OV 2016 Yearbook

yearbook Orienteering Victoria/ 2016

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Contents 4

President’s Report

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Looking forward looking back

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Yearbook photo gallery

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Running with Kangaroos

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Melbourne Sprint Weekend

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The Flying Finns

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Victorian MTBO

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Sprint into Spring

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Ian Johnston

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An orienteering map in every Bendigo household

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A funny thing happened on the way to the O-shop

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Funded projects

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Sharing and streamlining

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How active will you be in 2017?

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Results

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Financial statement

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Officers 2016

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Cover photograph: Competitors at the Ruffey Lake Park Sprint event. Photo by Susan Guinane The 2016 Orienteering Victoria Yearbook has been designed by Dion Keech

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President's report Outgoing VOA President Bruce Arthur reports on 7 Orienteering highlights during his tenure W ORDS BRUC E ARTHUR P HOTOGR APH SUSAN GUINANE

7 Up 2016 was another successful year for Orienteering Victoria. But for my final report as President of Orienteering, I thought I would reflect on some of the highlights of my 7 years in the role. So here is my top 7 highlights of orienteering in Victoria from 2010-2017. #7 MelBushO This innovative series of events has provided a way to bring bush orienteering closer to the large population of Melbourne. Regular venues such as Plenty Gorge, Woodlands, You Yangs and many parks along the Yarra have been extremely popular with experienced members, families and newcomers. MelBushO would not have happened without leadership from Ruth Goddard (Yarra Valley). Ruth has built this series into one of Orienteering Victoria’s great success stories. Well done Ruth! #6 Park & Street Championships & Millennium Club Our Park & Street orienteering series continues to thrive with over 200 events each year. In 2013, our Urban Orienteering committee introduced the idea of a Park & Street Championship, bringing together the top runners and walkers from each of our different series to see who could claim to be the best in each course under the pressure of a final. This has now been conducted on 5 occasions, with the final location alternating between East, West, North and South locations.

Ray Howe does a fantastic job administering the championships, determining who has qualified for each

division, and encouraging entrants from as far away as Macedon and Geelong.

On top of this, Ray also keeps tally of event participation, and is responsible for tracking who is eligible for induction into Millennium Club membership, a club reserved for those with over 500, 750 or 1000 Park & Street events since the year 2000. It is remarkable how many people have now qualified for Millennium Club membership. Congratulations to all inductees!

Both the Park & Street Championships and the Millennium Club have been great initiatives from Ray Howe and the Urban Orienteering committee. #5 International Coaching Scholars It has been wonderful to host specialist orienteering coaches from Europe over the last 3 years. We have had the opportunity to host Thor Norskov & Jacob Edsen from Denmark, Ralph Street & Peter Bray from Great Britain, and Noora Koskinen & Lotta Kirvesmies from Finland. Special thanks to all of our host families who have made this possible. This has allowed us to bring a little piece of European orienteering to Australia.

Our latest scholar, Mikkel Kaae-Nielsen, from Denmark has just arrived in Melbourne. He will be here in Victoria for the next six months, helping our members to become better orienteers. This visit is particularly useful as Mikkel will be here for coaching during our main bush orienteering season. #4 2013 Australian 3-Day Championship Carnival and Eventor Orienteering Victoria has a superb track record of organising significant national carnival events. This was demonstrated

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once again at Easter in 2013 near Bendigo. All locations were easily accessible, and Bendigo had the opportunity to showcase why it is one of the best locations for orienteering in Australia. Over 4 days of the Easter weekend, orienteers experienced varied and complex terrains. This consisted of the urban sprint at La Trobe University, a rare opportunity to run inside the fence on goldmining terrain at Yorkshire Hill, complex granite at Mt Alexander, and spur gully terrain at Crusoe.

Another feature, and lasting legacy for major events, was that this was the first major carnival to use the Eventor entry management system. Many thanks to Craig Feuerherdt for his tireless efforts in managing the implementation of this system in Australia. It is now the standard for all orienteering events run by the International Orienteering Federation, Sweden, Australia and several other countries. Like all systems, it has a couple of quirky features and can take a bit of getting used to, but overall it has saved both participants and event organisers many hours once familiar with how to use it.

#3 2015 Australian Championship Carnival and High Performance Team Success The 2015 Australian Championship Carnival was a true showcase of orienteering in Victoria. The goldmining terrain near Creswick was superb, and all events were organised very smoothly, led by Mark Valentine and Mark Hennessy, along with a highly skilled team of course setters and on the day helpers from each of our clubs.

A feature of the carnival was hosting the Australian Schools Orienteering Championship, bringing together the best school aged orienteers from around Australia and New Zealand.

Orienteering Victoria introduced the Sprint Distance event at Federation University for the first time in the Australian Schools Orienteering Championships.

As well as running a magnificent carnival, Orienteering Victoria was also successful in the forest. Victoria won both of the overall team titles being contested on the final weekend of the carnival. Both were contested across the full range of age classes: the Orienteering Australia Shield at the Australian

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Long Distance Championships, and the Xanthorrhoea Trophy at the Australian Relays. Victoria were convincing winners over New South Wales in the OA Shield, but the relays were a closerrun thing, with the Victorians only edging out NSW by two points. Our Junior Men also won the National Orienteering League for 2015, with our remaining 3 teams finishing in 2nd place.

In fact it has been a successful period for our high performance teams, including many wins to our NOL teams, and also a national championship to our Victorian Schools Orienteering Team in 2013. #2 Sprint into Spring Orienteering Victoria’s “Sprint Into Spring” events are short distance, fast paced races held in small, self contained areas with many complex features, such as parks or campuses. Maps are full colour and large scale, with a high level of detail.

Sprint orienteering is about thinking and racing hard simultaneously, focusing on quick decision making. These events are fairly simple to navigate at a walk or slow jog, but the task is more demanding at high speed, especially when faced with multiple legs featuring constant changes of direction and route choice.

This series commenced in 2013 and has grown significantly each year. A feature is the special yellow, green and polkadot jersey awards for each class, which adds a lot of interest for people of all abilities. The series continues to be a tremendous success, and will be conducted again in October and November 2017. Congratulations to the organising team for your innovations and making sprint distance orienteering a highlight of the calendar each year.

#1 2011 Oceania Orienteering Championships This was the time when Orienteering Victoria showed that we can organise world class orienteering events, and make them visible to spectators, both at the arena and anywhere in the world on the internet.

Darren Meeking’s tireless efforts helped to establish a new and innovative way to organise major carnival events in Australia.

The arena presentation was outstanding, with spectator controls, big screens, live commentary and sponsor signage.

GPS tracking was used to display the location and progress of the elite orienteers on the big screen.

The maps and terrain were world class. The Warby Range provided the challenge of granite and big hills for the Oceania Long Distance Championships, and we were introduced to the remarkable new terrain at Rowdy Flat for the Oceania Middle Distance Championships. The weather was a bit wet on the Saturday, but the sun appeared and made for a glorious Sunday at Yackandandah to both compete and watch the elite races on the big screen.

With lots of help from Warren Key, Jim Russell, Christopher Naunton, Jason McCrae, Duncan Morrison and Ian Dodd, Darren and his team produced a wonderful event that has set the standard for all major carnivals in Australia since that time.

You can replay the highlights video on YouTube at: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOuKreb0uHY Orienteering continues to evolve as a sport in Victoria, and on the broader national and global scale. We are doing a lot of things right, but we need to continue to be brave and innovative to keep up with the competition from other recreational activities, and to meet the needs of today’s market.

I look forward to contributing to this in other roles within our sport. Thanks for the opportunity to lead the organisation, and for your support over this period.

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Looking Back, Looking Forward Park and Street Orienteering W ORDS DEBBIE DODD URBAN COMMI TTE E CO -CHAIR

The past …In 2016, we celebrated the 40th birthday of Park and Street orienteering, with a special anniversary event in Port Melbourne. There was a cake, and we invited competitors to dress up for the occasion – Michael Hayward’s formal attire, including top hat, was the standout.

Not long afterwards, I was presented with a copy of a research paper written in 1988, called “Orienteering in Victoria, Recommendations to Increase Participation”, by John Edwards. It was a major assignment for a graduate diploma in Marketing. At the time, participation was falling despite Victoria having hosted the very successful World Orienteering Championships a few years earlier. The report included results from a park and street survey. It was fascinating to look back and see what has changed since then, and what has remained in place.

Formats listed in the introduction include ski-o, bicycle-o, wheelchair-o, canoe-o, pony-o and underwater-o – I think all except the last have been tried (at least once).

In 1988, park and street orienteering consisted of two Summer series - an 18-event Eastern series on Wednesdays, and an 11event Western series on Tuesdays. There was a 7pm mass start, and a choice of four running line courses, on black and white maps. There was no power walking. Competitors paid their entry and received a control card, which was handed in at the finish. There were approximately 100 regular competitors (ie attending one in three events). Many participants came to only 1 or 2 events. Most regulars were VOA members. The grades offered were Open, Veteran and Junior.

The survey indicated that most people wanted to come once or twice a week, with only a handful wanting to attend 3 or4 times. Wednesday was strongly preferred, followed by Tuesday, then Thursday, Monday and Friday (Thursday events were later added to the calendar, followed by Mondays) - this mirrors current attendance patterns. Preferred distances were 10-11 kms for A, 7-8 kms for B, 5-6 kms for C, and 3-4 kms for D – the distances used today for those courses.

Competitors were not timed, but received points based on their finish order. Series placings were determined by the best 10 scores. Results were collated and series scores displayed at the following week’s event (pre internet). Cloth badges were handed out at the final event.

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Maps were placed in four separate piles on the ground, one pile per course. This resulted in an “undignified scramble” at the Go signal, and queuing at the first control

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Concerns were raised about “trampling of the small, weak and timid”. Suggestions were made to overcome these problems, including having a different first control for each course, or a staggered start. It seems surprising that a report was required to recommend a start procedure where maps were handed out 1 minute before the Go signal. The report also suggested that a score format could be used to resolve the queuing problem and “to put some brain work into the series”.

Maps in use in 1988 included Mullum Mullum, Kangaroo Flat, Blind Creek, Banyule Flat, Bundoora Parklands, Mt Dandenong (Doongalla), Koonung Heights, Bellbird Dell, Valley Reserve, Park Orchards, Studley Park, Royal Park, Blackburn Creek, Coburg Lake, Glenfern Run, Jells Park,

Brimbank Park, Nortons Park and Ruffey Lake. Some of these maps had different names.

Course setters included Peter Grover, Murray Hanna, Mike Hubbert, Barry Hart, Wally Cavill, Carolyn Jackson, Sheila Colls, Bob Leicester, Greg Tamblyn, Peter Dalwood, Phil Poulton, and Barry McCrae.

The present …As usual, we ran a busy program of 200 Park and Street events throughout the year, with the regular four Melbourne Summer Series, the regional series in Macedon, Geelong and the Surf Coast, and four Winter series including three EndurOs. The Park and Street Championships were held on the Bellbird Dell map, with suitably challenging courses set by Ron Frederick (NEV). Not only was it physically tough with plenty of hills to be climbed, but the controls within Bellbird Dell required careful map reading. The shortest courses were anything but obvious, and the winners certainly deserved their titles. While Bruce Arthur maintained his remarkable unbroken winning streak of five Championships, we saw a new Open Womens Champion when Lanita Steer outsprinted sister Asha over the last couple of hundred metres to claim the title. Ray Howe again acted as event coordinator, Pam King updated the map, and Nillumbik Emus were the host club.

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The current Champions are:

successful trial of loading score format results onto Eventor has been completed.

Mens Open

Bruce Arthur (MFV)

Mens Senior

Ian Davies (DRV)

Mens Veteran

Steven O’Connell (BKV)

Mens Super Veteran

Tony Bird (DRV)

Womens Open

Lanita Steer (DRV)

Womens Veteran

Janine Steer (DRV)

Womens Super Veteran

Carolyn Jackson (MFV)

Junior

Brody McCarthy (YVV)

Mens Open PW

Dave Stillwell (NEV)

Mens Super Veteran PW

Peter Grover (DRV)

Womens Open PW

Jo Torr (BKV)

Womens Super Veteran PW

Helen Kerley (DRV)

The Millennium Club continues to go from strength to strength, with seven new Legends inducted in 2016. As Michael Hubbert (BKV) approaches his 2000th event and three others reached the 1500 milestone, the Club now boasts 42 Legends (1000 or more events), 25 Companions (750-999 events), and 45 Associates (500-749 events). Our thanks to Ray Howe for continuing to maintain the all-important participation statistics.

Park and Street orienteering is run entirely by volunteers, and we draw heavily on a large pool of mappers, course setters, organisers, scorers, caterers, and control collectors. Some people have performed these roles for many years, with the same enthusiasm as when they started. We always encourage people to put their hand up to help out, as without volunteers, our favourite sport would not exist.

Particular thanks to: Series Coordinators - Annie Hollaway, Ian Dodd, Ken Moore, Ewen Templeton, Debbie Dodd, John and Jenny Sheahan, Allan Miller, Alan Cooke, and John and Lois Ewels Scorers - Ray Howe, Gwennyth and Andrew Baker, Mark Besley, Ian Davies, Noel McVey and Lyn and Derek Green, Don Fell Caterers – Lauris Stirling, Phil Torode/Ros King, Phil Giddings, Andrea and Lauren Jackson Fixtures – Debbie Dodd, Margi Freemantle, Ian Stirling, Andrew Hunter, John and Jenny Sheahan, Geoff Hudson Finances – Vic Sedunary Webmaster/Results – Finlay Stuart

New Legends: Tony Bird, Bernie Shuttleworth, Margi Freemantle, Dianne Shalders, Denise Pike, Stan Gurman, Reg Saunders The prestigious Course Setter of the Year award was won by Kristian Ruuska, for his Waterford Valley map, which featured in the Monday Southern Summer Series. Adjudicator Ted van Geldermalsen described the map as “a work of art”, and praised it for the many options provided on all courses.

The MEFTY award (Most Events for the Year) went to Debbie Dodd, for the second time. Debbie attended 135 events, followed by Peter Yeates and Dale Howe on 131 events each.

The Future … Park and Street orienteering has always operated on the KISS principle, and it relies heavily on a broad volunteer base. Future technology solutions need to be robust and affordable, usable by a wide range of people, with minimal instruction and equipment. Maps need to be straightforward to print and copy, and produced at a low cost.

The Park and Street Committee continues to work on a smartphone solution. Meanwhile, 2017 will see a new website and potential improvements to the results system. A

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JWOC

David Brownbridge

Lanita Steer at JWOC

Simon Rouse

Max Dalheim leading Patrick Jaffe and Brodie Nankervis out of a control

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Toby and Patrick Cooper

Rebecca Jaffe & Rosie Dalheim

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Clare Brownbridge

yearbook Ted Van Geldermalsen

Photo Gallery 2016 P HOTOGRAPHS S US AN GUI NANE

Jensen Key

Kooyoora legend Warren key

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Neil Barr setting off on a Kooyoora course

Milla Key and Sophie Arthur on the Easter Podium

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Running with kangaroos MelBushO 2016 WO RDS & P HOTOGR APHS RUT H GODDARD CO ORDINATO R OF ME LBUS HO

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“MelBushO events are a perfect introduction for newcomers who would like to learn bush orienteering, in locations close to Melbourne. They are ideal for families looking for an outdoor activity they can do together, and for experienced navigators wanting to keep fit and hone their skills.” Debbie Dodd The ten events held near Melbourne between April and September in 2016 attracted an average attendance of 164.

Of those attending about half were newcomers – some coming for the first time and others who had been before but were not yet committed to a club. And the rest were regular and past orienteers. The sun shone shone at every event in 2016.

Debbie and Ian Dodd continue to support the organising club.

Debbie is co-cordinator of the series and is involved in preevent and post-event promotion. Ian is the technical person at most events, setting up the computer system and ironing out problems.

For Melbourne clubs the events are an opportunity for new coursesetters to learn about Condes, and levels of navigation while preparing two hard (if that is possible on the maps), one moderate and one easy navigation course. All entries are taken at the event on a tablet using OLynx software providing a printout of results and splits. One challenge is to get more regular orienteers to be involved in setting up and running the software.

