Announcements Archives - Orienteering USA

Team USA to Compete in World Trail Orienteering Championships 2022

Orienteering USA is pleased to announce the team competing in World Trail Orienteering Championships in Jelenia Gora, Poland, July 19th-23rd. The team is a mixture of youth and experience. The most experienced members of the team are David Irving (SDO), Sharon Crawford (RMOC), and Clare Durand (LAOC), whereas the newest team member, junior Jarmo Latva-Kokko (Age 16 from NEOC) is participating in his very first WTOC.

David is likely our biggest hope for strong placement in the paralympic category, but Jarmo is looking to turn some heads especially in the timed Temp-O event. He is already ranked 4th in the US in Temp-O and his performance in the Philadelphia training camp this May was impressive. Clare and Sharon bring lots of WTOC experience to the team and are hoping to improve on their personal best. Bob and Karen have less experience in competing in WTOC, but have done well in recent US ranking events. The team is looking to improve from past WTOC performances. Three of the selected team members were unable to go to Poland this year, but hopefully will participate in future.

Selected team:

Open:

Clare Durand (LAOC)
Sharon Crawford (RMOC)
Karen Dennis (SDO)
Bob Cooley (BAOC)
Jarmo Latva-Kokko (NEOC) Junior

Paralympic:

David Irving (SDO)
Daniel Heimgartner (CRNA) unable to attend
Lee Kuxhaus (CRNA) unable to attend
Julius Schram (CRNA) unable to attend

Nikolay Nachev to represent TeamUSA at World MTBO Championships

The 2022 World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships are just one of many international orienteering events going on this month and because OUSA’s Mountain Bike team is rather dormant right now, it might be easy to overlook these championships. But fear not mountain bike fans, TeamUSA will be represented in Falun, Sweden from July 15-20.

Orienteering USA is pleased to announce that Nikolay Nachev from the Cascade Orienteering Club in Seattle will represent TeamUSA at this years WMTBOC. Nikolay has been orienteering since childhood and his favorite orienteering disciplines are night-o, urban sprints and MTBO. Growing up he was on the Junior and University National teams in Bulgaria and has competed for TeamUSA in both Foot Orienteering and Ski Orienteering. Nikolay and his partner Ashley Blake were also the overall winners at the North American Rogaining Championships in Lake Tahoe last August. This will be Nikolay’s first MTBO World Championships though he did race interationally at last fall’s World Cup MTBO races in Abrantes, Portugal.

Bikes have been close to heart for Nikolay since his move from Washington DC to Miami and helped him cope with the lack of orienteering in the Everglades. Since then, he has been part of a competitive road bike racing scene in the Pacific NW racing for Hagens-Berman and Avanti teams of Seattle. He has placed second at STP (the largest cycling event in the Northwest) a 200 mile ride from Seattle to Portland, and has completed multiple Ironman triathlons.

Nikolay keeps his MTBO skills sharp by competing in adventure races and by doing the local Street Scramble score-o series on his bike. We look forward to seeing what Nikolay can do in Sweden in a couple of weeks.

https://youtu.be/4jU9fGUgEpE

JWOC ’22 Portugal Event Recap

July 10-16, 2022

Team Announcement
- Alexis Merka
- Anna Campbell
- Bridget Hall
- Kirsten Mayland
- Lily Addicott
- Zoe Sibthorp
- Benjamin Brady
- Holden Sopoti
- Keegan Harkavy
- Victor Frolenko
Official Website
- Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Event Coverage at IOF Live

July 4-9, 2022 – Pre-JWOC Activity

Jul 3 – Travel / Sightseeing Progress – Seattle Contingent (19 photos ) – Junior Team Facebook
Jul 4 – Double Training Day (23 photos) – Junior Team Facebook
Jul 5 – T-6 Days – Long Training (42 photos) – Junior Team Facebook
Jul 7 – Fourth Day of Training (28 photos) – Relays, Middle & Gelato – Junior Team Facebook
Jul 7 – Aguiar Antics – Training recap, athlete insights, MAPS! & photos – TeamUSA Blog
Jul 8 – JWOC Training Reel – from Sherri Brady’s Instagram feed
Jul 8 – Forest Races Cancelled – Junior Team Facebook
Jul 9 – Sharp Looking Sprinters – Orienteering USA Facebook & Instagram

