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Deeside Night Cub - Final Results and Social
Over 30 orienteers found their way to Rock, Salt and Sole in Banchory on Wednesday for a meal and prize giving marking the end of the 2017/18 Deeside Night Cup Series.
Members of Mar Orienteering and Grampian Orienteering Clubs shared their stories over tasty fish and chips as the final scores were being totalled up from the closing event earlier that evening on Sluie estate.
Cairngorms Nature BIG Weekend
Linn of Dee Nature Orienteering
The COPE project will be joining in with the Cairngorms Nature BIG weekend by organising a family event at Linn of Dee.
Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup 2018
I'm sure the sharp-eyed amongst you will have noticed some people in the wrong age categories in the previously published standings! Here is a revision of the standings, hopefully with the correct age categories for everyone this time: JD2C standings. Further update after the Shooting Greens event to follow soon...
Results in italics indicate that the competitor was shadowed and score half points. The coordinator has asked that people get in touch if the status (shadowed or not shadowed) is incorrect for your family members.
Braemar Mountain Festival
2-4th Mar 2018
We will be hosting some introductory orienteering events suitable for all at the Braemar Mountain Festival at the beginning of March. There will be 3 sessions on Fri, Sat and Sun afternoon which will take place in Creag Choinnich woodland and up onto Carn nan Sgliat.
Orienteering is an excellent way of practising skills for application to mountain navigation, with the particular bonus that there is an opportunity to successively repeat and reinforce skills over a short duration.
Participants in the morning festival navigation sessions may wish to test out their new skills by trying out the afternoon orienteering courses.
Maroc Talent Squad 2018
Maroc Talent Squad aims to inspire our top juniors to develop their orienteering skills and train harder in order to improve their results.
MTS members for 2018 are: Joe Wright, Felix Wilson, Eilidh Campbell, Kirsty Campbell, Alistair Chapman, John Getliff, Luke Graham, Matthew Gooch, Amber Graham
If you would like to be selected for the squad in the future, read on to see what you have to do:
Club Coach Information
Maroc organises regular training sessions for all club members. The sessions involve technical exercises designed to practice different skills and techniques required in orienteering. Participants are allocated to a small group according to their age and experience with each group led by a qualified coach.
The club has quite a large pool of coaches, but is always looking for more people interested in being trained. Current coaches are listed below.
Sarah Dunn
Sarah Dunn is a UKCC Level 3 qualified coach. She is also a qualified coach education tutor. Sarah has worked with athletes at all levels from complete novices in schools to elite athletes competing at an international level. She particularly enjoys leading sessions with Maroc's Talent Squad of 15-18 year olds. Sarah also leads a primary age after-school club in Aboyne on a regular basis.
Jon Musgrave
Jon Musgrave is a BOF Level 5 qualified coach as well as a qualified tutor and assessor for UKCC courses. Jon started coaching back in the stone age (c 1987) and has coached all levels from the British team at the World Championships to adult and junior beginners. Jon enjoys planning and leading TD5 training in technical areas. He has gained most pleasure from coaching on the original NEDS (now SEDS) programme which was aimed at preparing young potential team members for WOC 1999. He also enjoys supporting the Maroc Talent Squad.
Trevor Ricketts
Trevor qualified as a 1st4sport and BOF Level 2 coach in 2007, which is now considered to be equivalent to UKCC Level 1. Trevor has coached with Maroc at all levels since then and has occasionally helped with coaching Scotjos. In addition to coaching at any level, Trevor is keen to support new coaches in delivering training sessions.