At this stage there are some challenges to address: Challenge 1 To involve more regular orienteers in coursesetting in a park/ bush setting

Challenge 2 To keep the maps up to date Challenge 3 To increase the bush aspect keeping the venue within one hour of Melbourne. In 2017 there will be three events just outside metropolitan Melbourne to give newcomers a taste of bush orienteering in the country while maintaining the same structure of events.

Challenge 4 To find new areas near Melbourne which are bushy enough and accessible for new people with sufficient car parking space.

Challenge 5 To convince parents (and children) that their children can do a course alone.

Challenge 6 To get the participants ‘hooked’. There is some carryover to the competitive sprint events which follow this series.

Many of the parks are managed by Parks Victoria. For the 2017 season the permits have been organised many months ahead centrally by Laurie Niven as the Orienteering Victoria person liaising with a single Parks Victoria person. The process has thus been streamlined and the cost per event reduced. Entry fees can be retained at their current levels and event organizers have one less task.

Milla Key and Sophie Arthur in a sprint to the finish

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Melbourne Sprint Weekend 12 – 14 March 2016 A RT ICL E BY D EBBI E DODD, M ARGI FREEM ANTLE AND TED VAN GELDERMAL SEN, TA KEN F ROM A N ARTI CLE W RITTEN FOR T H E AUSTR ALIAN O RIE NTEER IN 2016

The Melbourne Sprint Weekend was inspired by Duncan and Ross Morrison’s Sprint the Bay event in New Zealand which a number of MSW organising team members attended in 2014.

Duncan said he was happy for us to copy their format (six sprint orienteering races in three days), “as long as you don’t call it Sprint the Bay”.

Western Australia’s Sprint the Southwest in October 2014 and the Hobart Shorts in early 2015 generated further enthusiasm to organise a sprint carnival.

the University of Melbourne to double as the Australian University Sprint Championships.

We developed a program comprising six sprints in three days over Victoria’s March long weekend at venues in Melbourne and Geelong. Venues were selected not only for their suitability for sprint orienteering, but for ease of access to the airport for interstaters. We had a lot of trouble deciding a name for the event that reflected the venues being in both Melbourne and Geelong, and, ironically, “Sprint the Bay” would have been a good option. A number of creative names were suggested but in the end, sadly for Geelong, it became simply the Melbourne Sprint weekend. The “best of five” format chosen for the overall scoring allowed course planners, event advisors and organisers to compete (in fact three of our course planners went on to win their classes).

Organising a Sprint carnival is just as complex as organising a Bush carnival. Yes, the races are short and the venues don’t require long hours of travel. However, venue owners/management often comprise several layers of officials to negotiate with carefully and patiently. Constraints include sensitivities around such things as risk management and safety, parking, toilet access, and garden beds (you have no idea how many rolls of out of bounds tape we used!) Venues are usually open to the public during competition and several venue managers were much more insistent on seeing our risk management plans and insurance certificates than is usual for bush events. Maps cannot be finalised until the last few days before the event and even this can be too soon. At RMIT, construction fences were changing almost daily – one fence, which had been in place for months and affected a route choice, was dismantled three days before the race, just after maps had been printed. Organisers had to tape off the whole area, to match the out of bounds area shown on the maps even though there was no longer anything in the area. Controls cannot be placed until on the day, and must be secured, which is time consuming.

In early 2015 we became aware that Orienteering Australia’s National Orienteering League (NOL) management was looking for a state association willing to host a NOL sprint round in February or March 2016. OA was keen for the program to include a World Ranking Event (WRE). OA advised that the WRE/NOL races would also serve as selection trials for WOC, JWOC, and the World University Championships. At the very last minute (a couple of weeks before the event) Australian University Sport also sanctioned the WRE race at

Add to that the detailed logistical planning required to ensure all the gear is set up, operating, then packed up and transported to the next venue, in a short window. These days, this includes a raft of electronics. Start intervals of 1 minute keep the start teams on their toes; and the constant stream of finishers gives no “downtime” in the finish tent to resolve problems. Thankfully, reliable internet access generally allows official results, splits, and progressive scores to be uploaded within 10 minutes or so of the last finisher crossing the

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Peter Bray

Bray was second, with Brodie Nankervis third. In W21E, Tash Key was another looking to stamp her authority early, winning from Rachel Effeney and Aislinn Prendergast.

Two more telling performances were seen in M/W20E, where Patrick Jaffe began his campaign with an emphatic win ahead of Will Kennedy and Ashley Nankervis. Lanita Steer had to work harder, claiming victory by only 1 second from Winnie Oakhill, with Tara Melhuish a mere 2 seconds further behind.

In other age classes, the closest result was W50, where Su Yan Tay and Wendy Read tied for first; Mason Arthur’s winning margin in Junior Boys was 4 seconds. At the other end of the scale, Milla Key was 10 minutes clear of her nearest rival in W10, and Ruth Goddard was fastest by 4 minutes in W70. However, overall results were based on finishing position rather than accumulated time, so everything was reset for Race 2.

Race 2 – The University of Melbourne, Parkville (NOL, WRE, Australian Uni Champs) Mapper and Course Planner Geoff Adams, Advisor Ted van Geldermalsen, Organiser Margi Freemantle and Tuckonie/Nillumbik Orienteers.

line, ready for TV screen display as competitors arrive at the next event.

We were delighted to host 300 competitors in total. There were over 100 senior and junior elites from all over Australia, plenty of locals, and a healthy number of interstaters who felt the Carnival was worth travelling to Melbourne for. All age groups from under 10 to over 70 were catered for. We worked hard to encourage juniors along, and were pleased to have over 30 young sprinters take part (besides the under-17s who ran in 20E classes). Many of these had participated in last year’s “Sprint into Spring” series. The often sparse M/W40 fields were well represented; M/W50 and M/W60 were very popular, and M70 was also well subscribed. As you would expect, fields were dominated by the big Victorian clubs – Bayside, Bendigo, Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne Forest Racers and Yarra Valley – but several interstate clubs had good contingents, particularly Garingal, Newcastle, Ugly Gully, Onkaparinga Hills and Parawanga.

Race 1 – RMIT Bundoora West (NOL) Mapper Geoff Adams, Course Planner Fredrik Johansson, Advisors Barry McCrae and Kathy Liley, Organiser Margi Freemantle and Yarra Valley Orienteers.

RMIT Bundoora West was first used for the 2015 Victorian Sprint Championship, so locals had a little familiarity with the map. In M21, Victorian coach-in-residence Ralph Street started off the way he meant to continue, with the first of his five wins. Compatriot Peter

We’ve known for years the potential of this map, but until recently it hasn’t been possible to obtain permission to stage an event, so previous versions were only used for occasional training events for a handful of orienteers. Final signoff wasn’t obtained until a couple of weeks beforehand, but the University was very supportive, and delighted to host the Australian University Sprint Championships.

The campus was overflowing with other users – there was even a wedding party in the cloisters of the Law building! The buildings were generally large and regular-shaped, so the main challenges were making the right route choices while keeping speed high on the long legs, and then adjusting quickly for the detailed garden area near the end.

Ralph Street once again took out M21, but this time Ian Lawford took second, securing his win in the Men’s University Champs. Peter Bray was third. Tash Key again won W21 from Rachel Effeney, but Michele Dawson took third, and the University Champs Women’s title. Matt Doyle won M20 from Patrick Jaffe and Aston Key – the latter two separated by only a second - while in W20, Tara Melhuish was only one second clear of Lanita Steer, and Winnie Oakhill was third. Close rivalries on the junior elite courses were already being established.

Repeat age class winners from the morning were Milla Key, Felix Corcoran, Zoe Melhuish, Carolyn Jackson, Tim Hatley, Chris Norwood, Ross Barr, and Ruth Goddard. Remarkably, Su Yan Tay and Wendy Read tied for the win AGAIN! There were some incredibly narrow margins, indicating final results were not going to be cut and dried.

Race 3 – Deakin University Waurn Ponds (NOL) Mapper Geoff Adams, Course Planner Chris Norwood, Advisor Warwick Williams, Organiser Anne Robinson and Eureka Orienteers.

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Day 2 was based in the Geelong area, an easy drive from the Melbourne CBD. The Waurn Ponds map was first used for the Victorian Sprint Championships in 2014. Courses were generally focused on the more complex residential area, rather than the campus proper. The terrain was more open and a little hillier, so at the halfway point, physical fitness would be a contributing factor, as well as the inevitable mental fatigue brought about by a series of intense and absorbing races. While it was no surprise to see Ralph once again top the M21 leaderboard, this time the placings went to Leon Keely and Henry McNulty. Rachel Effeney scored victory in W21, with Liis Johanson second and Bridget Anderson third. In M20, Patrick Jaffe and Matt Doyle reversed the race 2 result; Simeon Burrill moved up to third. Once again Lanita Steer and Tara Melhuish were neck and neck, with Lanita the winner by 8 seconds; Asha Steer was third this time after threatening for a place in the first two races.

Interestingly, the age class winners were almost universally different to those from day 1, with only Zoe Melhuish and Ross Barr able to maintain their streaks. Sophie Arthur won W10, and Olivia Moon had a convincing win on W12. The Junior Boys was incredibly close, with only 1 min 22 seconds separating first from seventh! Kayleen Morrison won W40, while Martin Steer’s 3 second win over Tim Hatley was notable on M50. Su Yan Tay finally broke clear of Wendy Read on W50, winning by 12 seconds. Adrian Uphill and Denise Pike were first time winners on M60 and W60 respectively, and Rosie Salvaris won W70.

Race 4 – Kardinia International College (NOL) Mapper Geoff Adams, Course Planners Philippa Lohmeyer-Collins and Stephen Collins, Advisor Jim Russell, Organiser Anne Robinson and Bayside Kangaroos.

Kardina was the surprise package of the weekend. It was the only completely new map, and it offered many quirky features, as well as myriad narrow paths and corridors, multiple levels, fences, walls and courtyard gardens, all in minute detail. Courses 1-3 had a midcourse map changeover. The arena was a steep amphitheatre which offered fabulous views of Corio Bay. Elites started at 30 second intervals from the stage, which elicited plenty of friendly sledging.

The Finish was also adjacent to the stage, which was exciting for competitors and spectators alike. Racers had to switch modes from the morning’s open, fast running, to the intricacies of this terrain.

Small navigational errors soon compounded. For those heading home after today, it was a wonderful finale to the NOL round.

Once again Ralph Street proved unbeatable, and this time Henry McNulty and Simon Uppill were the placegetters. Rachel Effeney, followed by Tash Key and Michele Dawson were the W21 placegetters. M20 saw familiar names at the top of the list, with Patrick Jaffe earning his third win, Matt Doyle second, and Simeon Burrill third. W20 saw another win to Tara Melhuish, with Winnie Oakhill second and Anna Dowling third.

Hannah Adams had a narrow win on W10. Callum White won M12 from Felix Corcoran, making it two wins each. Mason Arthur and Glenn James tied on Junior Boys, while Zoe Melhuish made it four in a row on Junior Girls. Ed Steenbergen took his second victory on

Patrick Jaffe

M40, while Carolyn Jackson returned to the top of W40. Tim Hatley was another repeat winner on M50, and Su Yan Tay cemented her position on top of W50. M60 went to Chris Norwood, while Julia Prudhoe won W60. Ross Barr and Rosie Salvaris repeated their wins in M/W70.

Race 5 – Victoria University St Albans Mapper Geoff Adams, Course Planner Tim Hatley, Advisor Bruce Arthur, Organiser Clare Brownridge and Melbourne Forest Racers.

Numbers were still strong although some interstaters and locals had other commitments; the quality of Day 3’s maps, courses, and organisation was undiminished, and the racing remained intense as overall honours were on the line! VUSA is the most familiar map to locals, having been used twice during our regular “Sprint into Spring” series. However our course planner was able to put a new slant on it. The first leg was a standout, luring a number of people into a parallel error as brains were growing as tired as legs.

Peter Bray returned to the podium, in second behind Ralph and ahead of Leon Keely on M21. Tash Key returned to the top of W21 ahead of Bridget Anderson and Belinda Lawford. There was no stopping Patrick Jaffe on M20 as he moved closer to a perfect overall score; Jarrah Day and Angus Haines took the places. Tara Melhuish won W20 from Lanita Steer and Zoe Dowling, making the overall results very close indeed.

Other age classes saw some first time winners – Luca Bogdanovits in W12, Torren Arthur in Junior Boys, Paul Benson in M40, Ian Davies in M50, and Helen Alexander in W70. Meanwhile Zoe Melhuish and Ross Barr won their fifth consecutive races to take unassailable overall leads.

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Race 6 – Parade College Mapper Fredrik Johansson, Course Planner Ralph Street, Advisor Blair Trewin, Organiser Clare Brownridge and Dandenong Ranges Orienteers.

The race of truth! Courses were concentrated entirely in the building complex making for an intense map-reading and decision-making challenge the whole way. Most courses had a map flip half way through which kept them legible despite many loops and crossovers. The pressure was on first to get the courses ready in time for the first start time at 3pm, then to wrap up with presentations as quickly as possible after the last finisher. Today’s technology allowed us to announce overall winners within about 10 minutes of race completion, which those catching flights certainly appreciated.

Ralph’s course planning duties opened the door on M21, and Leon Keely emerged the winner, from Peter Bray and Simon Uppill. Liis Johanson also scored her first win on W21, from Tash Key and Aislinn Prendergast. M20 went to Patrick Jaffe, Jarrah Day, and Sebastian O’Halloran, while Lanita Steer capped off a great weekend with a win over Asha Steer and Zoe Dowling.

There weren’t too many surprises in other classes, but there were a couple of new names at the top. Jensen Key won Junior Boys, and Sarah Davies broke through on Junior Girls, while Tony Simpkins finally ended Ross Barr’s dominance of M70.

Overall, some classes were won with perfect scores of 500 – Ralph Street, Patrick Jaffe, Ashley White, Zoe Melhuish, Ryan Davies, Carolyn Jackson, Su Yan Tay, Chris Norwood and Ross Barr. Others went down to the wire with wins by only one or two point margins – Lanita Steer, Sophie Arthur, Callum White, Claire Adams, Mason Arthur and Mariann Fossum. Remaining winners were Natasha Key, Andras Bogdanovits, Tim Hatley, Julia Prudhoe, Ruth Goddard and Daniel del Dot. The Victorian Nuggets dominated in all four classes to convincingly win the NOL round.

Full results, splits, overall standings, competition maps, and hundreds of photos can be viewed via www.parkstreeto.com.au/ msw2016/ Video footage thanks to Living It Live: https://youtu.be/NAITi1NTqLc Melbourne Sprint Weekend will back on 10 – 12 March 2018. Don’t miss it.

Article by Debbie Dodd, Margi Freemantle and Ted van Geldermalsen, taken from an article written for The Australian Orienteer in 2016.

Bruce Arthur

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The Flying Finns Lotta Kirvesmies and Noora Koskinen WO RDS CARL DA LH EIM

In October 2016 Orienteering Victoria hosted two young Finnish Orienteers - Lotta Kirvesmies and Noora Koskinen - as coaches for the Spring Season of Orienteering. Lotta and Noora have both represented Finland at JWOC; and both with great results in the Sprint discipline. Noora having achieved 8th place in 2015 in Norway, and Lotta 6th place in 2016 in Switzerland.

The duration of the stay for the girls was only 2 months but very well timed with respect to the Sprint in to Spring Series and the Summer Park and Street series; so this was the focus of the efforts and the training activity that the girls provided with a few bush training sessions added to the programme. The sessions were open to all comers, and well attended with between 20 and 30 people attending the Sprint sessions across all ages.

As in previous years with the Danes, and Ralph and Peter, it was exciting to see the fitness, strength and abilities on display not only in the training activity but also in the Sprint in to Spring events where Lotta and Noora were consistently pushing our top men and women in the entire series.

As in previous years we owe a great deal to our host families.

