Nearly 30 members of the club travelled to Christchurch at Queen’s Birthday weekend for three days of orienteering. The events doubled as the selection trials for the NZ team to participate in the Australian Secondary School Championships in Tasmania in late September. The team is expected to be announced in a few weeks.

Below are the top three placings of club members:

Sprint	Grade	Member	Placing
	Junior Girls	Alicia McGivern	1st
	W80A	Val Robinson	1st
	Junior Boys	Nathan Dowdall	1st
	M40A	Llew McGivern	2nd
	M80A	John Robinson	1st
Long	Grade	Member	Placing
	W20E	Georgia Skelton	1st
	W80A	Val Robinson	1st
	M80A	John Robinson	1st
Middle	Grade	Member	Placing
	Junior Girls	Lily West	3rd
	W20E	Georgia Skelton	1st
	W80A	Val Robinson	1st
	M80A	John Robinson	1st

Notably in the sprint event, the club had three members in the top five of the Junior Boys grade (Oscar Vink and Blake McKinnon were the other two).

Feedback from juniors who went to Christchurch suggests the terrain for the long and middle distance events was a challenge, being quite different to the sand dune terrain we have around Auckland.