Announcements for OUSA
Team Trials Rules and WOC Team Selection Criteria are now posted for the 2020 Sprint WOC to be held in Denmark in July.
U.S. (and Canadian) Team Trials will take place at the Sage Stomp, (link removed) May 16-18, 2020, in south-central British Columbia, Canada.
Review Period through January 31, 2020
The Youth Development Working Group has completed its initial draft of the Orienteering Development Model (ODM), a long-term athlete development model based on the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s American Development Model.
The framework document is available for community review and comment here (Google Doc). Please provide feedback either through comments in the document, or by emailing vpyouth@nullorienteeringusa.org by January 31, 2020.
We recognize we are not effective graphic designers. If you can do better with either (or both) of our graphics, please do so. The first is embedded in the framework document; the second is available for download here. (Don’t try to open it in Google; it is a PowerPoint file and can only be edited in PowerPoint, although you are also welcome to recreate it in a different file format.) If you have suggestions to share or problems with download, email vpyouth@nullorienteeringusa.org.
Thanks in advance for your input and suggestions!
Tori Campbell
VP, Youth Initiatives
Orienteering USA
Application to the National Team is open to all athletes who meet the requirements of the Athlete Agreement and return a signed copy along with the application. Please note the January 1 deadline for both documents. Documents are linked from the National Team page.
OUSA Member Clubs,
It’s that time of year again when all affiliated Orienteering USA clubs must renew their club charters. This year we are trying something new by offering an online form where you can enter your club’s renewal information. Doing so means you do not need to mail, or scan and email, the traditional paper form. Those options are still available, but the information will still need to be entered in the online form, so we appreciate clubs who choose the online option. The online form asks for an email address. This email will be used to send you a copy of the information submitted on the form. It will also provide a link to use if you need to change any information.
A reminder that clubs should submit their renewal information and payment by February 1, 2020.
Thanks, and have a great 2020!
Questions? Please email contact@nullorienteeringusa.org.
The insurance certificate request forms for the 2020 calendar year are now available in the OUSA Library.
The PDF form for the 2019 calendar year will remain available until December 31.
Applications to be considered for a place on the World University Orienteering Championships Team are being accepted through January 5th.
Automatic spots will be award to the winner of the M-21+ and F-21+ categories of the two-day Classic competition at the Georgia Navigator Cup in mid-January. Other team members will be selected by the committee from petitions.
Find out more about this biennial competition, and learn how selection will take place on the WUOC Team page.
Non-profit Navigation Games (NG), based in Massachusetts, is seeking volunteers to live in the northeast USA and help with our school programs, mid-March to mid-June 2020. Housing will be provided.
We have previously hosted volunteers from Spain, Norway, the Czech Republic, Italy, Sweden and Brazil. With their help, we have built a great program in Cambridge, MA, and are looking to expand it to other school districts.
Check out Violeta’s video about her time living with us!
If you know someone who might be interested, please direct them to this application.
The U.S. Team is looking for a coach to review individual training plans, training logs, be a general source of information on elite orienteering, and help provide a basic communication structure for the team. The position would be as a private contractor with Orienteering USA.
If you are interested in pursuing this possibility, select the PDF document below to see more.
Welcome to the new Orienteering USA website. We hope you like the adjustments.
Please update any links to Orienteering USA website as our site organization has dramatically changed. If you don’t update the link, you will be redirected to the homepage.
Thank you to Bob Forgrave and the many people who made up his focus groups for providing great feedback. Thanks to Dave Yee for selecting and to Dave Yee, Ken Walker Jr., Julie Keim, and others for providing us with great photos. Special thanks to Jennifer Laughlin for server-side backside support which made this all possible.
If you visit the member portal or make a donation, it will still look like the old website for now but still function appropriately. We are working on updating this section of the website. If you do attempt to visit any link on the old navigation, it will redirect you to the new homepage.
Also, keep in mind that this is a dynamic project. It is a living site that can be edited and updated as needed. Please submit any comments, suggestions, corrections, or compliments using the Contact form.