The visit was only brief but the Key family again stepped up and hosted Lotta - and not only cared for Lotta but took both Lotta and Noora to many places and events including some races in the Victorian High Country. Fergus Fitzwater and Mari Vahanissi hosted Noora, with the added bonus of Mari's Finnish background. Ferg and Mari have a beautiful holiday house in the Otway Ranges where Lotta and Noora enjoyed a fun long weekend in December. Our hosts are essential to the coaching programme. The Key Family, Fergus and Mari did a wonderful job, and Orienteering Victoria is very grateful.

Orienteering Victoria wishes both Lotta and Noora the best of success in their future Orienteering competitions and hope to see them representing Finland in the future.

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Victorian MTBO Rolling on through 2016 WO RDS & P HOTOGRAPHS P ETER CUSWORTH

13 club MTBO events, plus the Schools Champs, were held in Victoria during 2016 showcasing solid attendances throughout the year.

The year kicked off as usual with four Summer 75 events featuring the popular maps at Lysterfield (BK) 84 entries, the You Yangs (BK) 65 entries and Westerfolds (YV) 75 entries. We couldn't find a club to run the final event, so with the help of some volunteers we ran an event at Silvan for the first time in quite a few years and just 39 riders turned up to tackle the Dandy Ranges map. We used Geoff Hudson's electronic timing system for three of the events and for Westerfolds we went retro using control cards and punches.

The Victorian MTBO Championships were held early in the year again so as to provide a quality event to act as selection trials for the Australian MTBO team. It was also the first round of the National MTBO Series. The Albury/Wodonga club offered to host the Championships in April at Beechworth/Stanley organising the Middle and Long races with Bayside Kangaroos running the Sprint event.

Warm, sunny and dry conditions greeted over 90 riders who lined up for the Middle race at Indigo Winery. A good number of competitors were there from all states and NZ to enjoy the events. The Middle was a very different event containing two maps; the first map area featured the single tracks and a rail trail out the back of the property, the second showed the open land and tracks through the vineyard. The sprint was a fast and furious course through the Mayday Hills precinct in Beechworth and was great fun for all. The Long wound up the weekend with a substantially new Stanley map including large sections of single tracks.

Many thanks to the Albury Wodonga and Bayside Kangaroos clubs and particularly organiser/setters: Leigh Privett, Rick

Carolyn Jackson

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Armstrong, Jon Sutcliffe and Thor Egerton; Middle and Long controller, Keith Wade; and SportIdent, Greg Tamblyn.

The Australian team was announced after the weekend and for the first time no Victorians featured in the team.

Congratulations to one Victorian though – Carolyn Jackson who was appointed Australian coach.

There were 6 rounds in the 2016 Vic MTBO Series with the first round held at Kurth Kiln (BK) the week before the Vic Champs.

Again it was the first time we'd been back at Kurth Kiln for quite a few years and we had chosen a good date as it was sunny and warm and the tracks were dry – this is not a good map on a muddy day!

The second round was held in early May at St Georges Lake, Creswick (NE). It was quite a cold day evidenced by a number of riders listed as DNS in the results, but for those that rode, it was a great event with some good challenges.

Eureka organised the 3rd round at Canadian Forest utilising much of the southern part of the forest that included many new sections of single track. Again another top event, and from memory, quite a cold day again.

The first weekend in July saw a very popular double header at Castlemaine. Yarra Valley ran the Saturday event on the Old Quartz Hill map, first used for the World MTBO Champs in

2004, and in another first, the event used the new “Mass Start” format for the first time. The Sunday event saw the Bendigo club running an MTBO event for the first time in many years – a great thing and another top event using the Hills Ups & Downs map.

The final round of the series was held in September at Daylesford using another map that hadn't been used for quite a while, Rodoni – 16 years in this case. The last use was for the 2004 Victorian Champs, which was the warm-up event for the World MTBO Champs.

The event was a great finish to the series. We had had a lot of rain in the week leading up to the event, but we were lucky to have no rain and quite a bit of sunshine on the day. However,it was still very wet on the ground with a number of tracks on the map that were like creeks! Organisers Heather Leslie and John Gavens not only organised the MTBO event, but also the Rogaine held in Daylesford the day before!! Thanks to the cross promotion, we had a number of people doing both events, and despite the weather, was the best entries for the series.

A number of Victorians headed interstate for the National Series events, the Australian Champs in WA and the Queensland Champs on the Sunshine Coast to score points for Victoria in the series.

Tim Jackson & Graham Wallis on a steep incline out of a control

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Carolyn Cusworth

Peter Cusworth

No Victorians attended the 2016 World Masters Championships held in Lithuania, but a number featured in the final scoring for the 2016 World Masters Series, as the first round of the series was the Australian Championships held in November 2015 at Anglesea with three of them winning their class in the World Series: Jenny Sheahan 1st in W75; Joyce Rowlands 1st in W80 and Graeme Cadman 1st M80. Other good Vic results were: Dale Ann Gordon 3rd in W70; Helen Edmonds 4th W60; Keith Wade 6th in M75 and Peta Whitford 6th W65.

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Milla Key

Hello Spring WORD S M ARGI F REEM A N T L E

The later part of October has come to mean early Saturday mornings for the Sprint into Spring organising team, however an increasing competitor attendance every year provides plenty of encouragement and motivation.

Planning for 2016 started early with the selection of maps enabling time to prepare new maps and update existing ones.

Next, potential course setters were approached and appointed. DirtyD continued as our Jersey sponsor – producing the orienteering tops for our series winners.

For the second time, the series culminated with a sprint weekend in a regional centre. This year Bendigo was approached to run a ‘Sprint Triple Header’ to conclude the series, including the final two Sprint into Spring events plus

the Victorian Sprint Championships. On gaining Bendigo’s approval, it was all go and the advertising commenced.

Eltham College The series kicked off at Eltham College with a record attendance, including a lot of new people. Course planner Mike Hubbert chose to keep all the controls within the main campus area which created tight complex courses that required very detailed map reading and a map flip. A spectator control and route choices through the arena added to the interest. A great start to the series.

Keilor Downs Schools For week two the series headed west to Keilor Downs Schools, a new map. Spring weather is always unpredictable and this was the wettest, windiest and wildest Sprint Into Spring ever.

Cold squally showers and hail punctuated by all too brief bursts of sunshine made conditions physically testing.

Amazingly we still saw over 100 brave souls turn out for the event. At first glance the area looked easy to navigate but with a myriad of fences and gates throughout the campuses, plus Dion Keech’s canny course setting, it proved to be anything but

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easy. There were a few very experienced orienteers seen backtracking out of dead ends at times. The event also saw what must be the series smallest hill climb on record. We will be back to this area!

Ruffey Lake Park Next up was Ruffey Lake which presented an all-round challenge, with the park land being a total contrast to previous weeks. The Jersey competition was now starting to take shape with high attendance from competitors keen to gain a jersey.

Steven O’Connell used the area well in his course setting, where the wide open spaces meant you needed to stay accurate; the big hills meant you needed to be fit, and the small but very complex playground, and the cluster of controls near the finish, meant you had to keep your wits about you.

Deakin Uni Burwood With the series now in full swing and competitors tuned into Sprint orienteering, it was now time to test their navigation on the complex Deakin University Burwood campus. In the lead up to the event this campus proved to be very challenging for the organisers, especially Ted who, with new construction appearing daily and fences springing up seemingly on an hourly basis, ended up visiting the venue almost daily to update the map. After some negotiation with the work crews we crossed our fingers nothing else would change, but packed the purple pens just in case last minute changes were required. Much to the relief of Ted all was well on the day.

Simon Rouse’s courses were a really good test of technical sprint orienteering in a very complex area, exploiting the multiple levels, and nooks and crannies of the campus. The courses also had a twist in the tail, where after a dizzying tour of a lot of short legs with many changes of direction and level, people let their guard down for the final dash through the car park and into the finish. Quite a lot of people missed seeing the narrow path into the carpark, and wasted time running round either end – brains fading after so much concentration.

Newport Lakes Next up it was back to the west to Newport Lakes Park.

Listening to the discussion prior to the event the general view was that this area was straightforward. However this didn’t factor in Toby Cooper’s course setting which caught out people who weren’t navigating carefully enough, often in full view of the finish. The jersey competition was now really hotting up with some very close competition for a lot of the jerseys. Much strategy discussion could now be heard around the results display.

Bendigo Triple Header The finale of the series was now upon us with the triple header at Bendigo. The Sprint Bendigo weekend was highly anticipated for many reasons – it was the Grand Finale of Sprint into Spring, as well as including the Victorian Sprint Champs

Dion Keech & David Jaffe on the Sunday. Three new maps, three different terrains and course setting styles, and the chance to use the contactless SI air punching system, all attracted big numbers to Bendigo.

Even the weather was perfect Bendigo South East College Saturday morning’s event was at Bendigo South East College, a small but complicated campus with its fair share of irregular buildings, stairs and ramps, fences, landscaping, and even a small lake and tiny patch of bush. Course setter Richard Goonan used a map flip to good effect. Lots of short legs with constant direction changes kept us on our toes, and competitors quickly adjusted to the swipe technique of SI Air. South Star The afternoon event then required a quick shift across to South Star in Eaglehawk. This was unlike anything we’ve used before at Sprint Into Spring, and David Brownridge’s courses were a great test of competitors’ versatility. The terrain here was heavily eroded gold mining with not a building in sight. It abounded in small intricate gullies and mounds, intersected by narrow and sometimes indistinct tracks. Patches of thicker vegetation influenced route choice, and pure speed was less of a factor. The jersey competition had been tight going into the final weekend, especially in the men’s races. Competitors finishing keenly looked on at the results with a lot of crossed fingers – had their strategy paid off and did they win the jersey while others started planning their strategy for the next series.

Victorian Sprint Championships, Camp Hill Concluding the weekend of sprints, the champs were held right in the heart of Bendigo, on Camp Hill and Rosalind Park.

Christopher Naunton’s courses took in the various sights of this unique area, including a Chinese temple and garden, a former prison and a fern maze. Thanks to Bendigo Orienteers for organising a very successful Victorian Champs and to the

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Nicola Dalheim

Roll of Honour Course Planners Eltham College

Michael Hubbert

Keilor Downs Schools

Dion Keech

Ruffey Lake Park

Steven O’Connell

Deakin Uni Burwood

Simon Rouse

Newport Lakes

Toby Cooper

Bendigo South East College South Star

Richard Goonan David Brownridge

Victorian Sprint Champs Christopher Naunton

DirtyD Orienteering Jersey Winners Sprint Into Spring Overall Winners – Yellow Jersey

various landowners for allowing us to run on this fantastic area. The results of the champs can be found elsewhere in this yearbook.

Mo Farah - Men

Brodie Nankervis

Mo Farah – Women

Natasha Key

Sally Pearson - Men

Jensen Key

Sally Pearson - Women

Jenny Bourne

Usain Bolt - Men

Ashley White

Usain Bolt Women

Pat Mews

Hill Climb leg Winners – Polka Dot Jersey Mo Farah - Men

Shane Mallia

Mo Farah – Women

Clare Brownridge

Sally Pearson - Men

Will Davey

Sally Pearson - Women

Julie Francis

Usain Bolt - Men

Peter Beggs

Usain Bolt Women

Paula Davey

Sprint Leg Winners – Green Jersey Mo Farah - Men

James Robertson

Mo Farah – Women

Liis Johansson

Sally Pearson - Men

Brody McCarthy

Sally Pearson - Women

Heather O’Donnell

Usain Bolt - Men

Daniel Kaman

Usain Bolt Women

Claire Adams

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Ian Johnson 88 and still navigating his way around the Bendigo bush!

W ORDS BY P E TE R C RE E LY

Ian Johnson is the oldest member of the Bendigo Orienteering Club. His 88th birthday comes up in August 2016 and the club will celebrate the occasion at his micro-sprint event at Black Jack Gully near Castlemaine on August 13th. Ian still competes in events although he is now slowing down a bit, but he still enjoys the bush and finding hidden controls. I wonder how many people reading this will still be able to navigate their way around the Bendigo bush when they are 88 years old.

Ian retired from primary teaching in 1986, and came to live near Castlemaine, so it could be said that in 1986 the Ballarat orienteering world lost an asset and Bendigo gained one. At 88 he is still heavily involved in the sport; orienteering is a sport for all ages but the balance is still very much weighted in favour of the younger and fitter, and to see an 88 year old navigating his way around the rough forest areas week after week is still a bit off putting for many people. He has competed in almost every event organised by the Bendigo club since his arrival here but now, though still active competitively he is easing out of the organisational activities.

Ian first ventured into orienteering on a novice course at an event in 1971 at St George’s Lake in the Creswick Forest. Ian said he walked or scrambled it, as he went across country where he could, but did not use a compass. He can remember that the controls were buckets hanging by a rope with pens of different colours to mark the spaces on the map. He mapped the forest behind his newly built home in Ballarat and when

some local runners were thinking about starting an orienteering club, he became an original member, taking on the position of Treasurer with a strict spending oversight. Tom Norwood and Ian both agreed low spending was essential to start with, and they gathered the profits carefully. The first event Ian organised was on June 1st 1975 on a map he helped to field work and draw. The longest course was 3.75 km with 13 controls. The cost of entry was only 20 cents, and compass hire the same.

With the experience of these initial ventures into orienteering behind him, Ian decided to make a better coloured map with more accurate fieldwork, using his usual three point triangulation, which is labour intensive but very accurate.

Another map of Canadian Forest followed, it was bigger and more complicated, but still accurate. His map making procedure is, even now, still firmly rooted in basic, original methods with little time for new technology. Ian managed to make some more maps from some free photogrammetry he got from an International Three Day event. Today he still makes his own maps using free hand, pacing and drawings – then passes them on to others to digitally prepare the final map.

During his time at Bendigo he has never missed course setting at least one -- until recently two events every year and still continues to compete every week.

He is an avid environmentalist and his knowledge of indigenous plants is second to none; he has written numerous volumes on his observations of micro climate and vegetation changes and is also the author of many, many articles on navigational techniques as used in orienteering; his property at Harcourt is not connected to electricity and he lives a Spartan and totally carbon neutral lifestyle.

Ian Johnson is an amazing person, he is iconic to our sport-- a "living legend" of the Bendigo Orienteering Club and an individual the like of whom we will probably never see again.

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An orienteering map in every Bendigo household!

W ORD S & PHOTOS JULIE FLYNN

It was the good fortune of Bendigo Orienteers that Craig Feuerhardt and Andrew Cameron had a crack at applying for a VicHealth “ Physical Activity Innovation Challenge” grant a couple of years ago. Andrew and Craig produced a simple video (using a mobile phone) to make their initial pitch.

The vision was to get more Bendigo residents outdoors and actively participating in orienteering based activities using technology to assist the process. We received $40,000 to develop and trial our ideas over 18 months.

This project was originally called Go Explore It but we changed it to Park and Street Challenge after being made an unrefusable offer to sell the registered name.

A small working group led by Craig continued to work on a range of activities: • Development of maps of various areas around Heathcote and Bendigo that were used in the initial trial in Heathcote and the final Park and Street Challenge in Bendigo • School based orienteering activities during the first year, and development of web-based classroom activities (by teachers who orienteer) that teachers could use to supplement the orienteering activities provided within some schools.

• Development of a website for registration for the community navigation challenges, first trialled in the small township of Heathcote in 2015, and then rolled out in Bendigo the following year.

• The Bendigo Park and Street Challenge which involved printing 32,000 maps of Bendigo and surrounding bushlands (with control locations marked). These were distributed to households in the local free community newspapers, with an invitation to participate by registering on line and using the map to explore the local town and bush environments. This ran for 6 weeks prior to Christmas 2016. Just over 100 participants registered their visits to up to 60 sites identified on the maps during this period; 1,792 locations were logged by users. There were 392 Facebook likes registered.

Andrew Cameron (red T-shirt) with Craig Feuerhardt in the background

• Development of Park and Street orienteering, a series of free community based events late on Sunday afternoons, targeted to young families over 6-8 weeks prior to and

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following the bush season of orienteering in Bendigo. This time made good use of daylight savings and on Sunday afternoons there are few organised sporting activities to distract families.

