Junior News
AIRE 50th Anniversary Event
A good number of SYO juniors travelled up to Ilkley at the weekend to take part in a special 50th anniversary event, which included orienteering on the 60s, 70s & 80s O-maps from back in the day!
The event offered the opportunity to try out orienteering as it used to be in the 'good old days' - try out pin punching, hunt for large fabric 2D kites, copying your course onto maps from throughout the decades, and even the old results washing line system! This had been the stuff of legend up till now for us juniors!
Thanks to AIRE for a great event (and the map!)
?: James Garnett
Yorkshire Superleague Prize Winners!
Congratulations to the juniors have managed to podium in the 2018 Yorkshire Superleague! The Yorkshire Superleague is the primary orienteering league for the YHOA region, based on performance in the best events held each year. This is run in addition to the more specialist YHOA Urban and YHOA Night Leagues.
In the Junior categories we have done especially well, with the vast majority of SYO's podium places in the league coming from the juniors:
M10 1st Joseph, 2nd Freddie & 3rd Robbie
M12 2nd Conrad, 3rd John
M14 1st Euan, 2nd Sam C, 3rd Jamie & Max
M16 3rd Sam D
M18 1st Ryan, 3rd Dom
W10 1st Anna, 2nd Charlotte, 3rd Alice
W12 1st Freya, 2nd Alexandra, 3rd Isabelle G
W14 1st Alex, 3rd Imogen
W16 2nd Isabelle H
Find out more about this years' league on the YHOA website. You don't need to enter in advance - just turn up and run at Regional events in Yorkshire (see the 2019 listing for which ones). And don't worry if you can't make all the dates - it's just your best 5 results that count (out of 9 this year).
The first event of the 2019 League is a couple of weeks' time, at Royds Hall (EPOC), where the 2018 prizegiving will take place!
View the Final league table, and the League Winners listings for 2018
English Cross Country selection
2 SYO juniors have been selected to be in the South Yorkshire team for the English Schools Cross Country Championships, to be held in March at Temple Newsam, Leeds.
Euan and Dom have both been selected after competing in the Sheffield XC league over winter.
Along with other SYO juniors, they find that it's a great way to improve their running, and gives them the opportunity to ditch the map every now and again!
The primary and secondary leagues start again next year in the winter term. Races are organised into year group categories, and get gradually longer for each category, so they're about the same length as to what you'd run at orienteering - so a great way to train, and for free!
For other ideas on how to train, have a look in the 'Training' section of Other Useful Stuff.
If you haven't had a go already, why not give it a go in Autumn 2019?
New 'Get up to Speed' Videos - filmed here!
A new video on Setting (Orientating) your Map was released recently, featuring GB Orienteer Charlotte Ward. This will be one of a series of 8 videos explaining the basic skills of Orienteering, presented by GB athletes.
But this one may be of particular interest to SYO members, as it was filmed on one of our areas - can you see which one?
View it on Youtube here. The whole series will be published on the South London Orienteers' Youtube Channel
Find out more about the series on the GB Athletes' webpage On the Red Line
The Junior Captain's Speech
With us nearing the end of another year of orienteering, we thought it would be nice to look back at the successes this year has brought for the SYO Juniors.
Here's a message from not quite the real Queen, but our 'Queen Bee', Jacky (SYO Junior Team Captain)...