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MAROC in Romania and Switzerland 2014
Roger and Trish Coombs made the Transylvania Open in Romania their warm-up for their prime 2014 summer focus, the Swiss O Week. Read more…
Rhona runs at JWOC 2014
The Junior World Orienteering Championships are the pinnacle of junior orienteering and this years GB team included MAROCs Rhona McMillan. Originally a reserve Rhona was pleased to be asked to complete the team when a drop-out occurred. Competing in all four race discipline during the week long competition Rhona put in some strong performances and particularly so in the relay where running in the GB 2nd team she helped them to an impressive 10th place, one ahead of Team 1.
Summer European competition for MAROC
MAROC athletes have been busy over the summer holidays this year with members taking part in competitions across Europe. From Croatia to Switzerland, Romania to Sweden MAROC were there….
Informal event at Torphins, 28th June 2014
On Saturday 28th June, Maroc will be hosting an informal event using the new urban map of Torphins, as part of the “Torphins in Action” event. There will be 2 courses available: a short course of ~1.5km suitable for novices and a longer course of ~4km suitable for more experienced, including club members. Technical difficulty of the longer course will be equivalent to orange standard.
Start times between 2-3:30pm from the grounds of the Torphins Health Centre.
Maroc at Jukola 2014
Maroc sent two teams to Jukola 2014 with a 42 year age spread between oldest and youngest.
Team 1: M20; M20; W21; W18; M16; M55; M50 put in an overall time that would have placed 255th and top British…but there was also an unfortunate mp though.
Team 2: M40; M35; W45; M18; M16; M50; M45 closed out in about 503rd. This in a field of about 1600 teams.
Full results and plenty of other information including videos.
Some photos are in the Picture Gallery - more will be added later this week
Another Jamie Stevenson Trophy win For MAROC in 2014
MAROCs juniors once again won the Jamie Stevenson Trophy beating ECKO and ESOC into 2nd and 3rd place at Deuchney Wood, Perth last weekend.
Report and photo on SOA website
2014 Scottish and British Champs successes
Maroc members have had lots of success at both the 2014 Scottish and British Championships over the past couple of weekends. Special congratulations to British Individual champions Jake Chapman (M14) and Jon Musgrave (M50) and to the M14 British relay champions Jake Chapman, Luke Graham and Joe Wright. Read on for a full report of both weekends…
More photos in the 2014 Photo Gallery
2014 Forest Sprint Series Final Results
Final Results are now available
Forest Sprint series scores after all 6 races
Congratulations to Alex Maclachan of Gramp for taking top spot this year. Jenny Ricketts was a close second.
Maroc selections for Junior Home Internationals 2014
Maroc has had a good number of juniors selected for the Scottish Team for the JHI’s being held near Oban on 29-31st August.
M14 – Alistair Chapman, Jake Chapman, Joe Wright, reserve Luke Graham
W14 – Kirsty Campbell, reserve Eilidh Campbell
M16 – Ross McMurtrie, Ewan McMillan
W16 – Abi Mason, reserve Megan Ricketts
W18 – Jennifer Ricketts
Congratulations to all 8 team members and the 3 reserves.
In addition Ross McMurtrie and Jennifer Ricketts have been selected for the British Orienteering Talent Development Summer Camp.
MAROC selections for WUOC and WOC 2014
Congratulations to both Helen Palmer and Rhona McMillan on their recent GB selections. Helen has been selected to represent GB at the World Orienteering Champs in the Middle Distance Event and the Relay. Rhona has been selected to represent GB at the World Universities Orienteering Champs in the Sprint, Long Distance and Relay events, a real achievement given she was competing with W21E’s for the selection. It’s great to see the Club being represented in Senior international orienteering events.