The East Anglia Orienteering Junior Squad were at the National Camp of M/W16s held at Hawkshead Youth Hostel in the Lake District last month. It was a great opportunity for the juniors to meet their national level peers and develop their orienteering skills over differing terrain.  The camp incorporated training sessions on three different areas over the course of the weekend. It was a really great weekend for the squad and included an amazing night sprint around the grounds of Hawkshead for both juniors and coaches.  

INTER-REGIONAL JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Every Autumn the regional squad competes against the other eleven regions of the United Kingdom in the Junior Inter Regional Championships. This years event was held in September in South Wales. The event consisted of an individual race on the Saturday and a relay event on the Sunday, with the East Anglian team finishing and excellent 9th place out of 12, narrowly missing an extremely close 7th in the final scores. Congratulations to SUFFOC junior members, Theo Steventon Barnes, Ethan and Olivia Radcliffe competed well at the event and were part of the Junior Squad.

ABOUT THE SQUAD

The Junior Squad, selected from across all clubs in the region is for age categories M/W12 to M/W18 and currently contains a number of SUFFOC juniors.  The Squad's Lead Coach, Clive Wilkinson (SUFFOC) supported by Roger Gooding (SOS) as coordinator, Sally Wilkinson (SUFFOC), as well as other club coaches from across the region hold monthly training sessions.  The team get together and enjoy good technical and fun sessions developing their skills. Juniors who are of at least confident orange standard are invited to join the squad.