Results: Day 1
Maps: White | Yellow | Orange | BrownX | BrownY | GreenX | GreenY | RedX | RedY | Blue
Results: Day 2
Maps: White | Yellow | Orange | BrownX | BrownY | GreenX | GreenY | RedX | RedY | Blue
The title of New England Champion was awarded to the top finisher in each age group whose primary orienteering club is located in New England – UNO, NEOC, CSU, NG, WCOC, GMOC.
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| Men – Map | 71st – Anthony Riley | 18:21 (+2:42) |
| Men – Map | 119th – Benjamin Brady | 22:09 (+6:30) |
| Men – Map | 123rd – David Runde | 22:31 (+6:52) |
| Women – Map | 111th – Jessica Colleran | 24:16 (+9:19) |
| Women – Map | 112th – Diana Aleksieva | 24:28 (+9:31) |
| Men A – Map | 31st – Anthony Riley | 27:27 (+6:59) |
| Men B – Map | 36th – David Runde | 26:57 (+6:22) |
| Men C – Map | 40th – Benjamin Brady | 32:32 (+12:00) |
| Women B – Map | 36th – Jessica Colleran | 31:11 (+11:39) |
| Women C – Map | 36th – Diana Aleksieva | 36:25 (+17:01) |
| Men’s B Final – Map | 37th – David Runde | 30:40 (+6:44) |
| Men’s B Final | 55th – Benjamin Brady | 42:11 (+18:15) |
| Men’s B Final | Anthony Riley | MSP |
| Women’s B Final – Map | 38th – Jessica Colleran | 47:51 (+19:56) |
| Women’s B Final | 40th – Diana Aleksieva | 49:03 (+21:08) |
| Men Long – Map | 68th – Anthony Riley | 1:25:26 (+16:29) |
| Men Long | 111th – David Runde | 1:43:36 (+34:39) |
| Men Long | 122nd – Benjamin Brady | 1:58:22 (+49:25) |
| Women Long – Map | 101st – Diana Aleksieva | 1:30:21 (+37:22) |
| Women Long | 104th – Jessica Colleran | 1:36:23 (+43:24) |
Note: Diana & Jessica ran on a mixed team with Kristina Pashchenko from Ukraine. Because this was an ‘unofficial’ team, their results were not published in the official JWOC results.
| Place | Name | Leg Time | Leg Place | Total Time | Team Place | Time Diff |
| 34 | United States Mens 1 – Map | 2:34:19 | +50:05 | |||
| 1. Anthony Riley | 42:20 | 33 | 42:20 | 33 | ||
| 2. Benjamin Brady | 1:00:24 | 41 | 1:42:44 | 38 | ||
| 3. David Runde | 51:35 | 33 | 2:34:19 | 34 | +50:05 |
The following information was posted on the BAOC website on April 24, 2021:
“The difficult decision to move the California Orienteering Festival (CalOFest) to 2023 was made in the interests of safety and fairness due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and international travel restrictions. The decision was made jointly with the International Orienteering Federation, International Rogaining Federation, Orienteering Canada, and Orienteering USA—along with our partners and landowners. This change affects the North American Orienteering Championships as well as the World Rogaining Championships. The delayed Festival will be held in San Francisco and Tahoe locations during summer 2023, with dates pending IOF and IRF approvals. (The complete announcement of the change is here.)”
Instead of hosting CalOFest this year, the Bay Area Orienteering Club hosted Tahoe 2021:
Day 1 of the Orienteering USA Nationals took place on Friday morning on the campus of Sierra College in Rocklin, CA under warm, but thankfully overcast skies. This event was moved to Sierra College to preserve the Northstar Resort sprint venue for CalOFest/NAOC Sprint in 2023.
Photos: Nadim Ahmed, Clinton Morse
Day 2 was to be contested at Little Truckee Summit (adjacent to the original CalOFest terrain) where the air quality was, well, horrible. Due to the Dixie Fire to the northwest, the entire area was blanketed in a thick smoke plume with an AQI in excess of 500 on Friday afternoon, over 3 times the level considered unhealthy for strenuous activity. Organizers announced that a decision to hold the race would be made at 7am Saturday AM.
