Category: Orienteering

On Wednesday 13th September, Eden Park and Counties Manukau Orienteering delivered the first ever urban adventure race through our National Stadium. Known as Orienteering Sprint Racing, students sped about the stadium using a map to navigate their path from checkpoint to checkpoint (called “controls”) around a predefined course. Orienteering is a recreational activity for everyone! It doesn’t matter how fit you are – you can get outside for some physical and brain exercise as you navigate about a course at whatever speed you enjoy. We get access to some amazing…

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Orienteering Rogaine Championships 2023 Four hundred students took part in the Auckland Secondary Schools Rogaine Championships at Humphries Farm, near Waimauku recently.  The map, named Stoneybrook, is a very hilly course with many spur gully complexities that highly rewarded the students that meticulously planned their routes to avoid unnecessary climbing.  The event was extremely waterlogged and the overnight rain proved it to be a challenging affair with many mud-strewn children returning. The Rogaine event is where students have 90 minutes to collect as many controls as they can and return…

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The Rogaine Orienteering Championships organized by the North West Orienteering Club and Lactic Turkey Events were held at Riverhead Forest with over two hundred students in attendance. Please find the full results here.

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College Sport Media: For many years, Napier Boys’ High School was the stronghold of New Zealand secondary school orienteering. Napier BHS won the NZSS Orienteering Top Boys School title 14 years in a row, one of the most impressive winning streaks of any school in any sport at the national level. Last year the sky blue of Napier was replaced by a different shade of blue when Mount Albert Grammar School captured the title for the first time. Last weekend, MAGS successfully defended their title in style at Woodhill Forest…

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The World Schools Orienteering Championships will be held in Otepää, Estonia from 24 April to 5 May 2019. The school teams selected by Orienteering New Zealand are: Diocesan School for Girls – W1 girls school team (16-18 years) Mt Albert Grammar School – M1 boys school team (16-18 years) St Cuthbert’s College – W2 girls school team (14-15 years) Mt Albert Grammar School – M2 boys school team (14-15 years)

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The Mt Albert Grammar School Boys Orienteering team pulled off a major coup by winning the National Secondary Schools title in Christchurch at the weekend. A string of impressive results by the 18-strong team of boys wrested the trophy from Napier Boys High School, who had won it the previous 14 years in a row. They beat Napier BHS by 59pts (432pts vs 373pts) with 15 of the team scoring points. In the relays, the Junior Boys (Sam Taylor Sinclair, Daniel Wood, Tom Aish) came first by over four minutes.…

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Waikato Times: Three year 9 girls are turing heads in the orienteering world, after they came away from the North Island Secondary Schools Orienteering Championships with an award. Despite limited orienteering experience, Waiuku College’s Millie Thompson, Charlize Aicken and Beanie Rattrie came away with the small school section from the event, where the three girls’ aggregate score topped the leaderboard for the category. Millie also placed second in the long course event. Sports co-ordinator Judith Coe said it was a great achievement. “To win that was pretty special. “To have that team of three…

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The Post: If running 60 to 80kms per week, and traipsing up and down hills as part of your weekly training regime sounds like hard work, you’re not Kurtis Shuker. The 18 year old Waiuku College student has been selected to represent New Zealand as part of a four strong team, competing for the Southern Cross Trophy at the upcoming 2017 Australian Schools’ Orienteering Championships, and he will be training hard to ensure he’s at his best. The Australian event will be held later this month in Bathurst, New South…

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