• Use of Facebook to increase our reach into the Bendigo community and promote the Park and Street events. The Park and Street family events were promoted to ParkRun participants, members of local athletics clubs and a number of school groups.

• Now in its second year, Park and Street has been using the MapRun application (developed by Queensland orienteer Peter Effeney) with smart phones, to make the task of organising the Park and Street Challenge events simpler.

People run with a paper copy of the map, and their phone provides positive feedback when they reach the virtual control sites, which are marked on the map but have no physical placement of controls. We have a small number of cheap smart phones which people can borrow if they have don’t have their own smart phone. People love using this, and the organisers appreciate not having to spend so much time putting out controls and then collecting them after the event.

walk around the parks of Bendigo, and a small number of families with young children have started attending bush orienteering. We will continue to promote Park and Street during daylight savings periods on Sunday afternoons……

Craig and Andrew have helped changed the way we recruit new people into the sport. We are convinced that enticing families to get involved in orienteering is more sustainable for the future of orienteering than focussing on schools for recruitment. Andrew and Craig have introduced new ideas and worked very hard to implement them. Craig especially has put in many hours of work to develop the website and pioneer the intelligent use of Facebook by the club.

The grant has enabled us to experiment with and adapt several technologies in our quest to get more people trying orienteering activities. The project has taught us a lot about engaging our community. Some activities worked. The less successful initiatives were the start of new ideas.

The project has run its course, the acquittal and outcomes have been reported to VicHealth. Park and Street orienteering remains one of Bendigo Orienteers’ recruitment and development activities. Over 100 people have enjoyed a run or

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A funny thing happened on the way to the O-shop the story of Kevin Maloney W O RDS DAVI D G O DDA RD

John’s Roman Catholic Church in East Melbourne, although the ceremony was held in the sacristy because his mother was not

1Catholic. Vin worked as a toolmaker/engineer during the Second World War but, after the war, he and Vera became small business owners – essentially in groceries.

The experiences of Kevin’s childhood coloured much of his life. During his school years, the family moved among several areas on the outer fringes of Melbourne where he had the freedom to explore forests and to ride bikes fast on gravel roads. Most of Kevin’s schooling was in Catholic schools where he gained the discipline and adherence to his faith that continues to this day. He loves the universality of the Roman church – the familiarity of proceedings whether one is in Melbourne, Rome or Castlemaine – and the beauty of some ceremonies, e.g. the Easter vigil.

...... well, it would have done if I’d stopped to talk with Kevin.

He loves engaging people and has that happy humility and apt repartee that generates laughter from ordinary occurrences. The joy is fleeting, but its memory makes one glad to have been in the moment with him. And his understated manner and honesty generates respect, so we are simply glad to see him at events.

Kevin’s background Kevin Maloney was born in Mont Albert in July 1942. He was the second of five children – three boys, then two girls. Peter, his brother who also orienteers, is eight years younger. His mother, Vera, and father, Vin, were married in 1937 at St

Before starting with groceries, Kevin’s mother, Vera, was a typist with a printing company. Then, despite becoming busy with her grocery businesses, she cared for her children, was brilliant at sewing and had a very ‘young’ voice. She died suddenly in 1984 from a rapid-onset cardiac condition while motoring on holiday in South Australia. Kevin’s father, Vin, died ten years later but not before entering the M80 event at the World Masters’ Games at St Helen’s, Tasmania, in 1992.

The year before that, at the Victorian Championships, Vin Maloney was named orienteer of the year.

Kevin is a bachelor. In his words, “I’ve never had girlfriends or boyfriends.” He lives alone in his old family home in Mt Waverley. He is a member of the Mt Waverley history group.

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From school to grocery Kevin’s parents’ first business was a general store and post office at Morwell Bridge, where the original alignment of the Princes Highway crossed the Morwell River, 5km north-west of Morwell. Nowadays, the site of Morwell Bridge like neighbouring Yallourn has been swallowed by the brown coal open cut. Kevin remembers the big rubber stamp that put the postmark on the letters and the day that gypsies paused at the store – one read his parents’ palms while another bled the till.

Kevin was glad that none of his toys went missing.

The next move was to a farm with ducks and chooks and a single Jersey cow at Kinglake West. Vin, his father, drove a bulldozer and carted firewood. Kevin loved being in the forest with Vin although one morning, Vin came out to find his loaded truck down to its axles due to the subterranean energies of land crabs. Kevin started at the local two-roomed primary school. To get there required a small bicycle – a handme-down from elder brother Michael. Whilst introducing himself to the bike, Kevin started on a downhill road before finding out about his foot-brake. His trajectory was arrested as he ran off the road at a sharp bend and into a single loose strand of barbed wire at chest height. He quickly discovered a less painful way to stop.

After a year, the family moved to Ferntree Gully where Vin bought a grocery opposite the station. Kevin and Michael sat among the furniture on the back of the truck as they descended the narrow road from Mt Slide junction to Yarra Glen. It had many sharp bends so Vin used the horn – only it stuck on, adding continuous sound to the fresh-air ride, doubtless mimicked by lyrebirds in the fern gullies for days to come.

In the grocery, Vin collected orders from customers then made deliveries in his truck later in the week – the horn had been fixed by then. They sold bulk kerosene and chook food in hundredweight sacks (51 kg) – no manual handling regulations then! Kevin liked to observe the weighing out of groceries on the scales and how merchandise like salt had to be belted and bashed to make it flow. Kevin attended the local Catholic school. He said he was never really good at school but Sister Michael in Grade 3 had one activity that he recalled.

Members of her class would find a place around the walls of the classroom and she would go round the children one at a time and ask them to spell a word. If they got it wrong, she’d ask them to sit down.

The winner was the last one standing. Kevin doesn’t remember many successful completions but he enjoyed the activity.

Younger brother Peter was born during those years at William Angliss – the hospital (in Ferntree Gully) not the food school, Kevin hastened to add.

Then, as Kevin started Grade 6, the family moved to Mt Waverley while his parents organised for their Foodland

grocery store to be built at Kilsyth. But, in school at St Anthony’s in Oakleigh (now Chadstone) Kevin felt outclassed.

Once the Kilsyth store was constructed, the family moved there and Kevin attended St Edmonds in Croydon, reaching Form 2 (Year 8), then the highest level at the school. He transferred then to St Joseph’s Catholic Technical School at Abbotsford which necessitated a train journey from Croydon to Flinders Street and a second train from Princes Bridge to Collingwood.

He started there in 1955, just before the big year for Melbourne in 1956 with the Olympic Games (although he never attended), the start of television and ready availability of the Salk injectable vaccine for poliomyelitis. At school there was woodwork, metal work and other trade and standard subjects. Kevin showed me his school report. It had comments like, “Capable of a higher standard if more energetic”, “Kevin’s work has been marked by interest and sincerity”, “Excellent student of excellent moral character and well-mannered”.

Discipline was firm. Kevin had thick curly hair and one day was chastised by his teacher for having it cut too short. And the school had no heating so, on cold days, the children were warmed up by a brisk run around the quadrangle. The school had no playing fields so, for football and other games, children crossed the Yarra to playing fields at Yarra Bend. Kevin said he was no athlete, and was always one of the last to be picked for team games.

Kevin left school after three years, about the time that his parents sold their Foodland store in Kilsyth. They had built another Foodland store in Mt Waverley, almost opposite the home where he still lives. Kevin’s mother was keen for Kevin to get qualifications and further skills, and, just then, Woolworths were about to open a variety store and supermarket at Mt Waverley. Kevin sat a written test and was employed there. The store manager required his staff to stand in ‘their’ aisles; they got into trouble if they took a lost customer to another aisle. At age 15, he was appointed assistant storeroom manager which, among other jobs involved sweeping. He found that the fans on the coolroom fridges would blow the dust back to where he had just swept. One day he turned off the fridges while he swept but forgot to turn them back on again. He wasn’t fired but the clean-up proved smellier than sweeping.

Next door to Woolworths was a Malvern Star bike shop. He bought one – his first new bike, not a hand-me-down from Michael. He felt like king of the road (and of the log that, in those days, served as a bridge over Scotchman’s Creek near his home).

He stayed at Woolworths for eleven months on a weekly wage of £5/2/6. But his father had fitted out another store in the ‘Four Square’ grocery chain at nearby Jordanville, so Kevin joined him there. After four years, a Mr P C Thomas who owned three Supa Valu supermarkets, offered Kevin a job at his store in Maling Road, Canterbury. Kevin remained there for 35 years until his retirement. He recalls that customers, one time in their teens, became grandparents over that span of time.

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Kevin and cars

Orienteering

While working with his father at Jordanville, Kevin bought his first car – a Fiat Multipla 600 – and joined the Fiat car club where, through more than ten years, he joined others in sprints, hill climbs (near Warrandyte) and other hoon activities (as he described it). In the club, he learnt advanced driving – recovering from skids, that sort of thing. The Fiat was a small beetle-like vehicle with a rear engine and doors that opened so that one stepped out in front of them. One day, as his car traversed a shallow cutting at low speed, a cow jumped on top of it, breaking the windscreen. Kevin was hardly over the moon.

Early in the 1970s, Kevin saw a centre page spread in the Sun News Pictorial (predecessor of the Herald Sun) where Warren and Sue Key were shown orienteering at Yarra Bend park. This appealed so he started attending events at Gembrook, Strath Creek, Mt Egerton and other places. He joined St Leo’s orienteering club which later amalgamated with Melbourne University Mountaineering Club, then Ex-Melbourne University (EMUs). A further amalgamation, led to Nillumbik Emus.

His next car was a Volkswagen beetle until it crashed head-on on a flooded road. In those years before seatbelts, a doctor had to remove many fragments of windscreen from his face and scalp. He still bears scars. Another VW crashed four days after purchase when he misjudged a bend in the road at a level crossing and scraped along some concrete pipes. Indeed, one way to learn about the innards of cars is to have crashes, and Kevin did – several more of them. Kevin wondered whether the dark red colour of one vehicle was a factor. After the crash, the repairer bolted a new white-coloured cabin on to the existing chassis and Kevin persuaded him to paint the whole vehicle white. Ultimately, Kevin and his car insurer parted company.

In 1966, Kevin and brother Peter gained third place in the Castrol Safety Drive car rally in Victoria – the certificate saying that Kevin showed satisfactory driving ability, road courtesy and consideration for other road users and the public. They travelled to Sydney to compete in the Castrol national rally. He went by air – his first time in an aeroplane. He was sickened by the enclosed space full of cigarette smoke and spent much of the journey vomiting in the toilet from where the cabin crew had to drag him as the plane was about to land. The national rally organisers actually supplied cars to the competitors, and Kevin and Peter were travelling well until they lost many points for speeding across a one-lane bridge. Like much else in our lives, it’s not what you do that counts but what you get caught doing.

The car club assisted Kevin’s driving including some attendance at the police driving school in Brunswick. Each year at Christmas, Kevin entered the courtesy rally run by the Victorian Police Motor Sport Club. In 1974, he won this with his younger sister Joan as navigator.

Kevin regarded Peugeots as the ultimate in car design and, in 1970, he bought a new Peugeot 404. By then, his desires to hoon were waning. Later, he bought a second Peugeot – a 504 T1 – a great cruising car and very comfortable to sleep in (but not behind the wheel).

He started with D course and, as a regular winner, thought he was ‘a bit good’ until someone prompted him to move to C course. What he loved most about orienteering was, and still is, being out in the fresh air in the bush, nowadays enhanced by good courses on world-class maps. He regards the late Eric Andrews’ map of The Cascades (in Queensland’s southern granite country) as the most beautiful item of mapping art work ever made in Australia.

In 1978, he took long service leave from his job and joined a ‘Peo Bengtsson’ group tour of Europe led by Tom Andrews. Its prime purpose was to attend O-ringen in Axvall, Sweden – a military town. They also visited Switzerland and Yugoslavia (including one overnight at the ‘Compass Hotel’). The group travelled by bus playing Abba music and staying at youth hostels. At the end of the actual tour, Kevin continued on in Europe with a 21-day Eurail pass travelling on a series of crisscrossing journeys through Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, France (because of his love of Peugeots), Switzerland and Italy. He couldn’t speak any European language but got by. On one journey, he intended to go to Nice and boarded a long train on a carriage that said “Nice” on the window. There were no seats in that carriage so he walked through the train till he found one. However, while he was sleeping, the train divided and his section of the train terminated far from Nice – not nice. Still, he loved his destinations in Italy – participating in mass in the church below the station in Rome, and seeing Lake Como and Venice. Observing different makes of stylish, sporty cars added to his pleasure.

An item that survived all this travel was a memento given to all those who entered O-ringen that year. He showed it to me. At a casual glance it looked like a fully-formed mushroom with its cap shrouding others nearly ready to sprout. In fact, it was a model of part of an ancient cemetery – the graves of the ancestors.

Kevin went again on a tour that included O-ringen in Anderstorp, Sweden in 1983. He recalled that at O-ringen the Australians wore T-shirts to advertise Australia as a venue for the World Orienteering Championships in 1985 and the local government even stopped trains on the railway that ran through the forest for the safety of runners. He was impressed by the smooth organisation of bus transport to the forests at O-

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ringen. The weather was very hot and their touring vehicle – a Toyota Hi-Ace – had no air-conditioning. They sweltered through Denmark, southern Germany, Lichtenstein, Czechoslovakia (as it was) and Yugoslavia (as it was).

saying that if we were very quiet and very lucky, we might see a bearded dragon. Kevin leaned over the bridge saying “Yo ho ho. Are there any dragons down there?” Needless to say, we didn't see any.

Back in Australia, Kevin recalls a handful of proud wins:

“He has given me many lifts to events and he likes to talk.

Other orienteers often give us a toot as they overtake us.

Kevin, however, toots at the birds on the road.

Year Type of event

Age class

1987 Australian Championships,

M45B, First

Canberra 1987 Eureka Tri-O

Paired with Vin, First

1991 Australian three-day

M45B, Second

1994 World Cup Orienteering three- First day challenge, Ballarat 2001 Victorian Championships,

M45+AS, Second

Whroo 2007 Victorian Middle-distance

First

Championships, Deadman’s Flat (Irishtown)

Like all orienteers, he remembers significant blunders. One of the worst was at Mt Pearson near the Bay of Fires in Tasmania in 2005 where he was off the map for two hours.

Kevin started mountain bike orienteering in 1998. To his first event at Lal Lal (near Ballarat) he brought a Peugeot fold-up bike. He was told that was unsuitable so after that, for a while, he rode his father’s bike.

He has competed in many mountain bike events in Victoria and interstate. He fondly remembers interstate competition in the company of Joyce Rowlands and the late Gordon Clarke.

Kevin is very observant. At Street-O, where the rest of us are just watching our maps and where we put our feet, Kathy Liley recalls Kevin’s coming back and asking had we seen that garden, or some other feature that had taken his eye. And with his shop-keeper's eye, he would regale comments about the stock or retailing practices of various small grocery stores along the way.

Usually, Kevin comes to orienteering events alone. He usually attends church nearby on Saturday evenings then camps alone in the bush, on a back road, or at the event site. Sometimes others travel with him. Mary Enter recalled: “One of my favourite memories is of an occasion when Kevin gave me a lift to an event in Canberra. We came home via Cann River and stopped for a break at a spot with a short nature walk. We set off and came to a little bridge with a sign

“He is an avid reader of histories and biographies and has lent me many books so that I can share in his enjoyment.”

Kathy recalls that he always has a story about some old railway he has followed or other historical feature he's seen along the way.

Kevin said that elder brother Michael came to orienteering long ago – but once was enough. His sister, Joan, once partnered Kevin in a Blodslitet – a tough way to start and, it seems, discouraging. His late sister, Margaret, attended one bike-O event at Kirth Kiln, near Gembrook. Kevin and Margaret brought just one bike to the event. Kevin went out first and gave the bike to Margaret, expecting her to do a course. But she just enjoyed riding around!

