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2025 Auckland Regional Sprint Championships Info

The Auckland Regional Sprint Championships will be hosted by Counties Manukau Orienteering Club this year on Sunday 6 April, with two events:

  • Morning: Macleans College
  • Afternoon: St Kentigern College

What is the timeline for the day?

  • 9:00am Registration opens at Macleans College
  • 9:45am Day/Event Briefing
  • 10:00am Races commence
  • 11:45am Course closure (any competitors still in the field should return to the Finish)
  • 12:30pm Manor Park (rear) gates open at St Kentigern College
  • 1:15pm Afternoon Race Briefing
  • 1:30pm Afternoon races commence
  • 2:15pm Top 10 finishers (from the morning) start
  • 2:30pm Public races commence
  • 2:45pm (estimated) Prizegiving Ceremony
  • 3:30pm Course closure

What are the event fees?

$14 per student, plus $3 for Sport Ident hire (unless you provide your own). $5 for public race

Where can I find event info?

Here is the Bulletin with some really useful info – please take a look! And here is the Health and Safety info. If you have any questions or need help, please email us.

How do I know if I’m eligible?

The top 10 competitors in each of the 10 competition classes:

  • Year 7 Girls and Boys/Open (includes medals)
  • Year 8 Girls and Boys/Open (includes medals)
  • Junior (Year 9) Girls and Boys/Open
  • Intermediate (Years 10 and 11) Girls and Boys/Open
  • Senior (Years 12 and 13) Girls and Boys/Open

…are eligible to enter the Championship!

Your result is determined by your Top 4 placings/scores from across your local Sprint Series. However, if competitors are unable to attend, then the eligibility extends until 10 competitors have entered. That is, if the 3rd, 6th, and 7th placed are unable to attend, then eligibility would extend to the 11th, 12th, and 13th placed competitors from their Zone’s Sprint Series are now eligible… And so on. Please advise your entries manager as soon as possible if you are unable to attend, so that others can take part if you cannot!

How do I enter?

Colleges please enter via College Sport. Intermediates please enter using this spreadsheet.

Entries for the public race at St Kentigern College on the same courses will start after all Championship Entrants have started (estimated to be around 2.30pm). Teachers, supporters, parents, non-qualifiers are all eligible to enter – please use this spreadsheet to enter. The cost for public entry is $5, and Counties Manukau Orienteering Club will invoice schools directly for Intermediate School entries, including public race entrants.

What if I have a student who wants to enter but isn’t in the Top 10?

If you have students that are just outside the Top10 (the next 5, i.e. top 15 competitor), and would like to extend the invitation to them to compete in the Championship, you are welcome to do so. Please exercise common sense and practicality, and let us know if you have any questions. We always have a small number (sometimes as high as 30%) from the Top 10 who are unable to attend, and then their placing extends to the 11th, 12th etc. We are not going to track all the details, but will instead empower each school to make some sensible local decisions.

Results for the 2025 Southern Zone and Eastern Zone Sprint Series

Find results from the 2025 Southern Zone and Eastern Zone Sprint series here, updated as they come in!

Take our survey!

At Counties Manukau Orienteering Club (CMOC), we love orienteering: Participating, delivering, and teaching it… And we’d like to know, so that we can improve, what you like and what you would like to see more of (or less of). We would love if you would take our survey: CMOC Schools Orienteering Programme Feedback

This survey will focus on the first three months of CMOC’s School Orienteering Programme’s deliveries, mainly the Eastern Zone Sprint Series, the Southern Zone Sprint Series, and the Zone Days. It should take you around 5 to 10 minutes to fill this out.

We are a very strongly youth-focussed organisation. If you’re a parent, we’d love your feedback, and we’d also love it if you helped your children tell us how they thought we did too!

Eastern Zone Sprint Series is back for 2023!

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Newsletter Two for the New Zealand Secondary Schools Orienteering Championship 2022 is ready now! CMOC looks forward to welcoming you to the Auckland region in July.

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Bulletin One for the New Zealand Secondary Schools Orienteering Championship 2022 is ready now! CMOC looks forward to welcoming you to the Auckland region in July.

25 May 2022 AKSS Results

Results are available for the AKSS Champs, held on Wednesday 25 May at Waiuku Forest (North). Congratulations to all of our place-getters!

NZSSOC 2022: 21-23 July 2022

Bulletin One for the New Zealand Secondary Schools Orienteering Championship 2022 is ready now! CMOC looks forward to welcoming you to the Auckland region in July.

Eastern and Southern Zone Sprint Series Cancelled

Due to the restrictions of the COVID Protection Framework’s Red phase, we regret that we’ve had to cancel the Eastern and Southern Zone Sprint Series events which were to take place after school on Mondays and Tuesdays in February and March.