Sun July 10, 2022 – Opening Ceremony

Team Photo & Official Athlete Photos – Junior Team Facebook
Sprint Relay medal event added – Junior Team Facebook
- TeamUSA will field 2 medal eligible teams – 2 Women/2 Men – teams tba
- 2 TeamUSA women will tentatively run on an unofficial team with South Africa
- Rumors of a possible non-championship 3-person sprint relay later in the week.

Mon July 11, 2022 – Sprint @ Carapito

Sprint Recap (32 photos incl maps) – Junior Team Facebook
Random Photo Drop – Sprint (7 photos) – Orienteering USA Facebook
- {Some of these photos also in the Sprint Recap collection}
Highlight Video – Good shot of Bridget at about 1:18 – Junior Team Facebook
Official Results, Maps, Split Analysis – from JWOC ’22 Live Center

Tue July 12, 2022 – Long @ Carapito

Forest Race(s) cancelled due to high heat & fire risk.
More photos from Opening Ceremony & Sprint (11 photos) – Junior Team Facebook
The Forests are Burning and we are Sprinting – TeamUSA Blog
Sprint Relay Teams Announced – Junior Team Facebook & Instagram

Wed July 13, 2022 – Sprint Relay

Preliminary thoughts & updates (15 photos) – Junior Team Faceboook
Sprint Relay Photos from Evalin (lotsa photos) – EvalinMae Photography Smugmug
A few photos (4 photos) – Barb Bryant Facebook

Thu July 14, 2022 – Middle Qual @ Quinta das Lameiras

Sprint Relay Photos (54 photos) – mix of JWOC & Evalin images – Junior Team Facebook

Fri July 15, 2022 – Middle Final @ Quinta das Lameiras

Forest Race(s) cancelled due to high heat & fire risk.

Sat July 16, 2022 – Relay @ Quinta das Lameiras

Content to be added as it becomes available
This race currently beyond the current forest ban – status is currently up in the air….

WOC ’22 Denmark Event Recap

July 26-30, 2022

Team Announcement
- Joe Barrett – QOC
- Sergei Ryzhkov – DVOA
- Ricardo Schaniel – Bussola OK
- Tori Borish – RMOC
- Evalin Brautigam – WCOC
- Alison Campbell – DVOA
- Thomas Laraia (Team Official) – MNOC
Event Website
- Facebook
Event Coverage at IOF Live

Under Construction: Additional content to be added as it becomes available

Sun July 26, 2022 – Sprint Relay @ Kolding

Placing: 22nd of 33 teams (7 DSQ)
Map(s): Womens / Mens
Photos – coming soon

Leg 1	Tori Borish (24th)	17:44 (+3:10)
Leg 2	Ricardo Schaniel (25th)	17:38 (+2:45)
Leg 3	Joseph Barrett (27th)	18:01 (+4:00)
Leg 4	Evalin Brautigam (25th)	18:38 (+4:40)

Place & time diff are per leg, not cumulative

Tue July 28, 2022 – Knock Out Sprint @ Fredericia

Women Qual A	Alison Campbell (27th)	12:21 (+2:40)
Women Qual B	Tori Borish (25th)	12:02 (+1:59)
Women Qual C	Evalin Brautigam (23rd)	12:17 (+2:08)
Men Qual A	Sergei Rhzhkov (25th)	10:55 (+1:13)
Men Qual B	Joe Barrett (29th)	11:40 (+1:44)
Men Qual C	Ricardo Schaniel (26th)	11:25 (+1:20)

No TeamUSA Runners advanced to Quarter-Finals

Thu July 30, 2022 – Sprint @ Vejle

Maps – coming soon
Photos – coming soon

Women Qual A	Alison Campbell (27th)	16:00 (+4:04)
Women Qual B	Tori Borish (24th)	15:09 (+3:03)
Women Qual C	Evalin Brautigam (18th)	14:26 (+1:50)
Men Qual A	Ricardo Schaniel (27th)	13:57 (+2:19)
Men Qual B	Sergei Rhyhkov (28th)	14:37 (+2:09)
Men Qual C	Joe Barrett (24th)	13:51 (+1:49)

No Team USA Runners qualified for Finals

Virtual AGM – 2022

The 2022 Orienteering USA Annual General Meeting will take place online on Thursday, September 29 from 8:00 to 10:00 pm (EDT) via Google Meet.

