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Junior International Selections
After dominating their respective classes in the selection races in the JK at Easter, Pippa Dakin and Aidan Smith have both been selected to represent Great Britain this summer.
Pippa performed well in last years World Schools Championships in Portugal and steps up this year to the Euopean Youth Championships in Macedonia in June hoping that the form that took her to clear victories at the JK and the Northern Championships will help her to compete against the best W16's in the world. Pippa, a product of Colin Best's junior training scheme, has only been orienteering for a little over 3 years, and shows what can be achieved with hard work and determination.
Aidan is already a veteran of the international scene and this year's Junior World Orienteering Championships in Bulgaria in July will be his third. His move to Oxford University saw a shift in training to rowing and cross country, adding speed and strength to his natural map reading talents to enable him to take on the best juniors in the world.
There should be live results hopefully with GPS tracking so if you want to follow Pippa and Aidan's progress look out for links from the British Orienteering website.
If you think you've got what it takes to succeed in orienteering and want to know how to progress, come along to one of our training sessions and ask. Not everyone can be a champion but you can have lots of fun trying!
South Yorkshire Juniors win regional round of Yvette Baker Trophy
Sunday 27th April saw a team of 16 SYO juniors travel to the Yorkshire heat of the junior inter-club competition in Harrogate. This marked a massive improvement on last year when we failed to mobilise a full team of 9 counters.
This year we were able to field runners across all 4 courses and there were a number of strong performances. All 9 of our counters placed in the top 3 of their class and the other clubs were unable to compete. The winning margin was 7 points which indicates a reasonably comfortable victory.
This victory qualifies us for the national final which is being held in southern England on 6th July. Unfortunately this clashes with the 2nd stage of the Tour de France which finishes in Sheffield. This once-in-a-lifetime experience was deemed too much of opportunity to miss and hence SYO will not be sending a team to the final this year. Hopefully we can qualify again next year and show our strength in the 2015 Final.
The SYO counters were Pippa Dakin, Joe Owens, Michael Adams, Euan Tryner, Louise Adams, Imogen Clowes, Hamish Mill, Dominic Dakin and Jake Field. The other competing (and reducing the scores of other teams) were Yasmin Field, Joanna Smith, Joe Field, Callum Veitch, Ryan Elliot, Alex Elliot, Sam Hallam and Jack Page.
Interland 2014 29/30 March
SYO was well represented at this year’s Interland with 6 runners all making the journey to northern France. 5 of us made the 3 hour journey down to the rendezvous together on Friday night; Charlie and Louise Adams, Lucy Wiegand, new member Sheila Sprott and of course myself, Michael Adams.
Interland is an annual competition between England and 4 other teams from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands with competitors from M/W14 to M/W60.
Pre JK Training - Wednesday 2nd April
Wednesdays Pre JK training will take place at Sheffield Hallam's Collegiate campus. It will take the form of a short (10-20minute) sprint training followed by some classroom based Pre JK preparation. The Sprint training will start outside the Pearson Building (map here: https://www.shu.ac.uk/university/visit/find-us/plancollegiate.html) at 7.00pm and we will meet there at 7.50pm to walk over to the classroom together. If you wish to come to just one part that is fine.
Kris
Pre JK Training
Tomorrow there will be a Pre JK Training session taking place at Sheffield Hallam's Collegiate campus. The format of the training will be a short sprint training (10-20 minutes) starting from 7.00pm followed by an indoor session looking at preparing for the JK. We will meet at the Pearson building (map here: https://www.shu.ac.uk/university/visit/find-us/plancollegiate.html) for the sprint and will be heading over to a classroom at 7.50pm to begin the indoor session at 8.00pm. If you wish to just come for the indoor session that is fine, meet us at Pearson to head over at 7.50pm. Likewise, if you just want to do some sprint training.
Kris