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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.
Top Maroc performances at JK 2014
Approximately 40 members attended the 2014 Jan Kjellstrom International event in the south Wales valleys over the Easter weekend.
Maroc, as usual, had a series of outstanding performances with many top 10 placings but the club’s sole overall class winner was Ewan Musgrave on M10A, who also won the sprint. The junior relay team of Jake Chapman, Matthew Gooch and Joe Wright finished second in their class.
2014 Deeside Forest Sprints
MAROC and GRAMP are joining forces again, this time to put on the Deeside Forest Sprint-O series. The series will commence on Friday 11th April at Tollo Hill and the single course event format will cater for all Orienteers of TD3 standard and above. Shadowing is allowable but please make such occurrences known to the Organiser. Expected winning times for the evening races will be in the order of 15-20 minutes.
Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup Rules
The (JD)2C competition will be run over 13 x Level C events with the best 6 scores counting for each runner.
Rules and Events 2014
Clean Orienteering Shoes for 2014
You will all have heard about the new diseases spreading in our forests – from Ash die back to Ramorum and others that affect Pine trees. Naturally we are getting requests from landowners for us to help avoid introducing any infections into their areas. To this end please can you ensure that all shoes are cleaned of the previous event’s mud/pine needles etc before going to the next event. At present using a household disinfectant is sufficient (though if outbreaks of disease do start appearing locally we might need to use stronger stuff….)
If we can show we are taking steps to avoid problems it will stand us in good stead if any outbreaks happen and might well stop us being barred from some of our areas.
Please comply with this request and help continue the club’s good relations with local landowners.
Jon Musgrave
President, Maroc
Windswept and ‘interesting’ Maroc/Deeside run up Mt Shade and Clachnaben.
Mean and moody on top, hares in winter pelage, and we just beat the rain back to the cars.
Donald K.
Well done Jenny & Rhona
Jenny Ricketts and Rhona McMillan were part of the GB team competing at the European Youths Championships in Portugal at the end of October. Full results and full details on the EYOC web site.
Also congratulations to both Jenny and Rhona on their selections for the British OrienteeringTalent Development Squad for 2013/2014. Well done both.
2013 Scottish Junior Inter Area - 5th/6th October
The 2013 Scottish Junior Inter Area competition was hosted in Deeside on 5th & 6th October. In all, a total of 111 juniors took part in the Relay and 128 in the Individual competition, which may be a record.