East Anglian League winners5 Stragglers win medals
Medals were presented to the 2023 winners of East Anglian League (EAL) classes at the CompassSport heat at King's Forest on February 18th. Five members of the club topped their classes. Joshua Owen (M16), Roger Gooding (M45) Nicholas Pugh (M70), John Russell (M80), Geraldine Russell (W75). Congratulations to all of them.
SOS Club Championships
The 2023 SOS Club Championships was held at HAVOC event at Wordwell on Sunday October 1st. The results are below.
Congratulations to Oliver Prince and Lulu Gooding who are Club Champions.
SOS JUNIORS ARE SCHOOLS CHAMPS
Two SOS juniors achieved fantastic results at the recent East Anglian Schools' Championships.
Summer Holiday Fun sessions 2023
These sessions were aimed at families as a follow-up to our Schools Days. Various activities were on offer over the five weeks.
SOS Junior Captain Makes GB Team for 2024
Congratulations to Oliver Prince - Junior Captain (SOS) who has been selected once again to represent Great Britain (GB) at the European Youth Orienteering Champs (EYOC) in Szczecin, Poland this Summer 2024!
Stragglers in the medals
At the recent British Orienteering Championships at Cold Ash in Berkshire, John Russell (M80)and Chris Sellens (M35) came home with bronze medals. Congratulation to them and also to Oliver Prince with a very creditable 7th place in M18Elite.
2022/23 HAVOC-SOS Winter Series Winners announced
Gary Chandler was the runaway winner on the short course with Chris Prince taking the crown on the long course
Junior Awards
We were delighted to award a number of trophies to our juniors at Danbury Common.
Yvette Baker Trophy & ShieldSOS Juniors through to national final
Congratulations to SOS Juniors on winning the East Anglia qualifying heat of the Yvette Baker Shield competition. As a small club our juniors compete for the shield. This time they were only up against Suffolk with Norfolk and WAOC competing in the Trophy. The whole team performed brilliantly. The scorers were Oliver, Joshua, Amelie, Lulu and Abigail. Scoring 499 points out of a possible 500.
We wish them well in the national final in Sheffield on 9th July.
Jack Petchey Awards
Essex Stragglers spent a lovely evening at Charter Hall for the Jack Petchey Foundation Awards, celebrating the amazing achievements of local young people including two of our juniors. Well done to the two Bens. We are very proud of you both.