbers as well as schools represented. This year pupils from 18 different schools participated. 433 athletes took part in at least one League event and the record number of participants was 381 competitors who completed courses at Parktown. We had an especially large group of 119 Junior Girls. Congratulations to Jeppe Girls who had so many athletes competing this year. We also had 30 Primary School pupils who bravely and most competently went out on our Junior Courses.
For full article click here
SA Orienteering Championships is being held on the weekend of 23 – 25 September 2017 at Maretlwane – North West Province. Find out all you need to know here.
The SAOF is pleased to announce that Sarah Pope and Andries Swart will be accompanying the 2017 JWOC Team to Finland as Coach and Manager respectively.
A record number of 381 pupils from 18 different schools took part in our first League event.
After a very wet start to the season at our Helpmekaar training event 381 athletes from 18 different schools enjoyed our first league event held at Parktown Boys.
A special welcome to our new Primary school pupils from Canterbury and Radford and High school pupils from Acres Academy and Parktown Boys.
Thank you to Helpmekaar Kollege for allowing us to host our training event at their school. Well done to Andries Swart, who with the assistance of Carl Holmes, updated the map and planned challenging courses. Many thanks to the large group of Club Orienteering volunteers who came and helped out in spite of the pouring rain. After heavy downpours the skies thankfully cleared enough for 133 competitors to still be able to go out and enjoy the event.
FOR COMPLETE ARTICLE : Fantastic start to our OSL 2017 season
(MARGATE SCHOOL SPORTS FACILITY, KWAZULU-NATAL) 19- 22 JANUARY 2017
The P.O.C committee and all its affiliated athletes, would first and foremost, love to appreciate the wonderful support we continue to receive from all our stakeholders (all affiliated orienteering clubs & all involved parties) without their constant support P.O.C would not be where it is today.
Last of all, to our amazing federation (South African Orienteering Federation), the support we continue to receive from S.A.O.F is incomparable, and our recent trip to the KZN“O” project just serves as a clear indication of their outstanding backing & patronage of P.O.C, & duly underscores the aforementioned credits.
For complete article : KZN ORIENTEERING PROJECT 2017