The O-shop In 1987, Kevin heard that Liz Randall wanted to sell the Oshop. He said to himself “I’m no athlete, I can’t make maps, I can’t set courses, but I can do retail.” So he and his father bought and ran the O-shop in partnership. Sue Sturgess, who managed the OV office before Peta Whitford, dubbed them The Dynamic Duo. The dynamism was not conspicuous in the sales pitch – there was no spruiking nor display-towers of loss leaders – but it was certainly present in the attention to customers. Kathy recalls, “Kevin remembered my sizes and preferences. When I commented that maybe I am ready for a new pair of shoes, he would immediately say something like, “No, I don't have your size/style of shoe in stock at present”, or “Yes, I think I've got what you need here ...” But then, Kathy was always a welcome customer. Her presence encouraged him in orienteering almost from when he started.

And one occasional visitor to orienteering bought an item from Kevin at the O-shop and was impressed by his attentive, cheerful manner. She lived in Canterbury and, some weeks later, she happened to be in the supermarket where Kevin worked. She saw him and, remembering the good service she’d had at the O-shop, she bowled up and enthusiastically said “Hello Kevin”. Now retailers pride themselves on knowing their customers but this was only the second time they’d met.

She recalled that he looked mildly embarrassed by what must have appeared to him to be an attractive and rather forward woman ‘coming on’ to him. After brief pleasantries, he quickly found he was required elsewhere.

Kevin always offers service. Christine Sinickas said: “I've always considered him to be one of the good guys. More than once if I

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didn't have money for a plastic card holder on the way to the start he would give me one anyway. He's a real service provider without any other motive than to please.” Indeed the O-shop has never been a cash cow. Its profits have covered the cost of Kevin’s fuel but Vin never received a dividend.

At interstate events, Kevin is less conspicuously entrepreneurial than his NSW or South Australian counterparts. He says that his business has changed markedly over the years. His peak sales were at the World Masters’ Championships in NSW/ACT in 2009 where many competitors wanted Southern Hemisphere compasses. And at the World Junior Championships in Dubbo in 2007, Kevin had in store many small-sized orienteering shoes – sizes 5, 6 and 7 – which no big-footed Australian wanted. However, like Cinderella’s glass slipper, they fitted the women in the Chinese team and, in offering generous prices, he quickly sold out.

scarred and constricted his oesophagus so that swallowing anything chunky has become impossible.

..and now Kevin attends events although breathlessness restricts his speed of movement to a bit over one kilometre per hour. His ability to source humour from everyday things remains undiminished. We love that quality and the enduring spirit that brings it out. Thank you, Kevin.

Acknowledgments Thank you to Kevin and to Kathy Liley, Mary Enter, Christine Sinickas, and Ian Cheyne (through Alan Thompson) for what they offered to this story.

Orienteers are fondly familiar with his van and trailer, and his tent, chairs and strip of brown vinyl on the ground at events.

He used to have a range of clothing, O-shoes, compasses, map bags, card holders, ankle tape and other accessories. This range has substantially narrowed in recent years either as supplies from companies like Silva have no longer been available to him, or as orienteering technology like SI sticks and waterproof paper have made some purchases redundant. He now specialises in O-shoes and some compasses.

Kevin is no longer physically able to lift his trailer. At the Bullengarook event in April this year, his fare for sale was displayed on a little table, with back-up supplies in the van.

Kevin’s health Kevin’s first encounter with cancer was a testicular growth removed surgically in 1987 without the need for radiotherapy of chemotherapy.

In 2013, he was found to have advanced bowel cancer.

Treatment at Dandenong hospital with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy was prolonged. For a while, his medications caused hallucinations – he heard voices and saw moving images on the wall. He was encouraged in his recovery by his siblings and a handful of friends in orienteering. Kathy Liley would sometimes call in after an event and bring her map for discussion. Mary Enter visited quite often and was present on one occasion when a nurse performed a painful procedure on Kevin. When he complained, she said to Mary, “How do you put up with him at home”. Mary very promptly retorted, “Oh! We’re not related.” Other visitors included Pam King and the Sheehans. Eventually Kevin regained enough strength to reappear in the bush.

Last year he was found to have cancer in the lung of a different histological type to the bowel form. Further surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy ensued, but the latter has

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Funded Projects A report from the new VOA Projects Coordinator WOR DS KATE M ORRI S P ROJECTS COORDINATOR

A new role of Projects Coordinator has been filled by Kate Morris, to ensure projects are running to plan, expenditure is tracked, reports are compiled and submitted, and assistance provided to leaders of projects. This role includes coordination of funding from Sports and Recreation Victoria (SRV) and other sources, such as Orienteering Australia (OA) in 2016/17. Peta Whitford (previous coordinator) handed over the projects in September 2016.

Firstly, thank you so much to all projects leaders and volunteers for their efforts in 2016 and committing to projects in 2017. As project coordinator, I greatly appreciate your input, suggestions, requests, and enthusiasm for orienteering projects.

SRV Funded Projects OV are currently in a 3-year (2016-2019) funding grant from Sports and Recreation Victoria (SRV) to run projects that will assist Orienteering Victoria (OV) to deliver rewarding outdoor adventure experiences and healthy, active lifestyles to new markets assisted by innovative tools and communications.

These projects are run by a mix of volunteers and paid staff.

SRV funded projects are accountable to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). DHHS give assistance to make sure reports are accurate and follow guidelines.

2016 Achievements include: • 5 female and 5 male juniors transitioned into mainstream orienteering • MTBO coaching for young members, run by Angus Robinson • Coaching Day for young orienteers, run by coaches in residence: Darebin Park and Ivanhoe Girls Grammar • Established a regular “Student News” column in OV ebulletin • Introduced PAS brochures to schools • Connect interested students and families with OV and clubs • Communicated with clubs to encourage the provision of relevant events such after school clinics, students and parents relay, or mini events on a nearby map.

Anne Robinson continues to lead this project in 2017.

Opportunities include a new postcard format for promoting orienteering to juniors, collaboration with the coach in residence to provide specific opportunities such as training and mentoring for coaching accreditation; and developing the junior squads to encourage more students to join orienteering as members.

Junior Transition Project

Under-represented Groups Project

Encourages students engaged in orienteering to continue beyond school, to become junior members of Orienteering Victoria. Run by Anne Robinson - Junior Transition Officer - with the assistance of volunteers, including Lanita Steer, Ken Moore, Raelee Eeenjes, and Angus Robinson.

Develops sustainable and inclusive opportunities for targeted under-represented groups.

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Women in Orienteering Targets school aged female students to address the imbalance existing in participants and memberships. Seeks to research the reasons for low female participation and memberships, and implement programs to provide the solutions. OV has a current 40/60% ratio of female/male members, also represented in the board.

• First Aid Training (Canoeing Victoria) • 2 participants • Coaching Accreditation • 3 members achieved Level 1 Coaching Accreditation • 1 member achieved re-accreditation in Level 3 Coaching

• Research completed outlining the reasons for low female participation in orienteering, Lara Wallis

The education project will continue in 2017 with an emphasis on funding members to gain or increase their accreditation in coaching and controlling. Currently OV have 7 accredited coaches and 23 accredited controllers.

• Identified key areas to support participation, such as pairs and student/parent relays

Coaches in Residence

2016 Achievements include:

• 50/50% female/male increase in junior members to orienteering in Victoria.

Currently covered by the Junior Transition project, this project will continue to implement strategies encouraging young females into orienteering in 2017.

People with a Disability In 2016, OV were in consultation with Blind Sports Victoria to increase the walking opportunities available to people with vision impairment, through orienteering programs with support from Achilles Melbourne (providing running aides/ partners for participants). Blind Sports have been unable to continue the partnership with OV. A new partnership with Yooralla has started in 2017, designed to introduce people with a disability to Orienteering. This follows an already established and competitive set up - the Newbury Navigators - who have been successfully orienteering with Dandenong Ranges Club for several years now. Sally Brownridge is instrumental in assisting Kate Morris to increase the number of people with a disability accessing orienteering in 2017.

Education Project Coaching, training, maintaining and improving skills for club members. In 2016 education was funded for coaching, mapping, and first aid courses.

2016 Achievements include: • Orienteering Training (Roch Prendergast) • Belltopper Hill: 22 participants from Clubs Eureka, Bendigo, Yarra Valley, Melbourne Forest Racers • Creswick State Forest: 15 participants from Clubs Eureka, Bendigo, Melbourne Forest Racers • Hepburn State Forest: 14 participants from Clubs Eureka, Bendigo, Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne Forest Racers • Enfield State Forest: 5 participants from Clubs Eureka, Melbourne Forest Racers

International orienteers spend 3-6 months in Victoria providing training and coaching, mapping, course setting, and competing in events. This encourages members to improve their skills, allows them to compete with international orienteers, gain experience, and try new techniques.

Carl Dalheim, David Jaffe and Margi Freemantle lead this project. OV members (4 families) volunteer their time and homes to host the coaches, providing mentorship, transport and assistance to run coach programs in Victoria.

2016 Achievements include: • 2 female Finnish coaches, Lotta and Noora, Sep-Nov 2016 • Case study featured in the annual SRV report • 3 bush training days: 10 participants each • 7 strength & fitness training sessions: 15 participants each • 6 review & improve sessions: Sprint into Spring series: 25-30 participants each • 7 review & improve sessions: Park& Street series: 10 participants each In 2017 Mikkel, a Danish orienteer, will be living in Victoria for 6 months. His program will include mapping opportunities, camps, and training sessions, with emphasis on increasing the number of sessions provided at bush events and for junior members, in collaboration with the Junior Transition project.

Marketing and Strategy Project Seeks to develop the OV website, imagery, and message to members, ensuring our communication encourages and supports future orienteers to the sport.

2016 Achievements include: • Online Content Strategy Report completed: Jennifer Gregory from Standout Online.

• A training forum was provided to give feedback on this report and allow for discussion of the findings. 20 members participated.

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• Margi Freemantle has stepped up to lead this project and will oversee substantial upgrades to the OV website in 2017.

Newsletter Communication of projects to members on a weekly basis.

Editor: Rebecca Jaffe.

2016 Achievements include: • Weekly E-bulletin In 2017, there has been an e-bulletin upgrade and the addition of a dedicated area for funding projects: Development Corner. Following website and social media updates later in the year, the newsletter will seek to encourage more members to provide newsfeeds, and hope to formalise assistance to the editor of the weekly e-bulletin.

Orienteering Australia Funded Projects Orienteering Australia (OA) funding for 2016-17 was provided to increase participation in orienteering in Victoria.

Ballarat Simple Urban Series (BUNS) A series of navigational events held in the streets and parks of Ballarat, encouraging people to visit some of the less common and little known areas of town. Participants will be given a map with up to 20 designated locations marked and the challenge is to find as many of these as possible in 45 minutes. Targeting students and families, and U3A (students over 60 years). Led by Ian Chennell, Eureka Club. Funding assisted to pay for organisers and mapping.

2016 Achievements include: • 20 events held over 4 terms • Over 200 participants • The project seeks to hold 100 events during 2017.

Maryborough Club Development Project Seeks to build the club through increasing participation, targeting school students and parents. Led by Blake Gordon and Geoff Lawford, with Dale Gordon, Jenny Bourne and Andrea Govan. Funding assisted to providing organisers, mapping, basic equipment and infrastructure for events.

2016 Achievements include: • New map of school grounds completed by Rod Gray and delivered in January 2016.

• Jenny Bourne has made several visits to the school to work with Andrea Govan on lesson plans and activities.

• Investigating setting a permanent course on the school grounds in October 2016.

• The project hopes to run an inter school event at the Maryborough school and invite Bendigo school in 2017.

Bendigo Park and Street Series A 6-week series targeted at new participants to urban orienteering in Bendigo. Events were held on a Sunday afternoon in prominent Bendigo locations. The project supported juniors to set courses, mentored by experienced course setters. Juniors were also enlisted to assist the organiser at the event, allowing them to familiarise with technology used at events.

Led by Craig Feuerherdt and Andrew Cameron from Bendigo Orienteering Club. Funding assisted in providing mapping, coordinators and organisers, and promotion.

2016 Achievements include: • Introduced over 100 new (non-orienteering bodies) to orienteering • Established a simple registration process which could be run by 1 person • Juniors set courses, placed and picked up controls • Participants remained for after-event social gatherings • Participants were motivated to continue, asking when further events will be run

MTBO promotional events targeting students and women Mountain Bike Orienteering Promotional Events in Victoria – 2016 & 2017 - targeting secondary school aged students and women for participation on weekends. Led by Kay Haarsma 2016 Achievements include: • The MTBO training program for students and women has commenced • Specialist coaching booked, Jess Douglas • Several Mapboards purchased and printing purchased as required for sessions

Orienteering Victoria Navigation Training Seeks to increase participation in orienteering in Victoria by providing navigation training to Scout Leaders. Led by Geoff Hudson, Greg Andrews provided training. This project was completed in 2016.

In 2017, I look forward to supporting the OV project leaders and volunteers to continue their stellar contributions to the sport, the SRV and OA projects.

Kate Morris, Projects Coordinator

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Sharing and Streamlining: sports administration moves forward WORDS BY PETA WHITFORD T HE EDUCATION M ANAGER AND S PORTS ADMI NISTRATOR

New title and another new face looking after a portion of the sports administration.

Each year has brought additional areas of responsibility in this job – the variety is great but at times the hours can seem daunting. As a result, in 2016, the OV Board agreed to separate the management of two project areas: Sport and Recreation – Victoria (SRV) and Orienteering Australia (OA) projects - and create a ‘Projects Officer’ position. Kate Morris was appointed in September 2016.

This has enabled Peta Whitford (previously the Promotion and Development Officer) to focus on managing the education programs (primary, secondary and tertiary) and to retain some of the general sports administration.

Sports Administration Answering general enquiries, assisting and advising schools on developing their own orienteering programs, maintaining schools equipment, and behind the scenes administration has continued from the OV office.

Then there is the ongoing need to administer applications for use of parkland and bush locations for schools sessions, as well as the Parks Victoria Licensed Tour Operator (LTO) system and the Statewide permits which are required for all Schools championships.

Working With Children Checks (WWCC) The number of OV members with current WWCCs continues to increase. By the end of 2016, 144 orienteers had current WWCCs (up from 128 in 2015) and 17 orienteers are Registered Teachers (up from 16 in 2015). Twelve older/ nonmembers have not renewed their WWCCs. All orienteers are urged to apply for a Working with Children Check - these are

free to volunteers – and help Orienteering Victoria to ensure our sporting events are safe environments for all children.

Defibrillators for Sporting Clubs and Facilities Program The Victorian Government through the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has provided Victorian sporting clubs with the opportunity to acquire an automatic external defibrillator (AED) for their club or sports facility. The package includes a high quality defibrillator, some basic training and a minimum of three years of essential maintenance. In 2016 OV took possession of its first unit. Five orienteers undertook training in the use of the defibrillator. The portable unit is housed with Peter Yeates (DROC) and brought to bush events.

In order to cater for the wide area in which orienteering events are held and the need to have an AED for every series and regional club, all Victorian clubs have been encouraged to apply for a unit. Ideally a unit can be designated to each region (North East Victoria, Bendigo, Ballarat) and event type/series.

Permanent Orienteering Courses Orienteering Victoria now offers permanent courses at 5 locations: Brimbank Park, Cardinia Reservoir Park, Darebin Parklands, Westerfolds Park and the You Yangs Regional Park (2 courses). The arrangement for Orienteering Service of Australia to promote and on-sell maps on behalf of clubs is working smoothly with a very efficient service provided.

These courses are used by the ‘fee for service’ schools programs, individuals, and scout and community groups; 45 additional schools and groups have registered their ongoing use with Orienteering Victoria.

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From schoolgrounds to parklands and bush areas - students navigate their way to success!

WORDS BY PETA WHITFORD T HE EDUCATION M ANAGER AND S PORTS ADMI NISTRATOR

Education programs for 2016 Orienteering Victoria offers wide range of educational opportunities to primary, secondary and tertiary students.

Annually programs offered are ‘fee for service’, Sporting Schools, four Schools State Championships and Professional Development Courses for teachers. Administration of this program is handled by Peta.

