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Announcements for OUSA

2025 Annual General Meeting (Virtual)

The 2025 Orienteering USA Annual General Meeting will take place online on Thursday, September 11 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

Access the meeting

Online: September 11, 8:00-10:00 pm EDT
Note: Delegates should log in 20-30 minutes early for credentialing.
This will allow the meeting to start ontime.
URL: https://meet.google.com/ohx-eger-yfe
Phone: +1 281-763-7752‬ PIN: ‪451 811 967‬#

Agenda

Link to agenda.

Club Membership Lists

As outlined in the OUSA Bylaws, the number of votes your club’s delegates may cast is based on the number of OUSA members in good standing, designating your club as their primary club, as of July 31, 2025.

All clubs are afforded 1 delegate and 1 alternate. For clubs with more than 25 members, they can choose to have 1 additional delegate and 1 additional alternate for every block of 25 members.

You can find a list of your club members in good standing online here

Please notify the OUSA Office of the names of your delegates and alternates. The delegate appointments should be emailed from a club officer to contact@nullorienteeringusa.org

Delegates and alternates representing your club must be OUSA members, designating your club as their primary club, as of July 31, 2025.

Your club may assign its votes by proxy to another club. The proxy will only be valid if no OUSA-primary member of your club will be present at the AGM. Proxies may not be assigned to a particular member of another club. Email proxy assignments to: contact@nullorienteeringusa.org

Club Proposals

Check your personal memberships

The upcoming AGM presents a good time for all OUSA members to be sure that their information is current in our database. We recommend that you login to our portal and check your profile to be sure that it is accurate. There are known issues in our system that we are still working on. Checking for accuracy is especially recommended if you have family memberships or if you use the auto-renew feature.

Board Candidate Bios

Incumbents

Alaska Orienteering Festival Event Recap

June 25 – July 2, 2025

The Arctic Orienteering Club (AOC) welcomed orienteers to Alaska for several days of orienteering in varied terrain. There were intricate forests, wide open alpine, a SUP ferry, and snow!

The events were a short forest event at Earthquake Park, classic NRE at Willow Creek, a Mountain-O at Craigie Creek (Hatcher Pass), and a Classic at Mirror Lake.

Event Website

Results, Maps, and Photos

Photos from AOC

Results on AOC site

Livelox for Earthquake Park

Livelox for Willow Creek Classics

Livelox Craigie Creek Mountain-O

Livelox for Mirror Lake

JWOC 2025 Recap

June 26-July 3, 2025

Last updated July 4

Team USA was represented by 12 athletes at this year’s Junior Orienteering World Championships, held in Trentino, Italy. Here are photos, maps, and results from this year’s event!

Sprint Relay

The Mixed Sprint Relay is a race between teams of four athletes–two women and two men—in a fast, head-to-head competition with a total winning time of under one hour. In the heat of the afternoon, Team USA athletes pulled off impressive performances, utilizing their speed and wit to race around the streets of Levico Terme. Although blazing temperatures made the race more challenging, the competitors raced hard and smart, enough to earn a promotion in their starting rank for next year’s JWOC, a win against their neighbors (and friendly rivals) to the North – Canada, and gelato for the team. 

Only the top team from each country counts for the official results, and in the case of the US that was USA 2: Paige Suhocki, Ben Cooper, Alex Eriksson, and Danny Buchholz, coming in 32nd.

Official Results
Map/Live tracking: Leg 1 Leg 2 Leg 3 Leg 4

Sprint

With starts throughout the morning, Team USA battled less heat, but more hills and a more technical city sprint on their second day of competition. Still, the juniors kept their brains sharp, navigating well through the cobblestone streets and tunnels of Cembra, and delivered strong performances (and photo finishes) throughout. 

Ben Conley (92nd) and Greta Leonard (125th) posted the top results for Team USA this day.

Official Results
Maps and routes on Livelox

Long

Team USA stared down daunting course statistics (8.0km with 410m climb for F20/10.0km with 500m climb for M20) to carry out super solid races in the woods of Fornace. After finding their way around fields of pits deeper than two Coach Dylans, taking strategic route choices across several impressively long legs, and using their strength to take on hill after hill, the team had a renewed excitement for forest racing … and for their rest day. 

Mori Finlayson-Johnecheck (104th) and Paige Suhocki (111th) clocked in with the fastest time for US athletes today.

Official results
Maps and routes on Livelox

Middle

Team USA took on a new forest for the middle distance race. While the course statistics looked less terrifying, these woods were significantly less forgiving, with blackberry bushes that tore into our athletes and bumpy hillsides that rolled Ian’s ankle (He wisely chose to DNF, but is recovering well!)

The athletes who made it out alive performed solidly, tackling hills, marshes, and an uphill finish chute to all land themselves well under an hour in the woods.

Official results
Maps and routes on Livelox

Forest Relay

With three full teams, and one mixed team with a South African friend/lead leg, Team USA took on the relay, on a similar map to their middle. Now knowing what to avoid (green vertical slash and marshes), our athletes bested even more slopes, the distraction of running with others in the woods, and any navigational challenges thrown their way. 

The team ended the competition cheering on their coaches in the coaches race, reflecting on their accomplishments, and preparing to enjoy themselves a well-deserved banquet!

Official results
Tracks and maps for Men LEG 1 – LEG 2 – LEG 3
Tracks and maps for Women LEG 1 – LEG 2 – LEG 3

June Forum

The June OUSA forum will be all about permits!

OUSA will host a panel discussion of the theory, practice, and recent history of working with land managers to obtain permission to orienteer. Panelists will be Jennifer Castelluccio of COC, Mary Frank of DVOA, and Joseph Huberman of BOK. This is a great chance to hear about some best practices for making sure you can host events (and continue to host events) in your favorite areas.

Join us on Google Meet on Wednesday, June 18th at 8:30pm ET.

Add this event to your Google Calendar.

May OUSA Member Spotlight: Kris Beecroft

This is a transcript of an interview with Kris in May, 2025. It has been edited for clarity and length.

Cristina Luis: Kris, thank you for talking to me and answering my questions. Right off the bat, I know that you have a fun orienteering origin story. 

Kris Beecroft: I do.

Now’s your chance to tell the whole world that story. 

My mom was Norwegian and she wanted one of her children to know what it was like to live in Norway, and they chose me. I don’t know why.

So I went over in June of ‘75 and …

How old were you then?

Was I 12? [mental math] No, I guess I was 13. 

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May Forum: Creating an Online Community for Your Club

The May Forum will be all about how your club can create and foster an online community! Hear from QOC members Sharmagh Yepremian and Kathleen Lennon as they talk about how they use social media in their club, and give tips for how to do it in your own.

Join us on Google Meet on Thursday, May 22nd at 8:30pm ET.

Add to your Google Calendar.

Support Team USA this summer!

This summer Orienteering USA is providing support to 30 National Team and Youth Development Program athletes participating in events in Europe. Some, like Ali Crocker (CROC), are veterans competing for the last time at the World Orienteering Championships. Others, like youngsters Kendal O’Callaghan (RMOC) and Alex Eriksson (ICO), are part of OUSA’s first officially supported team to the European Youth Orienteering Championships. All of our athletes are training hard now and preparing for their summer competitions and training camps, and we’ll keep you updated on all the action.

Here’s a schedule of events featuring Team USA orienteers this summer:

In addition to cheering these athletes on from home, you can also lend a hand financially. Help these athletes reach their summer fundraising goal of $6,000 ($200 per athlete)!

Make a donation by using via OUSA’s donation page (select “4 National Team”) and then share the image above on social media to get others to pitch in!