Published 21st October 2024

It was a fabulous win for SYO yesterday at the 40th Compass Sport Cup final at Holcombe Ranges with all round fabulous performances from the team.

The sunny post race photos hide the horrendous conditions experienced by most runners. Driving rain, clag and precipitous muddy slopes made navigation tricky and the terrain very physical and meant just completing the course was a significant achievement!

Forth Valley Orienteers brought a strong team and put in a stirling effort but some key results swung the overall result in our favour. Particular congratulations to our 5 course winners - Hannah Chapman, Freya Tryner, Nick Barrable, Charlie Adams and Euan Tryner.

Well done also to our other counters: Kim, Cat, Jonny, Sophie, Freddie, Jenny J, Brian, Oli, Pete, Chloe, Andy, Jemma, Martin, Lawrence, Anna, Amanda, Lucy, Ella, Pauline and Joe T.

Dylan Jenkinson retained his golden boot trophy with a run in time of 25 seconds - a fabulous achievement!

Thanks to everyone in SYO who ran - your results all contributed to our win!

Well done to SROC - Red Rose Orienteers for winning the trophy competition. Particular thanks to Pendle Forest Orienteers Page for putting on a great competition and to CompassSport Magazine for providing the prizes!

Published 16th October 2024

Last weekend 9 SYO juniors represented England at the Junior Home Internationals at Sheringham Park in Norfolk.

The weekend began with the individual race, where there were some fabulous results from our juniors:

M14 – 2^nd Maxwell, 5^th Nathan
M16 – 8^th Oscar, 11^th Caspar
W14 – 1^st Hannah
W16 – 3^rd Anna, 4^th Ella, 7^th Charlotte
W18 – 2^nd Freya

Despite England’s best efforts we finished 2^nd, 4 points behind Scotland after the individual.

Post race, the English team headed briefly to the beach in Cromer before returning to the accommodation at Overstrand Hall.  The evening’s entertainment was a fabulous ceilidh, which was well received by the athletes.

Sunday’s relays saw us return to the same arena. Courses were short and racing fast & furious. Maxwell’s team (along with Marcus and Tommy) were involved in an exciting sprint finish with Scotland to take the win; while Oscar’s team (along with Jamie & Dan) took a well earned bronze. Although Scotland won the girl’s relay; the English girls ran strongly to finish 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th! Well done to Anna (along with Bethan & Josie) whose team was 2^nd , Ella (along with Eden & Daisy)whose team was 3^rd and Hannah & Freya (along with Katie), whose team was 4^th. These excellent results meant a win in the relay competition for England and a draw overall on points. Sadly the tiebreak rules award the win to the team with the most first places so this meant Scotland took the overall win. Ireland was 3^rd and Wales 4^th.

A huge thank you to Norfolk and Suffolk Orienteering Clubs for putting on a fabulous competition and to England’s team managers Will and Katherine.

Published 1st October 2024

The Yorkshire & Humberside Squad had a very fabulous weekend at the Junior Inter-regional Competition and came away clutching a host of trophies!

The individual was held at Mallard’s Pike in the Forest of Dean. Competitors reported on a lovely runnable forest but it was very easy to get caught out in the myriad of ditches! All our athletes performed superbly but particular congratulations to our team scorers:

M14 – Maxwell Groom 6^th, Nathan Peel 17^th

M16 – Oscar Peel 1^st, Lawrence Hodgson 6^th

M18 – Ewen Wilkinson (AIRE) 21^st, Evan Jenkinson 23^rd

W14 – Bethan Buckley (AIRE) 1^st, Lucy 3^rd

W16 – Ella Baxter 1^st, Anna Todd 4^th

W18 – Lotte Sykes 7^th, Alice Pieters 8^th (running up)

These results were enough to retain the Individual Runners Up trophy! Bethan also won the outstanding performance award for her 5 minute win on W14!

After the individual competition, we all transferred to the Mendip Activity Centre for overnight camping! Despite the cold, the juniors enjoyed a great night of socialising.

The relays were held in the grounds of the activity centre, which was very convenient and enabled a very early start. YHJS are pretty good at relays and we didn’t disappoint on this occasion, scooping up 3 podium positions. Congratulations to:

Girls – 2^nd Katie Buckley (AIRE), Bethan Buckley (AIRE) & Ella Baxter

            3^rd Anna Todd, Hannah Chapman, Lotte Sykes

Boys – 2^nd Lawrence Hodgson, Maxwell Groom, Oscar Peel

            8^th Robbie Lightfoot, Nathan Peel, James Bryant

A special mention to Will Preston who returned 1^st in the ad-hoc and to Lotte Sykes and Ewen Wilkinson (AIRE) who recorded the fastest times on their legs.

These results meant we picked up the Runners Up trophy in the girls overall competition, the Runners Up trophy in the relay competition and the Runners Up overall trophy! We are very good at being Runners Up! Here’s hoping we can beat the Scots in one of these categories in the Lakes next year……