Category: Events

Vancouver Sprint Camp Event Recap

March 13-15, 2026

The Vancouver Sprint Camp is a fast and furious weekend of sprint racing and training, gathering many of North America’s best orienteers in one place. Many Americans, especially those on the West Coast, make the trip over the border to British Columbia to get a heavy dose head-to-head racing with their Canadian friends and rivals.

This year’s edition included a Sprint WRE and Knockout Sprint WRE, in addition to training sessions.

Organizers: Greater Vancouver Orienteering Club (GVOC)

Event Site

All photos in this post are by Robert Rodriguez.

Results, Maps, and Photos

2026 Nationals Event Recap

March 19-22, 2026

This year’s Sprint, Middle, and Long Championships took place in Maryland in a great variety of terrain that provided orienteers with different challenges each day!

  • Host: Quantico Orienteering Club
  • Venue:
    • University of Maryland (Sprint), College Park, MD (Sprint)
    • Bowie State University, Bowie, MD (Middle)
    • Bacon Ridge Natural Area, Crownsville, MD (Long)
  • Personnel
    • Event Director: Don Fish
    • Registrar and timing: Valerie Meyer
    • Course Designers: Jon Torrance (Sprint), Mihai Sirbu (Middle), Ted Good (Long)

Event website

Results & Maps

Closing Remarks

In a world where it seems like there are many outside pressures and significant disagreement about just about everything, I truly appreciated the positive, joyful vibe of our community coming together this weekend.

The weekend was full of wonderful moments:

  • The smiles on people’s faces as they reconnected with friends from across the country and around the world.
  • The opportunity to hang around together in the arena and enjoy each other’s company.
  • The top-notch competition and event support.
  • The participation of a robust and mutually-supportive group of JWOC- and WUOC-hopeful team trialers.
  • The inspiration of so many sidebars with people taking steps to move our sport forward.

We come from many backgrounds, but our shared love of the sport makes orienteering events truly special. Thank you to QOC for hosting us and to the many volunteers that made this event possible. We appreciate you!

– OUSA President Tori Campbell

Media

All photos in this post are by Jeanette Dunlap.

Online Course Review for 2026 Nationals

As is now tradition, there will be an online course review of select legs from this past weekend’s US Sprint, Middle, and Long Championships this Wednesday evening at 9pm ET. The session will be hosted by Peter Gagarin and Caroline Sandbo, who will use Livelox and their own expertise to discuss different route choices, the difficulties runners faced, and how best to approach some of the legs that gave people trouble. This is worth attending whether or not you competed at Nationals!

Join the meeting on Google Meet at 9pm ET on Wednesday, March 25th.

If you have suggestions for particular legs you’d like to see discussed, please email caroline.sandbo@nullorienteeringusa.org.

Stumble Weekend 2025 Event Recap

November 15-16, 2025

Stumble Weekend 2025 consisted of a Middle National Ranking Event (NRE) and
Susquehanna Stumble XXV. The Stumble is a long distance mass start event with a twist: competitors run between most controls in normal sequential order but occasionally enter a “window” where several controls can be visited in ANY order. 

Results, Maps, and Photos

Photos by Amy Louden, Paige Suhocki, Chrissy Szemere Miller, and possibly others!

Some photos from QOC on their Facebook post

Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics Event Recap

November 15-26, 2025

The US was represented by a team of five athletes at the 2025 Deaflympics, which took place in Tokyo in November, 2025. The five athletes were:

  • Keith Doane, Minnesota Orienteering Club (veteran of the 2023 World Deaf Orienteering Championships in Sweden)
  • Lisa Fisher, Quantico Orienteering Club (first international event)
  • Sachiko Flores, Minnesota Orienteering Club (veteran of the 2023 WDOC)
  • Shanna Sorrells, Quantico Orienteering Club (veteran of the 2023 WDOC)
  • Tom Wells, Quantico Orienteering Club (veteran of the Taipei 2009 Deaflympics and the 2011 (Ukraine), 2015 (Rochester, NY, USA) and 2023 WDOC)

The Deaflympics is a multi-sport event where Deaf athletes can compete at an elite level against athletes from around the world. This past year saw over 3000 athletes participating, with around 60 orienteers from 16 countries competing in the orienteering events.

Orienteering featured six different events: Sprint Distance, Sprint Relay, Super Sprint Relay, Middle Distance, Long Distance and Relay. 

From Tom Wells: “The 2025 event was a great experience for everyone involved, including the grizzled old vet, the sophomores and the wet behind the ears freshman.  We were humbled by the fact that other countries invested time and resources in making sure their new orienteering athletes were successful, including proper coaching and frequent training camps.  The difference was stark.  We held our own the best we could.The Deaflympics have now partnered with the IOF, hence standards were high for this event, including finger and wrist SIAC, updated maps and overall a high-quality operation. An aspect of partnership with IOF will require a points system as a means of qualification for future events.  The jury is still out on the precise details, but it will no longer be a matter of “hey, I think I’m good enough to attend these events”.  For some of us, it was a good run while it lasted, for others it will serve as motivational goals to reach.  Onwards and upwards!”

Results, maps, and media

WCOC Brooksvale Park NRE Event Recap

Oct 26, 2026

Host: Western Connecticut Orienteering Club (WCOC)

Venue: Brooksvale Park, Hamden, CT

Meet Directors: Susan DeWitt and Ellen Morse

Course Setter: Niels Lyng-Olsen

The basemap for this event was created by former OUSA Communications Manager Clinton Morse and field checked by Clinton Morse and J-J Cote.

Results, Maps, and Photos

Photos by Evalin Brautigam and Mike Minium

2025 Nationals Event Recap

October 11-13, 2025

US Orienteers were treated to three days of high-quality orienteering in the Boston area, capped by a delightful city sprint during a nor’easter.

  • Venues:
    • Rocky Woods Reservation (Middle), Medfield, MA
    • Powissett Peak (Long), Dover, MA
    • Boston’s North End (Sprint), Boston, MA
  • Personnel:
    • Event director: Jon Campbell
    • Race directors: Kristin Hall (Sat & Sun), Barb Bryant (Mon)
    • Course Setters: Magnus Bjorkman (Middle), John Nash (Long), Graeme Ackland (Sprint)
    • OUSA Course consultant: Dave Tallent

Event Website

Results

Media

Bitterroot Weekend Event Recap

September 20-21, 2025

Grizzly Orienteering invited orienteers to enjoy some warm fall weather in the Bitterroot Range of Montana. The first day was a middle distance NRE in steep terrain with intricate rock details. The second day provided tremendous contrast to the first, with open forest and broad hillsides.

Host: Grizzly Orienteering (GrizO)

Venues: Soft Rock Recreation Area (Sat) and Larry Creek Recreation (Sun) Area, south of Missoula, MT

Event Director: Emily Johnson

Course Setters: Siri Christopherson (Sat) and Chris Caldwell (Sun)

Results, Maps, and Photos