Fee for Service program (#1) Sporting Schools

Orienteering Victoria is very involved in the Sporting Schools program and is proud of its achievements.

Below is a table illustrating by numbers the schools serviced, number of participants and participations (2016).

Additionally, Kim Merkel from ‘Playball’ in Shepparton, has been accredited by Orienteering Victoria, as a commercial provider. It is great to have orienteering on offer in Central Victoria. Between mid -2015 and end of 2016 Kim has serviced 15 schools with a total of 260 students and 1614 student participations.

This program is possible in Victoria because of the 8 dedicated Sporting Schools Instructors who, after being trained, have worked with each of the schools to plan and develop a tailormade orienteering program.

Instructors for 2016:Jon Gordon, Anne Robinson, Jenny Lawford, Rob Edmonds, Helen Slater, Dennis Mews, plus not in photo - Karen Strachan and Emma Morris.

Since 2015, under the Australian Sports Commissions (ASC) ‘Sporting Schools’ Program, Victoria has been involved in servicing schools choosing to ‘try’ orienteering. In 2016, the program across Australia delivered programs in 5216 primary schools involving 32 different sports. Australia-wide orienteering was delivered to 142 schools involving 11,000 primary students. Schools apply for funding to cover mapping, purchase of orienteering equipment, lessons and teacher education. The average grant is $1700.

The essential school maps have been produced by: Andras Bogdanovits, Russell Bulman, Alan Davis, Rod Gray, Fredrik Johansson, Pam King, Martin Kozma and Greg Tamblyn.

Highlights shared by the Instructors Children arrived at session singing the ‘orienteering’ song from the Orienteering CD which staff had shown students prior to first session.

High level of parental involvement at some schools (organised

by PE teacher) where students progressed to using a nearby park, requiring more adult supervision.

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Students enjoying browsing through copies of the Australian Orienteer Magazines

A small step along the pathway.

Fee for Service programs (#2) Primary, Secondary and Tertiary

Students were interested in the personal O stories, O gear and O maps.

At one small rural school, Prep to Grade 2 students had trouble handling the plastic punches with their little hands, so SIME (electronic units and SI sticks) was introduced which made it easier for students to ‘punch’ at each control. At the same school the older students paired with a younger student, the younger student had to ‘punch’ the SIME unit while the older student navigated.

Students loved the “spot the difference” as activity.

Instructors loved the different challenges each school presented.

Instructors were inspired by the refreshingly positive ’open’ attitude of the students to trying a new activity, On arrival at a new school it was wonderful to receive a big welcome made as a visiting staff member.

Testimonial from Adrian Stepnell, Malvern Central School, PE Coordinator The orienteering program which Orienteering Victoria conducted at Malvern Central School was fantastic. The organization and dedicated passion for the program was very obvious. The instructors are professional and experienced having a very healthy and mindful connection with the students.

The program was designed to suit our needs. So a big thank you. I guarantee no school will not be disappointed with a very unique program.

The challenge now for Orienteering Victoria is to encourage the schools, teachers and students to take part in orienteering away from the school. In 2016, East Bentleigh Primary School, extended their students orienteering experiences with a day at Jells Park followed by participation in the Victorian Primary Schools Championships.

Sporting Schools

schools participating

schools mapped

adjacent reserves mapped

These educational programs continue to be offered in parkland and bushland areas with many committed schools making regular bookings. Each new year a few new schools coming on board, especially for ‘Outdoor Education and Team Building’ sessions.

My thanks to - Carl Stemp, Judi Herkes, Rob Edmonds, Paul Elam and Pam King for their continuing assistance to the schools program and newcomer instructors - Anne Robinson, Jon Gordon and Ainslie Cummins.

Summary of sessions/courses Primary School Sessions sessions, 13 schools)

=

684 students (14

Secondary School Sessions = sessions, 28 schools)

2586 students (45

Tertiary Sessions sessions)

=

Mapping of Schools

160 students (3 =

8 maps.

Teachers' Professional Development Courses (Level 0) = 6 courses, 33 teachers

Competitive Orienteering Programs for school aged children 2016 2016 has been a very full year, the greatest challenge was last minute situation of having to relocate the Eastern Zone Primary School Championships. The closure of Maroondah Reservoir Park, due to severe storm damage (over 120 trees felled), 3 weeks prior to event date, meant deciding on a new location, updating the map, setting new courses - all had to be completed in a short time!

Thanks to Orienteering Service of Australia (OSoA), for its continued support of Schools Orienteering, with the provision schools participants purchasing O gear

participations

teachers accredited Level O

Term 1

7

7

2

7

460

1410

8

Term 2

8

8

0

6

672

2546

0

Term 3

4

4

3

3

208

707

3

Term 4

11

10

6

7

761

1788

6

Total 2016

30

29

11

23

2101

6451

17

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of awards and results display slats for the various schools championships.

The Inter School Park and Street Orienteering Challenge Jon Gordon has continued as the key person for schools and school students at the Eastern Summer Series, Park and Street Orienteering Schools Challenge. His encouragement and welcoming environment ensures on-going commitment by the schools and students.

9

East Bentleigh PS

35

10

Montmorency South PS

30

11

Wandin North PS

19

12

Hampton PS

10

12

Kew East PS

10

12

Whitfield District PS

10

15

St Francis de Sal

7

16

Home School

6

The Western Zone Championships were held at Hanging Rock– with 512 students from 10 schools.

Report from Jon Congratulations to Scotch College for once again dominating the competition and taking the trophy back.

Well done Trinity, who only had a dozen or so students each week, but still managed 2nd place.

The average weekly participation was 69, with a total of 274 participations over the 4 week competition.

Final Schools results 1st Place Scotch College 1379

Champion school points

2nd Place Trinity Grammar 526 3rd Place Camberwell Grammar 490

The Victorian Primary Schools Orienteering Championship The Eastern Zone Championships were held at Westerfolds Park with 632 students from 18 schools.

Champion School points 1

Glen Katherine PS

408

2

Toorak College

112

3

Trinity GS

109

5

St Joseph's Boronia

101

4

Gembrook PS

100

6

Warrandyte PS

76

7

St Pauls AGS

53

8

Ballam Park PS

50

1

Macedon PS

440

2

Westgarth PS

344

3

Braemar College

215

4

Romsey PS

46

5

Camp Hill PS

29

6

Bolinda PS

23

7

Montmorency South PS

17

8

Queen of Peace PS

15

The Victorian Secondary Schools Orienteering Championships: Held in May at Plenty River – Yellow Gum Recreation Area – with 276 entries from 27 schools.

• Best School - Braemar College • Best Government School – Ringwood Secondary School • Best Boys School –Trinity Grammar

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• Best Girls School – Lowther Hall

8

St Pauls AGS

9

• Best co-educational school – Braemar College

8

Melb HS

9

• Best medium size school ( 16 – 30 students) – Scotch College

8

Creek Street C Sch

9

9

Girton Grammar

8

9

Crusoe College

8

• Best small size school (1 – 15 students) – Trinity Grammar

Victorian Schools Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships

The 12th MTBO championship was held at Lysterfield Lake Park, 170 entries from 13 schools.

Results: Place

School

Points

1

Braemar College

191

2

Balwyn High School

84

3

Koo Wee Rup

56

4

Woodleigh School

34

5

Bendigo SS College

29

6

St Leonards College

19

7

Viewbank College

10

7

Mt Eliza North PS

10

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How active will you be in 2017?

BY KATHY LI LE Y

In 2016, Peter Yeates and Debbie Dodd both attended over 150 orienteering events in Victoria!

What about you? Do you know any of the 1,258 people who only attended one event? What an impact if we could persuade them to come to a couple more events! Sometimes more than one event is needed for a decent try-out.

The Table shows 24,413 participations last year. 300 of those belong to Peter and Debbie. Some people competed in all categories – Bush, MTBO, Park/Street evening events ...

Have you tried all types of orienteering on offer in Victoria? If not, why not spread your wings and find different footwear, and we’ll see you extending our numbers for this year.

Kathy Liley compiles the annual OV Participation statistics.

VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING PARTICIPATION SUMMARY 2016 Events Held

Event Participation

State Champs (Foot)

4

629

School Champs (Vic ) incl MTBO

4

1,505

OY/NOL

11

1,417

Day events - local club events, incl bush, sprint and PAS

115

7,345

Evening events

186

12,167

Other school events with Eventor results

13

650

MTBO incl Vic Champs

23

700

356

24,413

TOTAL Stats collected this year did not include RadiO.

These are the officially recorded figures. Does not include approx 600 participants in 12 PAS or Saturday events for which results were not recorded.

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2016 TOTAL PARTICIPATIONS IN OV EVENTS All events

Total events

Excluding Vic School Champs & other school events

No of events excluding Schools

Bush+DUO

4,733

58

4,486

57

Park/Street

16,667

253

14,924

238

Sprint

2,148

22

2,148

22

MTBO

865

23

700

22

Totals

24,413*

356

22,258*

339

*add approx 600 see note below Estimated number of individuals participating in Victorian Schools Championships in 2016 = 1505 plus 650 in other school events for which results were recorded in Eventor

Note also, that of the 339 events, there are 12 for which results were not available, so the actual total of participants will be a bit higher (though thes 7 were evening PAS events, the remainder Saturday events. Perhaps 600 additional participations.

2016 TOTAL OF INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANTS IN VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING EVENTS Note, a detailed count of participants in the Vic Schools Champs events and school events organised in/around Bendigo was not done this year.

Note: there were no national Championship events in Victoria in 2016.

The following data refer to OV-sponsored events EXCLUDING Vic Schools Champs and other schools events.

Does include school champs in 2015 Aus Champs Carnival.

Comparisons are given with 2013 (when Vic hosted the Easter Carnvial) and 2014 (when there was no major Aus carnival in Victoria)

INDIVIDUALS AT BUSH EVENTS BY NUMBER OF EVENTS 2016

2015

2014

2013

57

73

70

71

30+

2

20

25

23

20-29

37

53

40

56

10-19

105

135

119

121

5-9

159

471

132

130

3-4

122

369

191

569

2

132

175

207

113

1

444

483

468

440

1001

1706

1182

1452

No of events

Total individuals

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INDIVIDUALS AT BUSH EVENTS BY GENDER/ AGE 2016

%

2015

%

2014

%

2013

%

Males

532

53%

963

56%

650

55%

791

54%

Females

419

42%

682

40%

432

37%

602

41%

Not known

50

5%

61

4%

100

8%

59

4%

Juniors <21

119

12%

329

19%

144

12%

238

16%

Seniors 21-34

63

6%

113

7%

112

9%

141

10%

Veterans 35+

406

41%

798

47%

441

37%

748

52%

Not known

413

41%

466

OV financial members

444

44%

446

26%

Interstate/overseas

30

3%

701

41%

Others

485

325

309

26%

363

25%

559

INDIVIDUALS AT MELBUSHO EVENTS BY NUMBER OF EVENTS (Included in Bush/PAS Event totals )

No of events

2016

2015

2014

8

10

8

10

1

4-9

117

156

90

2-3

154

153

176

1

301

322

281

572

632

547

Total individuals

INDIVIDUALS AT MELBUSHO EVENTS BY GENDER/ AGE 2016

%

2015

%

2014

%

Males

303

53%

342

54%

278

51%

Females

230

40%

242

38%

212

39%

Not known

39

7%

47

7%

57

10%

Juniors <21

61

11%

69

11%

45

8%

Seniors 21-34

30

5%

37

6%

45

8%

Veterans 35+

223

39%

237

38%

214

39%

Not known

258

45%

289

46%

243

44%

OV financial members

230

40%

246

39%

175

32%

2

0%

Interstate/overseas

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INDIVIDUALS AT PARK/STREET EVENTS BY NUMBER OF EVENTS NOTE: IN 2015 & 2016, DESIGNATED SPRINT EVENTS HAVE BEEN COUNTED SEPARATELY 2016

2015

2014

2013

238

206

216

237

100+

12

19

21

20

50-99

63

59

70

70

20-49

115

118

119

131

10-19

115

121

103

119

4-9

348

291

316

392

2-3

416

284

311

365

1

993

778

780

1152

2062

1670

1720

2249

No of events

Total individuals

INDIVIDUALS AT AT PARK/STREET EVENTS BY GENDER/ AGE 2016

%

2015

%

2014

%

2013

%

Males

1091

53%

942

56%

937

54%

1255

56%

Females

887

43%

683

41%

708

41%

923

41%

Not known

84

4%

45

3%

75

4%

71

3%

Juniors <21

287

14%

206

12%

302

18%

406

18%

Seniors 21-34

155

8%

148

9%

196

11%

244

11%

Veterans 35+

679

33%

624

37%

589

34%

795

35%

Not known

941

46%

692

41%

633

37%

804

36%

OV financial members

461

22%

309

19%

268

16%

331

15%

Interstate/overseas

42

2%

100

6%

1559

76%

1261

76%

1654

74%

Others

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INDIVIDUALS AT DESIGNATED SPRINT EVENTS BY NUMBER OF EVENTS 2016

2015

22

11

10+

62

7

4-9

182

130

2-3

140

392

1

148

465

532

994

No of events

Total individuals

INDIVIDUALS AT DESIGNATED SPRINT EVENTS BY GENDER/ AGE 2016

%

2015

%

Males

309

58%

574

58%

Females

214

40%

408

41%

Not known

9

2%

12

1%

Juniors <21

127

24%

295

30%

Seniors 21-34

55

10%

66

7%

Veterans 35+

262

49%

518

52%

Not known

88

17%

115

12%

OV financial members

310

58%

260

26%

Interstate/overseas

96

18%

594

60%

Others

126

24%

140

14%

2016

2015

2014

2013

23

27

17

21

INDIVIDUALS AT MTBO EVENTS BY NUMBER OF EVENTS

No of events 15+

3

10-14

24

8

20

5-9

52

38

44

37

3-4

75

91

31

15

2

27

69

73

90

1

54

121

102

123

208

343

258

288

Total individuals

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INDIVIDUALS AT MTBO EVENTS BY GENDER/ AGE 2016

%

2015

%

2014

%

2013

%

Males

135

65%

230

67%

191

74%

216

75%

Females

67

32%

108

31%

66

26%

70

24%

Not known

6

3%

5

1%

1

0%

2

1%

Juniors <21

15

7%

36

10%

26

10%

24

8%

Seniors 21-34

16

8%

24

7%

27

10%

44

15%

Veterans 35+

141

68%

207

60%

137

53%

170

59%

Not known

36

17%

76

22%

68

26%

50

17%

OV financial members

111

53%

117

34%

99

38%

103

36%

Interstate/overseas

41

20%

86

25%

23

9%

Others

56

27%

140

41%

136

53%

119

41%

TOTAL INDIVIDUALS OVER ALL TYPES OF EVENTS 2016

2015

2843

3254

No. > 150 events

2

3

No. 100-149 events

19

23

No. 50-99

69

2%

77

2%

No. 10-49

404

14%

441

14%

No. 5-9

346

12%

801

25%

No. 2-4

745

26%

771

24%

No. only one event

1258

44%

1138

35%

Total

(Aus Champs year) Peter Yeates, Debbie Dodd

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VICTORIAN honour roll COMPILED BY BLAIR TREWIN

Victorian members of national teams, 2016 The following Victorians were members of Australian national teams in 2016: World Orienteering Championships (Sweden, August) Leon Keely, Natasha Key Junior World Orienteering Championships (Switzerland, July) Matthew Doyle, Patrick Jaffe, Aston Key, Lanita Steer, Asha Steer World University Orienteering Championships (Hungary, August) Matthew Doyle Australian Schools Honour Team Patrick Jaffe