At 7am the word came that the race was cancelled due to poor air quality, but that the forecast hinted that things might improve for the afternoon and thus another decision would be made around noon. At noon the notification came that the Middle Distance race would be held, starting at 2:30pm. Air quality was still hazardous, but better than the morning conditions and competitors were urged to make their own decision to compete or not. Mid afternoon starts meant that conditions were also quite a bit warmer than morning races would have been.
Conditions were still smoky, but most competitors chose to race, some with masks, most without. Everyone seemed to roll with it…
Photos: Clinton Morse
Day 3 of the OUSA Nationals was met with another air quality delay, but this one was only 90 minutes so the Long Distance races got started late morning on another warm day. Similarly to Saturday, the competition was held on unused portions of the Sagehen map originally slated for CalOFest. As an “experimental forest”, there was a variety of forest type and undergrowth/debris to deal with. Presumably the best parts of both the Saturday and Sunday venues will be unveiled at the North American Championships in 2023 at CalOFest and that Tahoe 2021 was just a taste of things to come.
Photos: Peter Laraia, Clinton Morse
Monday’s Club Championship Relay was held at Burton Creek State Park in Tahoe City, CA and competitors were met with much clearer skies than the previous two days of racing. But the day was not with out it’s own set of complications – a local football team was practicing on the field that was designated as the relay arena and paving contractors decided Monday would be a good day to paint new stripes on the high school parking lots, forcing a last minute relocation of parking to surrounding neighborhood streets.
Competitors, quite used to delays at this point in the weekend, took it in stride during the roughly 90 minute delay required to iron out the kinks and get everything ready. The time was put to good use however, as teams socialized and an impromptu awards ceremony was held to hand out Sunday’s Long Distance awards. Although the format for assembling relay teams and determining club championships was a bit convoluted, everyone seemed to have a good time with head to head racing and cheering on their teammates in the arena area. Be sure to check out the YouTube video (link after the photos) if you haven’t already.
Photos: Nadim Ahmed, Peter Laraia, Clinton Morse
Media is posted in a separate entry.
The Annual General Meeting of Orienteering USA will be held online Thursday night, October 21. One of the highlights of the AGM is the naming of the recipient of the Silva Award.
The Silva Award is given annually to an orienteer who has demonstrated outstanding service to orienteering in the United States over the past five years. The essential quality of every winner has been service to promoting and sustaining orienteering, to making the sport work in this country, and in helping to build the organizations needed to make orienteering successful.
The AGM will also include the announcement of the OUSA Golden Service awards recognizing those individuals who have provided exceptional service to the sport of orienteering that extends beyond the local club level.
Nominations for both awards are being solicited between now and September 26th. Full eligibility criteria and lists of past award winners can be found in the attached announcements. Nominations for both awards should be emailed to Susan DeWitt (skdewitt@nullsnet.net) by September 26th.
Full Silva Award Announcement: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-GdPkOS3ceKGSHvzdcgO9mIAG_-dN61D/view?usp=sharing
Full Golden Service Award Announcement: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jcHCxcTeknuD4A7nhzAgNRnpaop6kvc8/view?usp=sharing
Just rolled back home after almost 4 weeks on the road – Deschutes Daze in Oregon, OUSA Nationals in Lake Tahoe and the 2021 North American Rogaining Championships, also in Lake Tahoe, CA. It occured to me on the long drive home that it’s been a while since I posted a Puzzle Friday. So here’s a quickie from the rogaine while I sort through thousands of photos and video and make sense of things.
It was great to meet so many of you in my travels these past few weeks. Look forward to catching up with you at future orienteering events. Here is this week’s puzzle.
Congratulations to the automatic qualifiers for the WOC Team going to the Czech Republic later this year. The remainder of the Team will be determined after the Czech selection races next month. Previous US WOC Teams can be viewed in the OUSA Library.
