July Forum: New Version of EventReg

The June Forum will be about upcoming changes to OUSA’s EventReg registration system and will take place on Thursday, July 9th at 8:30 pm ET.

EventReg Administrator Videlin Aleksiev will present on the latest version of OUSA’s registration system, with a demonstration of all new and renewed system features. This includes race, class, and course setup, the custom questions setup, registrations management and new message center functionality. Тhe presentation is intended for event organisers who want to or already use Event Register as a registration system for their events.

Join us on Google Meet on TBD.

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2026 Pacific Northwest Orienteering Festival Event Recap

June 12-21, 2026

Photos by Robert Rodriguez, Amy Winston and John Crowther

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2026 European Youth Orienteering Championships underway!

The 2026 European Youth Orienteering Championships kick off tomorrow, Thursday June 25th, in Slovenia.

The U.S. has nine athletes participating across four age classes (M/W16 and M/W18). Meet them on the US Team Blog!

Start times (in CEST) for the first race, the Sprint, are as follows:

10:08 Alexander Eriksson Men 16
10:34 Samuel Nickolas Sunko Men 18
10:48 Josalyn Dunlap Women 16
11:03 Rose FreedmanRiles Women 18
11:07 Nathan Hinds Men 18
11:10 Allison Coates Women 16
11:29 Sophie Neumann Women 16
11:30 Erik Fey Men 18
11:35 Mark Fey Men 16

The competition continues with a Long race on Friday and a Relay on Saturday. If you’re in the US and like to wake up early you can follow the action on the EYOC livestream! 

Good luck to all our athletes!

2026 WOC Team Selected

The Review Panel has read all the petitions, looked at results, and
deliberated. Here is the team for the Sprint WOC this summer, with their
race assignments.

Men (alphabetical by last name):
.       Joseph Barrett (NMO): Individual, Knock-out,
.       Keegan Harkavy (petition) (NEOC): Individual, Relay
.       Sergei Ryzhkov (DVOA): Knock-out, Relay
.       Ricardo Schaniel (petition) (BUSSOLA): Individual, Knock-out
.       1st alternate: Victor Frolenko (DVOA)
.       2nd alternate: Anthony Riley (petition) (DVOA)

Women (alphabetical by last name):
.       Evalin Brautigam (petition) (WCOC): Individual, Relay
.       Greta Leonard (petition) (COC): Knock-out, Relay
.       Annika Mihata (COC): Individual, Knock-out
.       Ava Suhocki (DVOA): Individual, Knock-out
.       1st alternate: Oriana Riley (petition) (DVOA)

While we had more petitions than usual this year and no automatic
qualifiers, we still saw strong competition at Team Trials. The three sprint
races at Trials were the primary results we evaluated for athletes who
attended. For petitioning athletes, we reviewed Sprint Nationals results
from 2025 and 2026 as well as World Cup performances, with particular
attention to head-to-head comparisons and percent behind metrics relative to
winners and current Team members.

There were some close decisions, as the level of competition among U.S.
athletes continues to rise, but we are confident that this is a strong team
well positioned to perform at WOC.
Congratulations to the Team members and the alternates!

Peggy Dickison, on behalf of the Review Panel (Glen Tryson, Jeff Saeger,
Tyra Christopherson)

June O Forum: Cascade OC’s Winter League

The June O Forum, all about Cascade Orienteering Club’s tremendous Winter League, will take place on Tuesday, June 23rd at 8:30 pm ET on Google Meet.

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you are treated to nine national caliber meets every two weeks for four months, in addition to multiple skill level trainings during Cascade OC’s Winter League/WIOL series.

Winter League has become so popular that COC puts an average of 536 folks with a map in hand through the start tents per meet. They are training an average of 300 people each year at two stand-alone training events, plus more during pre-meet trainings and they see their end of season celebration relay attracting about 100 runners.

Join OUSA’s monthly forum series on June 23rd and hear from Michelle Kastner, who just entered her 9th year as the Winter League Director, to learn how an idea that started in 1982 has become a powerhouse orienteering event series that has put numerous students on OUSA national teams.

This forum will be recorded and available on the OUSA YouTube channel.

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46th Annual Billygoat Event Recap

May 10, 2026

Host: Western Connecticut Orienteering Club (WCOC)

Head Goat: William Hawkins

Meet Director: Ellen Morse

Co-Director: Susie DeWitt

The Billygoat is an annual tradition, a long, hilly, mass start race with with one allowed skip and one fork. Those who finish in under 3.5 hours earn a coveted Billygoat T-shirt.

Photos by Trisha Underwood, Susan DeWitt, Chris Parietti, and Will Hawkins.

Results, Maps, and Photos

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Support the US National Team!

You’ve shared the woods with these athletes.

You’ve stood at the start line together, cheered near the finishes, and reviewed maps after the finish.

Now they’re representing the U.S. overseas, and you can still be part of the journey from home.

This fundraiser t-shirt gives back with a large portion of the proceeds supporting USA Orienteering National Team athletes: JWOC, WUOC, WOC, and EYOC.

Wear it while they race, and let’s show them their community is with them every step of the way!

The order window is short – through Friday, May 15 – so people traveling over to Europe will be able to pack them on their trip!

Order your OUSA fundraiser shirts here

EYOC competition is first on June 25-27 in Slovenia. JWOC athletes compete June 29-July 4 in Sweden. WOC competition is July 7-11 in Italy followed by WUOC on July 28-August 1 in Portugal.

A special shoutout to Enjoy Winter for assisting in getting this fundraiser going. They are the new Noname rep and sponsor of the National Teams and YDP uniforms!

YMP May Map of the Month

The Youth Mapping Program May Map of the Month is William A. Hough High School in Cornelius, NC.

In addition to its use in physical educaton classes and for orienteering activities, teachers at the school hope to use this map for scenario-based learning experiences, such as first aid trainings. “This [map] makes planning for orienteering classes much easier, more realistic, and significantly more fun.”

Are you interested in having a map made of your school, camp, or youth-serving organization? Learn more about the program and apply here.

MNOC 50th Anniversary Weekend

April 25-26, 2026

Organizer: Minnesota Orienteering Club (MNOC)

Saturday: Recreational courses at Lake Elmo Park Reserve, including a Retro-O course that required copying your course onto a black-and-white map, and results hung on a clothesline!

Sunday: Classic NRE courses at Lake Maria State Park.

The Minnesota Orienteering Club celebrated its 50th anniversary in style, with a retro day, an NRE on a new map, cake, and lots of shared memories.

All photos by Bridget Hall.

Results, Maps, and Photos

Be sure to check out the collection of old photos and videos documenting the club’s history!