Victorian performances in team competitions Victorian teams or clubs achieved the following results in national team competitions in 2016: National Orienteering League Senior Men 2nd & Senior Women 1st Junior Men 1st & Junior Women 2nd Orienteering Australia Shield 4th Xanthorrhoea Trophy 5th Australian Schools Championships 6th Champion Club Trophy Melbourne Forest Racers 2nd & Yarra Valley 6th The following Victorians achieved top-ten individual performances in the 2016 National Orienteering League: Senior men Leon Keely (2nd), Matthew Doyle (9th), Bruce Arthur (10th) Senior women Natasha Key (1st), Aislinn Prendergast (6th) Junior men Matthew Doyle (1st), Patrick Jaffe (2nd), Aston Key (3rd) Junior women Lanita Steer (1st), Asha Steer (6th), Rosie Dalheim (9th) The following Victorians achieved top-ten individual performances at the 2016 Australian Schools Championships: Senior boys Patrick Jaffe (2nd sprint, 1st long), Jimmy Cameron (5th long)

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VICTORIAN FOOT-O Results COMPILED BY BLAIR TREWIN

2016 Victorian Long Distance Orienteering Championships (Chapel Flat) M21E

Kerrin Rattray

W21E

Natasha Key

M10A

Luke Feuerherdt

W10A

Sophie Arthur

M12A

Torren Arthur

M14A

Mason Arthur

W14A

Serryn Eenjes

M16A

Brody McCarthy

W16A

Sarah Davies

M17-20A

Patrick Jaffe

W17-20A

Lanita Steer

W21A

Cassandra Dutton

M35A

Jim Russell

W35A

Lian Perry

M40A

Dion Keech

W40A

Liliia Glushchecnko

M45A

Blair Trewin

W45A

Jenny Bourne

M50A

Martin Steer

W50A

Nicola Dalheim

M55A

Warren Key

W55A

Carolyn Jackson

M60A

Ted van Geldermalsen

W60A

Fiona Fell

M65A

Paul Elam

W65A

Libby Meeking

M70A

Leigh Privett

W70A

Judi Herkes

W75A

Helen Alexander

W80A

Joyce Rowlands

W55AS

Sheila Colls

Long Open B

Heather O'Donnell

M80A

John Dempster

M85A

Graeme Cadman

M21AS

James Gray

M55AS

Bill Vandendool

2016 Victorian Middle Distance Championships (Borhoney Ghurk) M21E

Warren Key

W21E

Natasha Key

M10A

Ashley White

W10A

Eleanor Williams

M12A

Callum White

M14A

Jensen Key

W14A

Serryn Eenjes

M16A

Michael Loughnan

W16A

Karina Cherry

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VICTORIAN FOOT-O Results 2016 Victorian Middle Distance Championships - contâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d M17-20A

Aston Key

W17-20A

Lanita Steer

M35A

Geoff Lawford

W35A

Jenny Bourne

M40A

Dion Keech

W40A

Liliia Glushchenko

M45A

Gary Buchan

M50A

Don Cherry

W50A

Janine Steer

M55A

Tim Hatley

W55A

Margi Freemantle

M60A

Chris Norwood

W60A

Helen Edmonds

M65A

Tony Radford

W65A

Alison Radford

M70A

Tim Dent

W70A

Ruth Goddard

M75A

Peter Prime

W75A

Helen Alexander

M80A

Ian Baker

M85A

Graeme Cadman Long Open B

Elizabeth Hatley

M Open B

Merv Bendle

W Open B

Raelee Eenjes

M/W Open Easy

Joanne Cherry

W Junior B

Alicia Ciacic

2016 Victorian Sprint Orienteering Championships (Camp Hill, Bendigo) M21A

Kerrin Rattray

W21A

Liis Johansen

M10A

Luke Feuerherdt

W10A

Sophie Arthur

M12A

Torren Arthur

W12A

Claire Adams

M14A

Haydn Tang

W14A

Serryn Eeenjes

M16A

Michael Loughnan

W16A

Sarah Davies

M17-20A

Jonathan Ray

W17-20A

Lanita Steer

M35A

Craig Feuerherdt

W35A

Jayne Sales

M45A

Ian Dodd

W45A

Carola Ray

M55A

Tim Hatley

W55A

Jenny Bourne

M60A

Ted van Geldermalsen

W60A

Denise Pike

M65A

Tony Radford

W65A

Libby Meeking

M70A

Peter Searle

W70A

Judi Herkes

M75A

Des Gregory

W75A

Helen Alexander

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national FOOT-O Results COMPILED BY BLAIR TREWIN

2016 australian Middle Distance Championships (Stanthorpe, Queensland) 1st

2nd

3rd

Lanita Steer

W17-20E

Patrick Jaffe

M17-20E

Natasha Key

W21E

Craig Feuerherdt

M40A

Luke Feuerherdt

M10A

Torren Arthur

M12A

Warren Key

M55A

Jim Russell

M55A

Jensen Key

M14A

Milla Key

W10A

Alex Tarr

M70A

Ted van Gelermalsen

M60A

Jenny Bourne

W60A

Merv Bendle

M Open B

Sophie Arthur

W10A

Sue Healy

W85A

Carolyn Jackson

W55A

Janet Tarr

W70A

Margaret Kertesz

Open Moderate

2016 australian long Distance Championships (Stanthorpe, Queensland) 1st

2nd

3rd

Patrick Jaffe

M17-20E

Natasha Key

W21E

Luke Feuerherdt

M10A

Lanita Steer

W17-20E

Torren Arthur

M12A

Craig Feuerherdt

M40A

Bruce Arthur

M40A

Warren Key

M55A

Blair Trewin

M45A

Alex Tarr

M70A

Ted van Geldermalsen

M60A

Geoff Lawford

M55A

Sophie Arthur

W10A

Milla Key

W10A

Nicola Dalheim

W50A

Carolyn Jackson

W55A

Philippa LohmeyerCollins

W55AS

Jenny Bourne

W60A

Joshua Feuerherdt

M/W10N

Sue Healy

W85A

Merv Bendle

Long Open B

2016 australian relay Championships (Beaudesert, Queensland) 1st

2nd

M14A

Torren Arthur, Mason Arthur, Jensen Key

M55A

Warren Key, Ted van Geldermalsen, Tim Hatley

W21E

Natasha Key, Clare Brownridge, Laurina Neumann

M17-20E

Patrick Jaffe, Jimmy Cameron, Matt Doyle

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NATIONAL FOOT-O Results 3rd

Women Open B

Serryn Eenjes, Caitlyn Steer, Anne Arthur

M21E

Simon Rouse, Craig Feuerherdt, Bruce Arthur

M21AS

Warwick Williams, Toby Cooper, Margaret Kertesz

W65A

Ruth Goddard, Libby Meeking, Dale Ann Gordon

2016 australian sprint Championships (ballarat) 1st

2nd

3rd

Natasha Key

W21E

Patrick Jaffe

M17-20E

Lanita Steer

W17-20E

Alice Bills

W17-20A

Torren Arthur

M12A

Joshua Feuerherdt

M/W10N

Craig Feuerherdt

M40A

Warren Key

M55A

Ted van Geldermalsen

M60A

Sophie Arthur

W10A

Jenny Bourne

W60A

Joyce Rowlands

W80A

Ian Davies

M55A

Australian 3-Days (Canberra, ACT) 1st

2nd

3rd

Matthew Doyle

M17-20E

Natasha Key

W21E

Leon Keely

M21E

Bruce Arthur

M40A

Patrick Jaffe

M17-20E

Asha Steer

W17-20E

Warren Key

M55A

Even Fossum

M17-20A

John Carberry

M45AS

Ted van Geldermalsen

M60A

Geoff Lawford

M55A

Anne Arthur

W35AS

Tony Radford

M65A

Chris Norwood

M60A

Susannah King

W45AS

Tim Dent

M70A

Graeme Cadman

M85A

Barbara McCrae

W65AS

Peter Prime

M75A

Milla Key

W10A

Sophie Arthur

W10A

Carolyn Jackson

W55A

Melissa Gangemi

W35A

Sue Key

W60A

Nicola Dalheim

W50A

Alison Radford

W65A

Jenny Bourne

W60A

Kathy Liley

W65AS

Sue Healy

W85A

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MTBO Results COMPILED BY PETER CUSWORTH

Australian MTBO Championships 15-16 October, Dwellingup, Western Australia Victorian placegetters SPRINT Championship 2nd: W21 Carolyn Jackson (BK); W60 Carolyn Cusworth (BK); M14 Lyke Martin-Gordon (EU); M21 Angus Robinson (BK); M60 Peter Cusworth (BK); M70 Leigh Privett (AW)

MIDDLE Championship 1st: M21 Angus Robinson (BK); M70 Leigh Privett (AW) 2nd: W21 Carolyn Jackson (BK); M60 Peter Cusworth (BK) 3rd: M60 Bill Vandendool (BK); M70 Keith Wade (TK)

LONG Championship 1st: M21 Angus Robinson (BK); M60 Peter Cusworth (BK); M70 Leigh Privett (AW) 2nd: W21 Carolyn Jackson (BK); W60 Carolyn Cusworth (BK); M14 Lyke Martin-Gordon (EU); M70 Keith Wade (TK) 3rd: M21 Tim Jackson (BK)

Australian State Champion Plaque Scored at the Australian MTBO Champs in Western Australia 1st: WA – 96 points; 2nd: VICTORIA – 78.5 points; 3rd NSW – 50 points

Victorian MTBO Championships – Beechworth 15-16 April 2016 Middle Championship 1st: W70 Dale Ann Gordon (EU); W80 Joyce Rowlands (NE); M14 Jack Wigney (BG); M60 Peter Cusworth (BK); M70 Peter Searle (BG); M80 John Sheahan (BK).

2nd: W21 Carolyn Jackson (BK); W40 Melissa Biviano (NE); W50 Heather Leslie (BK); W60 Peta Whitford (YV); W75 Jenny Sheahan (BK); M14 Will Jessup (AW); M21 Tim Jackson (BK); M50 Stephen Hanlon (CH); M70 Blake Gordon (EU).

3rd: W40 Ronice Goebel (AW); W50 Monica Dickson (EU); W60 Helen Edmonds (NE); M40 Tony Keeble (EU).

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MTBO Results

Sprint Championship 1st: W14 Serryn Eenjes (BG); W21 Carolyn Jackson (BK); W70 Dale Ann Gordon (EU); M14 Jack Wigney (BG); M21 Angus Robinson (BK); M80 John Sheahan (BK).

2nd: W75 Jenny Sheahan (BK); M14 Will Jessup (AW); M60 Peter Cusworth (BK); M70 Blake Gordon (EU).

3rd: W60 Peta Whitford (YV).

Long Championship 1st: W14 Serryn Eenjes (BG); W21 Carolyn Jackson (BK); W70 Dale Ann Gordon (EU); M14 Jack Wigney (BG); M60 Peter Cusworth (BK).

2nd: W21 Thorlene Egerton (BK); W50 Monica Dickson (EU); M14 Will Jessup (AW); M50 Stephen Hanlon (CH); M70 Peter Searle (BG).

3rd: M21 Angus Robinson (BK); M40 Dion Keech (MF); M70 Blake Gordon (EU).

2016 Vic MTBO Series Series winners Course 1: Male – Angus Robinson (BK); Female – Carolyn Jackson (BK) Course 2: Male – Tim Hatley (BK); Female – Melinda Buchanan (OV) Course 3: Male – Keith Wade (TK); Female – Heather Leslie (BK) Course 4: Male – Blake Gordon (EU); Female – Peta Whitford (YV) Scatter course: Kathy Liley (YV)

2016 National MTBO SeriesVictorian placegetters 1st: W21 Carolyn Jackson (BK); W70 Dale Ann Gordon (EU); W80 Joyce Rowlands (NE); M14 Jack Wigney (BG); M80 John Sheahan (BK) 2nd: W70 Jenny Sheahan (BK); M21 Angus Robinson (BK); M60 Peter Cusworth (BK); M70 Blake Gordon (EU) 3rd: M14 Will Jessup (AW); M21 Timothy Jackson (BK); M70 Leigh Privett (AW)

2016 World Masters MTBO Series Victorian placings 1st: W75 Jenny Sheahan (BK); W80 Joyce Rowlands (NE); M80 Graeme Cadman (YV).

3rd: W70 Dale Ann Gordon (EU); 4th: W60 Helen Edmonds (NE); 6th: M75 Keith Wade (TK); W65 Peta Whitford (YV).

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2017 OV PARK and STREET ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS COMPILED BY ray howe Wednesday 1st March, 2017 on Bellbird Dell map in Vermont South Course Setter: Ron Frederick (NE)

Event (White Series)

1st

2nd

3rd

Mens Open

Bruce ARTHUR (MFR)

Luke HAINES (GE)

Peter HOBBS (DR)

Mens Senior

Ian DAVIES (DR)

Colin PEARCE (DR)

Ted van GELDERMALSEN (YV)

Mens Veteran

Steve O'CONNELL (BK)

Tim HATLEY (BK)

Peter MALLEN NE)

Mens SuperVet

Tony BIRD (DR)

Warwick DAVIS (TK)

Rick BAILES (NE)

Womens Open

Lanita STEER (DR)

Asha STEER (DR)

Rachel JOHNSON (NE)

Womens Veteran

Janine STEER (DR)

Josie YEATMAN (NE)

Debbie DODD (DR)

Womens SuperVet

Carolyn JACKSON (MFR)

Denise PIKE (DR)

Philippa LOHMEYER-COLLINS (BK)

Mens PW Open

Dave STILLWELL (NE)

Bernie HOLLAWAY (BK)

Ian McLEAN (TK)

Mens PW SuperVet

Peter GROVER (DR)

Dennis MEWS (BK)

Len BUDGE (BK)

Womens PW Open

Jo TORR (BK)

Lyn GREENWOOD (DR)

Lara BELL (BK)

Helen KERLEY (DR)

Ros KING (DR)

Rosie SALVARIS (BK)

Junior Boys (U19)

Brody McCARTHY (YV)

no qualifier

no qualifier

Junior Girls (U19)

no qualifier

no qualifier

no qualifier

Womens PW SuperVet

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OV PARK and STREET ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONS The OV Park and Street Orienteering Championships are conducted annually using the following two series of events in alternate years.

White Series: Open Championship (unrestricted), Senior Championship (40-49 yrs), Veteran Championship (50-59 yrs), SuperVet Championship (60+ yrs), Junior (Under19 yrs) Orange Series: Open Championship (unrestricted) Senior Championship (35-44 yrs), Veteran Championship (45-54 yrs), SuperVet Championship (55- 64 yrs), UltraVet Championship (65+ yrs), Junior (Under19 yrs) Men Champions Year

Series

Open

Senior

Veteran

SuperVet

UltraVet

2013

White

BRUCE ARTHUR

GEOFF McLEAN

TIM HATLEY

TONY BIRD

no event

2014

Orange

BRUCE ARTHUR

TIM WARDROP

TED van GELDERMALSEN

TIM HATLEY

PETER KEMPSTER

2015

White

BRUCE ARTHUR

GEOFF McLEAN

IAN DODD

RICK BAILES

no event

2016

Orange

BRUCE ARTHUR

SIMON ROUSE

STEVE O'CONNELL

TIM HATLEY

TONY BIRD

2017

White

BRUCE ARTHUR

IAN DAVIES

STEVE O'CONNELL

TONY BIRD

no event

Women Champions Year

Series

Open

Senior

Veteran

SuperVet

2013

White

RACHEL JOHNSON

no event

CAROLYN JACKSON

no event

2014

Orange

RACHEL JOHNSON

JANINE STEER

CAROLYN JACKSON

no event

2015

White

RACHEL JOHNSON

no event

JANINE STEER

no event

2016

Orange

RACHEL JOHNSON

JANINE STEER

CAROLYN JACKSON

no event

2017

White

LANITA STEER

no event

JANINE STEER

CAROLYN JACKSON

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OV PARK and STREET ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONS

Men Power Walking Champions Year

Series

Open

2013

White

2014

Orange

PHIL TORODE

2015

White

2016 2017

SuperVet

Women Power Walking Champions UltraVet

Open

SuperVet

no event

MARIA MAIN

LYN GREEN

BERNIE HOLLAWAY

BARRY GILES

JO TORR

PRUE DOBBIN

STEVE O'CONNELL

RON FREDERICK

no event

JO TORR

LYN GREEN

Orange

DAVE STILLWELL

LEN BUDGE

RON FREDERICK

ANNE ROBINSON

JO TORR

White

DAVE STILLWELL

Peter GROVER

no event

JO TORR

HELEN KERLEY

ANDREW HUNTER MICHAEL HAYWARD

Course Setters Year

Series

2013

White

2014

Junior Champions Boys

Girls

VIC SEDUNARY

ANGUS ROBINSON

LANITA STEER

Orange

BRYAN ACKERLY

ANGUS ROBINSON

LANITA STEER

2015

White

JOHN MEEKING

NICK COLLINS

LANITA STEER

2016

Orange

IAN GREENWOOD

BRODY McCARTHY

-

2017

White

RON FREDERICK

BRODY McCARTHY

-

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VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2016

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VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION ABN 85 554 483 914

Contents Committee Report

2

Statement of Comprehensive Income

3

Statement of Financial Position

4

Statement of Changes in Equity

5

Statement of Cash Flows

6

Notes to the Financial Statements

8

Statement by Members

12

Certificate by Member of the Committee

13

Independent Audit Report

14

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VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION ABN 85 554 483 914 COMMITTEE REPORT Your committee members submit the financial report of Victorian Orienteering Association for the financial year ended 31 December 2016.

