Wow!! Excellent squad results at last weekend's British Orienteering Championships, held at Hampton Ridge in the New Forest.

Our squad's new British champions are Fiona Bunn (W10A), Tim Morgan (M12A), Katherine Bett (W14A), Alex Moore (M18S) and Jane Morgan (W45L). Peter Bray also had a great run to come in 2nd on M16A.

Well done to everybody who competed.

The Interland competition was held at Egypt Wood and Burnham Beeches on Sunday, 22nd February 2009. The Interland brings teams together from England, Belgium (both Flemish and Walloons) and The Netherlands to this annual international competition.

For those at this weekend's British Championships - well done. Dave will post a more detailed review later today once he has gone through all the results.

Squad training this Saturday, 7th March 2009 will be on Burghfield Common, near Mortimer in Berkshire.

We have confirmation for the location for squad training on Saturday, 14th February 2009. It will be on Barossa, Camberley. For those that have not been there before, it is a mixture of forest and heathland which will be good training for the British Championships later this month.

Our next training session is Saturday, 17th January 2009 at Avon Tyrrell, near Bransgore, in the New Forest. We will meet in the main car park SU186002 . Avon Tyrrell also has its own website [http://www.avontyrrell.org.uk/].

Looking forward to 2009, we have several training activities planned. The current calendar is attached. As you will see, we are looking for coaches and helpers for some of the dates. Additionally, we need an organiser and a coach for the Junior Interregionals in September 2009 in Northern Ireland [as neither Tim or Dave are able to be there].

It has been a busy and successful 2008 for the SCOA Junior Squad. Our membership has grown to over 35 juniors and we have held 17 training days and weekends. Here are some of the highlights:

- Junior Interregionals were held near Richmond and Warcop – squad produced solid performances and were 9th overall, despite being half the squad size of other regions.

Our next training session is Saturday, 1st November 2008 at the Lookout, Bracknell. We will meet in the main car park SU876661.

We will be training together with the East Midlands and West Midlands junior squads. The training exercises have been planned by Richard Robinson of East Midlands and will cover all junior squad abilities.

Our next training session is Saturday, 13th September 2008 at Hankley Common, Near Elstead.

Well done to all those who went to the JIRC in Yorkshire this weekend. We might not have won, but there were some good solid performances and none of you let yourselves down. Next year, we hope that there will be a full team, so that the results should be even better.

For those who have not yet found the full results, they are at http://www.cix.co.uk/~neper/jirc08/index.htm