Congratulations to all of you who competed at the Britsh Championships near Midhurst on 1st April 2006. The squad now has two current British Champions - well done to Anne [W18L] and Alice [W18S]!!

Great results also from all the other SCOA squaddies: Kitty [4th, W18L], Susan [6th, W14A], Peter [8th, M14A], Tamsin [8th, W12A], Alex [15th, M14A], Alastair [16th, M14A], Martin [20th, M12A], Charlotte [21st, W16A] and Mike [36th, M16A]. In the most competitive event of the year, with the largest fields, these performances are excellent. Well done to you all.

The next junior squad training will be on Saturday, 25th March 2006 at Frith Hill, SU905580. The SN Saturday event will be on at the same place, so please meet with the rest of the squad in the car park.

As usual please meet at 1015 hrs ready for a 1030 hrs start and please let Dave Rogers whether or not you will be coming.

Best regards

Dave Rogers

Congratulations to those squad members who went to the Welsh Championships weekend on 4th and 5th March 2006. This was also a Future Champions Cup race. The event looks to have been rather snowy but despite this, SCOA squaddies and ex-squaddies did really well:
Anne Edwards, W18 1st (middle); 1st (long)
Tom Bray M20 6th (middle); 1st (long)
Kitty Bray W18 12th (middle); 7th (long)
Daniel Fopma M16 4th (long)

Dear All

Our next training session is a little over a week away, at Rushall Woods, near Bradfield - grid reference SU576735 .
Directions: From M4 Junction 12 (Theale) take the A4 westwards towards Newbury for about a mile. Turn north onto the A340 towards Pangbourne. Take the first left after several hundred yards onto a minor road towards Bradfield. At the crossroads in Bradfield village continue across the crossroads and then take the first left on another minor road. After half a mile or so, take the first right onto another minor road (probably signposted Yattendon, but I can't remember just now). The car park for the event will be in a large field on the right about 500 metres down this minor road. There will probably be orienteering signs down the minor roads. If you cross the M4 on the minor roads, you have gone too far.

The next squad training is on the 11 February at Denny Lodge in the New Forest. Meet in the Forestry Commission car park at SU302061 for a 10:30 start and we will aim to finish for 3 o'clock. Please let Dave Rogers know if you intend to attend.

Hi everyone - hope you are all having a nice festive season!

Next training is at Long Valley South on Saturday, 7th January 2006 as
follows:

GR 186/ SU830510 Meet at 10.15am

This training will be with South East Junior Squad. We are parking in a
carpark on the north side of the road connecting the A325, west of
Aldershot, to Fleet passing Tweseldown Race course. The car park is marked

The English Orienteering Council selection policy for the 2006 Junior Home International in September can be found on the BOF website.

Mark the following dates in your diary for 2006:

As you know, we have a squad training weekend on 3rd/4th December.

As some of you may have also realised, the BKO Juniors, including all those in the squad, have qualified for the final of the Yvette Baker Trophy which is on the Sunday of the same weekend. So that we can make sure that both of these events happen, Dave and myself have arranged that the squad weekend will no longer be in the New Forest, but we will, instead be training in the East Midlands on the Saturday, stay overnight locally and take part in the Yvette Baker Trophy and District Event run by Nottingham OC on the Sunday.

November training will take place on Saturday 12th November at Mytchett. Please meet at the usual time [1015 to 1030 hrs]. Training will finish around 1500 hrs.

The grid reference of the car park is SU918558. This is a layby on a road just off the B3012 east of Mytchett. Please ask me if you're not sure where it is.