Your membership in Orienteering USA helps us to bring programs and services to orienteers and clubs throughout the country. Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Clare Durand
President, Orienteering USA

NOTE: Information pertaining to accessing the 2022 AGM will be added to this page as details become available.

Open Board Seats

Four of the current 12 Board seats are up for (re)election in 2022. If you are interested in running for a seat on the board, please contact Jon Torrance (jon.torrance@nullorienteeringusa.org)

Agenda

Agenda is currently under construction and will be posted here when available

TeamUSA Welcomes Newest Members

The Executive Steering Committee is pleased to announce the promotion of four athletes to the US National Team bringing the TeamUSA roster to 36 athletes for 2022.

Sergei will be competing in Denmark next month as part of our 6-person team at the 2022 Sprint World Orienteering Championships (WOC). In July, Anna & Holden will be part of our 10-person roster competing at the 2022 Junior World Championships (JWOC) in Portugal and Tyler joins our 12-person squad heading to Switzerland for the biennial 2022 World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) in mid August.

We’re looking forward to a great summer of international racing with full teams traveling to all the major competitions, including the The World Games right here in the US. Congratulations to all the athletes on the 2022 TeamUSA Roster!!

Be sure to visit the National Team page on the website for details on all 2022 team members and the international events they have been selected for this year. Historical info on previous years teams can be found in the OUSA Library. Thanks to all the volunteers on the Executive Steering Committee and the various team selection committees for their efforts in putting together such a great roster of athletes to represent us!

OUSA Welcomes SkyPilots

Orienteering USA is pleased to welcome its newest chartered club, Sky Pilots Endurance Navigators, to its ranks. Sky Pilots is a multi-disciplinary club focusing on orienteering, mountaineering and endurance events – often with unusual event formats. They are located in western Colorado.

The club’s founders Eric Robinson and Ginny LaForme are ultrarunners and former North American rogaining age group champions. They met in Colorado’s San Juan mountains. In a rather strange coincidence, each discovered that the other had for years been hosting an informal run called Las Trampas, unknown to each other and in two different states. In 2004, they married, and in 2018, they moved to Ouray, Colorado and have been busy exploring and mapping the surrounding public lands ever since.

This past weekend the club hosted a ‘Backyard Ultra‘ in which competitors run a 4.167 mile course in beautiful Ouray, CO. Sounds easy enough, right? Well every hour, on the hour, athletes must line up and do it again until only one person remains to start the hourly lap (aka ‘yards’) and complete it. This year’s winner toughed out 35 yards for a total of 145.95 miles. Yowsa!

Perhaps running the same 4.167 loop every hour isn’t your cup of tea? Well coming up on June 4th the Sky Pilots will present the Lost One Standing, a unique mashup of Backyard Ultra with orienteering and rogaining. This 24 hour event, starting at 9am Saturday, will feature 24 different courses on 1:7500 maps with at least 6 each at beginner, intermediate and advanced difficulty levels.

At the beginning of each hour, select, start and complete one of the courses (1-6 controls per course) – you can only do each course once so choose wisely. Mass start at the top of each hour and you must complete the course within 60 minutes to remain in the primary competition. If you can’t get around the course in under an hour (or can’t get back to the start line for the next hour), you will drop down to the secondary competition in which you can continue to participate, but no longer constrained by the one hour limit. Starts in the secondary competition are every half hour, but you can take as long as needed to complete your course, rest between courses etc.

Western Colorado has some amazingly scenic terrain so be sure to check out their webpage for event information and to ogle the gorgeous scenery. You can also join their active public group on Facebook or follow them on Strava.