Committee Members The names of committee members throughout the year and at the date of this report are: Bruce Arthur Ruth Goddard Carl Dalheim Margi Freemantle David Jaffe Principal Activities The principal activities of the association during the financial year were to provide sporting and social facilities to members of the association.

Significant Changes No significant change in the nature of these activities occurred during the year.

Operating Result The surplus after providing for income tax amounted to $13,289 (last year surplus $24,291).

Signed in accordance with a resolution of the members of the committee.

Bruce Arthur President

Ruth Goddard Treasurer Date: 8 May 2017

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VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION ABN 85 554 483 914 STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2016 2016 $

2015 $

Income Major Events & Carnivals Event Entry Fees Member Subscriptions Magazine Subscriptions Club Affiliation Fees Government Grants Events Levies Merchandise Sales Promotion & Development Sundry Receipts Interest Received Total Income

11,907 13,680 3,017 2,182 89,605 58,714 625 80,352 186 8,915 269,183

263,158 14,727 14,416 5,363 909 50,538 52,320 1,535 56,161 253 10,271 469,651

Less: Cost of Sales SI Card Stock Depletion Events Costs Promotion & Development Training Courses Total Cost of Sales Gross Surplus (Deficit)

1,064 22,787 37,339 61,190 207,993

1,228 212,904 19,639 109 233,880 235,771

Expenditure Audit Fees Bank/Merchant Fees & Charges Control Card Printing Depreciation of Equipment Equipment Maintenance - Non SI Equipment Maintenance - SI Fixture Printing General Equipment Grant Disbursement Insurance Levies & Affiliation Fees - OA Meeting & Board Reimbursements Membership Fees - Non OA Office Other expenses Periodical - "Australian Orienteer" Periodical - "Orienteer Victoria" Periodical Postage Promotion & Development Software Licences & Maintenance Superannuation Wages - Casual Staff Wages - Permanent Staff Websites WorkCover Premiums Total Expenditure Net Operating Surplus

2,700 680 3,395 3,100 4,520 1,098 4,621 1,041 5,340 3,894 31,259 957 484 8,336 16,415 7,622 4,496 2,006 18,322 1,053 9,320 4,115 58,680 177 1,073 194,704 13,289

1,945 4,908 1,953 2,584 6,861 6,008 6,805 13,258 3,063 49,556 1,481 805 3,576 3,057 7,336 4,985 1,132 20,610 786 7,634 4,726 55,908 1,446 1,057 211,480 24,291

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION ABN 85 554 483 914 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2016

Note Current Assets Cash Term Deposits Inventories Other Current Assets Total Current Assets

2016 $

2015 $

136,511 217,926 1,652 356,089

116,004 211,384 2,002 750 330,140

2

4,235 4,235 360,324

6,047 6,047 336,187

3

26,689 26,689

15,841 15,841

Total Liabilities Net Assets

26,689 333,635

15,841 320,346

Members' Fund Development Fund Reserve Retained Surplus Total Members' Fund

13,212 320,423 333,635

13,212 307,134 320,346

Non-Current Assets Plant and Equipment Total Assets Current Liabilities Other Payables Total Current Liabilities

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION ABN 85 554 483 914 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2016

$ Development Fund Reserve: Balance at 1 January 2016 Adjustment During the Year Balance at 31 December 2016

13,212 13,212

Retained Surplus: Balance at 1 January 2016 Adjustment During the Year Balance at 31 December 2016

307,134 13,289 320,423

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION ABN 85 554 483 914 STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2016

2016 $

2015 $

Cash flows from operating activities Receipts from Operating Activities Payments to Suppliers & Employees Interest Received Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

260,268 (240,847) 8,915 28,336

459,380 (443,587) 10,271 26,064

Cash flows from investing activities Payments for Plant & Equipment Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

(1,287) (1,287)

Cash flows from financing activities Repayment of the loan Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

-

-

-

Net increase (decrease) in cash held

27,049

26,064

Cash at beginning of financial year Cash at end of financial year

327,388 354,437

301,324 327,388

136,511 217,926 354,437

116,004 211,384 327,388

Reconciliation of Cash For the purposes of the cash flow statement, cash includes cash and cash equivalents.

Cash at the end of the financial year as shown in the cash flow statement is reconciled to the related items in the balance sheet as follows: Cash Term Deposits

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION ABN 85 554 483 914 STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2016

2016 $

2015 $

Reconciliation of Cash Flow from Operations with Profit from Ordinary Activities after Income Tax Profit from Ordinary Activities Add (Less) : Non-Cash Flows in Profit (Loss) from ordinary Activities Depreciation Expense Add (Less) : Changes in Assets & Liabilities (Increase)/Decrease in Other Current Assets (Increase)/Decrease in Inventories Increase/(Decrease) in Other Payables Increase/(Decrease) in Development Fund Reserve Cash flow from operating activities

13,289

24,291

3,100

2,584

750 350 10,848 28,337

500 97 (9,679) (2,403) 15,390

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION ABN 85 554 483 914 NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2016 Note 1: Statement of Significant Accounting Policies The financial statements are special purpose financial statements prepared in order to satisfy the financial reporting requirements of the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012 VIC. The committee has determined that the association is not a reporting entity.

The financial statements have been prepared on a cash basis and are based on historic costs and do not take into account changing money values or, except where stated specifically, current valuations of non-current assets.

The following significant accounting policies, which are consistent with the previous period unless stated otherwise, have been adopted in the preparation of these financial statements.

(A) Basis of Preparation Reporting Basis and Conventions The financial report has been prepared on an accruals basis and does not take into account changing money values or, except where specifically stated, current valuations of non-current assets. Cost is based on the fair values of the consideration given in exchange for assets.

(B) Accounting Policies Income tax The association is exempt from income tax.

Plant and Equipment Each class of plant and equipment is carried at cost less, where applicable, any accumulated depreciation and impairment losses.

The carrying amount of each class of plant and equipment is reviewed annually to ensure it is not in excess of the recoverable amount from those assets. The recoverable amount is assessed on the basis of the expected net cash flows that will be received from the assets' employment and subsequent disposal. The expected net cash flows have not been discounted to present values in determining the recoverable amounts.

Subsequent costs are included in the asset's carrying amount recognised as a separate asset, as appropriate, only when it is probable that the future economic benefits associated with the item will flow to the association and the cost of the item can be measured reliably. All other repairs and maintenance are charged to the income statement during the financial period in which they are incurred.

Depreciation The depreciable amount of all plant & equipment including buildings and capitalised leased assets, is depreciated on a straight-line basis over their useful lives to the association commencing from the time the asset is held ready for use. Leasehold improvements are depreciated over the shorter of either the unexpired period of the lease or the estimated useful lives of the improvements.

The depreciation rates used for each class of depreciable assets are: Class of Asset Plant and Equipment Furniture & Fittings

Depreciation Rate % 5.00 to 40.00% 6.67 to 10.00%

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VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION ABN 85 554 483 914 NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2016 Note 1: Statement of Significant Accounting Policies (Cont.)

The assets residual values and useful lives are reviewed, and adjusted if appropriate, at each balance date.

An assets carrying amount is written down immediately to its recoverable amount if the asset's carrying amount is greater than its estimated recoverable amount.

Gains and losses on disposals are determined by comparing proceeds with the carrying amount. These gains and losses are included in the income statement. When revalued assets are sold, amounts included in the revaluation reserve relating to that asset are transferred to retained earnings.

Leases & Hire Purchases Leases of fixed assets, where substantially all the risks and benefits incidental to the ownership of the asset, but not legal ownership, are transferred to the association are classified as finance leases.

Finance leases are capitalised by recording an asset and a liability at the lower of the amount equal to the fair value of the leased property or the present value of the minimum lease payments, including any guaranteed residual values. Lease payments are allocated between the reduction of the lease liability and the lease interest expense for the period. Hire purchases are treated in the same way.

Leased assets are depreciated on a straight line basis over their estimated useful lives where it is likely that the association will obtain ownership of the asset or ownership over the term of the lease.

Lease payments under operating leases, where substantially all the risks and benefits remain with the leaser, are charged as expenses in the periods in which they are incurred.

Lease incentives under operating leases are recognised as a liability and amortised on a straight - line basis over the life of the lease term.

Impairment of Assets At each reporting date, the Board of Management reviews the carrying values of its tangible and intangible assets to determine whether there is any indication that those assets have been impaired. If such an indication exists, the recoverable amount of the asset, being the higher of the asset's fair value less costs to sell and value-in-use, is compared to the asset's carrying value. Any excess of the asset's carrying value over its recoverable amount is expensed to the income statement.

Where it is not possible to estimate the recoverable amount of an individual asset, the association estimates the recoverable amount of the cash-generating unit to which the asset belongs.

Employee Benefits Provision is made for the liability for employee benefits arising from services rendered by employees to balance date. Employee benefits that are expected to be settled within one year have been measured at the amount expected to be paid when the liability is settled, plus related on-costs. Employee entitlements payable later than one year have been measured at the present value of the estimated future cash out flows to be made for those benefits.

Cash and Cash Equivalents Cash and Cash Equivalents include cash on hand, deposits held at call with banks or financial institutions, other short term highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within short term borrowings in current liabilities on the balance sheet.

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VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION ABN 85 554 483 914 NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2016 Note 1: Statement of Significant Accounting Policies (Cont.)

Revenue All items of revenue, excluding funding revenue and interest revenue is recognised in full in the income year in which it is invoiced or received, which ever is the earlier.

Funding revenue is recognised when the right to receive the funding has been established.

Interest revenue is recognised on a proportional basis taking into account the interest rates applicable to the financial assets.

All revenue is stated net of the amount of goods and services tax (GST).

Goods and Services Tax (GST) Revenues, expenses and assets are recognised net of the amount of GST, except where the amount of GST incurred is not recoverable from the Australian Tax Office. In these circumstances, the GST is recognised as part of the cost of acquisition of the asset or as part of an item of the expense. Receivables and payables in the balance sheet are shown inclusive of GST. Cash flows are presented in the cash flow statement on a gross basis, except for the GST component of investing and financing activities, which are disclosed as operating cash flows.

Comparative Figures When required by Accounting Standards comparative figures have been adjusted to conform to changes in presentation for the current financial year.

(C) Critical Accounting Estimates and Judgements The Board of Management evaluates estimates and judgments incorporated into the financial report based on historical knowledge and best available current information. Estimates assume a reasonable expectation of future events and are based on current trends and economic data, obtained both externally and within the association.

Key estimates - Impairment: The association assesses impairment at each reporting date by evaluating conditions specific to the group that may lead to impairment of assets. Where an impairment trigger exists, the recoverable amount of the asset is determined. Value-in-use calculations performed in assessing recoverable amounts incorporate a number of key estimates.

Key judgments - Doubtful debts provision: No doubtful dept provision has been made at 31 December 2016, as there are no accounts receivable as at 31 December 2016.

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VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION ABN 85 554 483 914 NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2016 2016 $ Note 2: Plant and Equipment Office Equipment Less: Accumulated depreciation

2015 $

4,111 (3,030) 1,081

2,824 (2,054) 770

SI Trailer Less: Accumulated depreciation

818 (818) -

818 (818) -

SI Equipment Less: Accumulated depreciation

25,533 (22,555) 2,978

25,533 (20,574) 4,959

Training Equipment Less: Accumulated depreciation

2,424 (2,424) -

2,424 (2,424) -

Photographic Equipment Less: Accumulated depreciation

1,435 (1,260) 175 4,234

1,435 (1,117) 318 6,047

2,972 4,926 1,431 12,436 4,924 26,689

(3,489) 4,637 1,506 12,054 1,133 15,841

Note 3: Other payables GST PAYG Superannuation Schools Teams Funds Held on Trust Owing to Clubs

Note 4: Capital and Leasing Commitments Operating lease contracted for but not capitalised in the financial statements is payable as follows; Not later than one year Later than one year but no later than five year

-

-

Note 5: Events After the Statements of Financial Position Date There were no events subsequent to balance sheet date which had a material impact on the financial position as at 31 December 2016 and performance and cash flows for the year ended on that date.

Note 6: Related Party Transactions There was no related party transactions during the year.

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VICTORIAN ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION ABN 85 554 483 914 STATEMENT BY MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

In the opinion of the Board of Management the Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Financial Performance, Statement of Cash Flows and Notes to the Financial Statements: 1. Presents fairly the financial position of Victorian Orienteering Association as at 31 December 2016 and its performance for the year ended on that date in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards, mandatory professional reporting requirements and other authoritative pronouncements of the Australian Accounting Standards Board.

2. At the date of this statement, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the association will be able to pay its debts as and when they fall due.

This statement is made in accordance with a resolution of the Board of Management and is signed for and on behalf of the Board of Management by:

Bruce Arthur President

Ruth Goddard Treasurer Date: 8 May 2017

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OFFICERS FOR 2016 The Board President Vice-President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer

Bruce Arthur Margi Freemantle David Jaffe Carl Dalheim Ruth Goddard

Staff Education Manager and Sports Administrator Media and Publicity Promotion and Development Officer / Administration

Peta Whitford vacant Peta Whitford

Other Officers Chair Bush sub-committee Chair Urban sub-committee Chair MTBO sub-committee Coaching Co-ordinator Junior Squad Co-ordinator Bush Fixtures Park and Street fixtures Sprint fixtures MTBO fixtures Membership Secretary Statistician Rockhopper, State Series Statistics National League Manager Selector Yearbook Editor E-bulletin Editor SI Manager Park & Street Results Website Editors School Team Manager School Team Coach School Team Selection Panel School Assistants School mappers Sporting Schools Instructors  Sporting Schools Mappers Auditor

Mark Hennessy Debbie Dodd, Margi Freemantle Peter Cusworth Jim Russell Nicola Dalheim Laurie Niven, Mark Hennessy Debbie Dodd, Margi Freemantle, Andrew Hunter, Geoff Hudson, John and Jenny Sheahan Debbie Dodd, Margi Freemantle, Ted van Geldermalsen Peter Cusworth Rob Edmonds Kathy Liley Jim Russell Bruce Arthur, Kathryn Preston Ted van Geldermalsen Dion Keech Rebecca Jaffe Ian Dodd Finlay Stuart Debbie Dodd, Ian Dodd, Bruce Arthur, Don Fell, Peter Cusworth Philippa Lohmeyer-Collins Stephen Bird Steve Bird, Peta Whitford Rob Edmonds, Paul Elam, Judi Herkes, Pam, King, Dennis Mews, Carl Stemp.

Ted Van Geldermalsen, Greg Tamblyn, Fredrick Johansson, Casey Berry, Rob Edmonds, Jon Gordon, Carolyn Jackson, Jenny Lawford, Dennis Mews, Emma Morris, Anne Robinson, Helen Slater Neil Barr, Peter Dalwood, Rod Gray, Fredrik Johansson, Pam King, Jim Russell, Greg Tamblyn Ryan Mizael of Factels Accounting

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Orienteering Victoria would like to thank the following sponsors for their support

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