Automatic Qualifiers:
Winners of the Sprint:
– Anthony Riley
– Angelica Riley
Winners of the Middle +Long (normalized)
– Joseph Barrett
– Sydney Fisher
| Sprint Blue | 4.14km | 22C |
| Place | Name | Club | Time |
| 1 | Anthony Riley | DVOA | 17:52 |
| 2 | Michael Laraia | MNOC | 18:37 |
| 3 | Will Enger | COC | 19:13 |
| 4 | Sergei Ryzhkov | DVOA | 19:14 |
| 5 | Eric Bone | COC | 20:11 |
| 6 | William Hawkins | WCOC | 20:31 |
| 7 | Danny Riley | CAOC | 21:22 |
| 8 | Wyatt Riley | DVOA | 21:38 |
| 9 | Greg Ahlswede | DVOA | 21:48 |
| 10 | Joseph Barrett | QOC | 21:55 |
| 11 | Gheorghe Fala | BOK | 25:11 |
| 12 | Patrick Shannon | DVOA | 26:28 |
| Sprint Red | 3.4km, 60m | 19C |
| Place | Name | Club | Time |
| 1 | Angelica Riley | DVOA | 25:36 |
| 2 | Diana Aleksieva | QOC | 25:54 |
| 3 | Alexis Merka | QOC | 29:45 |
| Middle Blue | 6.0 km 55 m | 13 C |
| Place | Name | Club | Time |
| 1 | Eric Bone | COC | 37:44 |
| 2 | Joseph Barrett | QOC | 39:32 |
| 3 | Sergei Ryzhkov | DVOA | 44:31 |
| 4 | Anthony Riley | DVOA | 47:08 |
| 5 | Boris Granovskiy | GRIZO | 47:51 |
| 6 | Greg Ahlswede | DVOA | 50:11 |
| 7 | Gheorghe Fala | BOK | 53:00 |
| 8 | Wyatt Riley | DVOA | 53:27 |
| 9 | Danny Riley | CAOC | 55:09 |
| 10 | William Hawkins | WCOC | 56:09 |
| 11 | Michael Laraia | MNOC | 1:05:28 |
| 12 | Will Enger | COC | 1:06:10 |
| 13 | Patrick Shannon | DVOA | 1:07:52 |
| Middle Red | 5.3 km 55 m | 13 C |
| Place | Name | Club | Time |
| 1 | Sydney Fisher | QOC | 53:27 |
| 2 | Angelica Riley | DVOA | 57:47 |
| 3 | Alexis Merka | QOC | 1:16:32 |
| Long Blue (Men) | 11.4 km 410 m | 23 C |
| Place | Name | Club | Time |
| 1 | Barrett, Joseph | QOC | 1:17:59 |
| 2 | Ahlswede, Greg | DVOA | 1:19:29 |
| 3 | Riley, Anthony | DVOA | 1:20:39 |
| 4 | Enger, Will | COC | 1:24:19 |
| 5 | Bone, Eric | COC | 1:25:06 |
| 6 | Laraia, Michael | MNOC | 1:26:33 |
| 7 | Hawkins, William | WCOC | 1:31:18 |
| 8 | Granovskiy, Boris | GRIZO | 1:35:18 |
| 9 | Riley, Danny | CAOC | 1:36:06 |
| 10 | Riley, Wyatt | DVOA | 1:42:48 |
| Shannon, Patrick | DVOA | dnf |
| Regular Blue (Women) | 9.7 km 355 m | 20 C |
| Place | Name | Club | Time |
| 1 | Fisher, Sydney | QOC | 1:47:32 |
| 2 | Riley, Angelica | DVOA | 2:05:51 |
| 3 | Aleksieva, Diana | QOC | 2:16:10 |
| 4 | Merka, Alexis | QOC | 2:27:53 |
Photo Credits: Wyatt Riley, Nadim Ahmed, Clinton Morse