**Eric approaching treeline above Ironton**
*All photos in this post courtesy of Sky Pilots Endurance Navigation*

2022 WUOC Team Announced

The selection committee for the World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) is pleased to announce the 2022 team for this biennial competition. The committee members are Linda Kohn, Peggy Dickison, Will Enger and Jeff Saeger.

The competition will be held in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland from August 16-21, 2022 and is open to athletes between ages 18 & 25 that are currently registered in a degree/diploma granting program of study at a recognized institution of higher learning or having earned said degree within the prior 12 month period.

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been selected to represent TeamUSA at this year’s World University Orienteering Championships!!

Men
- Keegan Harkavy
- Thomas Laraia
- AJ Riley
- Danny Riley
- Tyler Wilson
- Peter Zakrevski
- Edgardo Cruz (1st alternate)

Women
- Diana Aleksieva
- Jessica Colleran
- Julia Doubson
- Bridget Hall
- Kirsten Mayland
- Oriana Riley
- Grace Zoppi (1st alternate)

2022 WOC Team Announced

The WOC Selection Committee (Jeff Saeger, Glen Tryson & Peggy Dickison) is pleased to announce the US Team for this year’s World Orienteering Championships in Denmark. This years championships, to be held June 26-30, will be the first WOC to focus exclusively on the sprint discipline (aka Sprint WOC). Future WOC’s will alternate between Forest WOC & Sprint WOC formats.

The first event will be a Sprint Relay in the town of Kolding which includes an old town area with asymmetrical street patterns including the castle Koldinghus dating from around 1200 that rises about 20m above the town.

Image: Hubertus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The second event will consist of qualifying and final rounds of a Knock-Out Sprint in and around the military fortifications of Fredericia, characterized by hilly ramparts now covered by grass and forest. Within the fortifications lies the town proper with a symmetrical road network divided into quadrants.

Image: CC BY-SA 1.0 via WikiTravel

The final events of the championship will be the Individual Sprint qualification and final races in the Danish town of Vejle including a complex old town area with shopping streets, backyards and narrow alleyways. Modern residential areas with public buildings and schools are also present. To the north lies a steep 90m slope with deep ravines and partly vegetated with deciduous forest areas. To the south lies a flat area cut by multiple railways and two water courses passable by bridges and, in some cases, tunnels.

Privat fotograf, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Because the sprint relay team consists of 2 men + 2 women, TeamUSA will be sending three men and three women to this year’s competition. Congratulations to the following athletes selected to represent the US at this years Sprint WOC:

Men
- Joe Barrett – QOC
- Sergei Ryzhkov – DVOA
- Ricardo Schaniel – Bussola OK
- Eric Bone – COC (alternate)

Women
- Tori Borish – RMOC
- Evalin Brautigam – WCOC
- Alison Campbell – DVOA
- Oriana Riley – DVOA (alternate)

Because the relay is the first event, it has been pre-determined that Joe Barrett, Ricardo Schaniel, Tori Borish, and Evalin Brautigam will run the relay, running order to be determined.

There will also be a WOC Tour held concurrently with 3 Sprint races held on the same terrains the WOC competitors will face plus 3 Forest Middle distance races for spectators to enjoy. Come to Denmark and cheer on TeamUSA and get a solid week of races in for yourself as well!

2022 JWOC Team Announced

The JWOC Selection Committee (Tori Borish, Greg Ahlswede and Jon Torrance) is pleased to announce the 2022 US Team selected to compete at the Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) to be held July 10-16 in Aguiar da Beira, Portugal.

Women:
Alexis Merka
Anna Campbell
Bridget Hall
Kirsten Mayland
Lily Addicott
Zoe Sibthorp
Annika Mihata (1st alternate)
Oriana Riley (2nd alternate)

Men:
Benjamin Brady
Holden Sopoti
Keegan Harkavy
Victor Frolenko

National Team member Evalin Brautigam, Head Coach & Teacher at Orienteering South Australia, will accompany the team to Portugal in the role of head coach.

Congratulations to all our 2022 JWOC athletes!