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The Canberra Cockatoos represent the ACT in the National Orienteering League. Pictured above are members of the 2016 Senior and Junior Men's and Women's Teams, after the Australian Championships in Stanthorpe Queensland.
National Orienteering League
The National Orienteering League is
Australia's premier orienteering competition. The League is primarily a teams’
competition: each State fields teams of at least three men and three women in a number of stages (a total of 14-18 per season). In addition, there is a
points competition, the National Series, for individual glory.
The
competitions are similar to the Tour de France in that the teams’ competition
is based on the placings of team members in stages. However, rather than all
the stages being conducted consecutively, the stages are spread throughout the
year in rounds of events (4 to 5 rounds per year).
Competition
Format
There
are four divisions of the National
League and of the National
Orienteering Series:
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Senior Men
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Senior Women
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Junior Men
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Junior Women
Except for Relays, National League points are awarded on the basis of the fastest times for the first three competitors from each team in each division of each stage of the National Series. Relay points are awarded on the basis of first team to finish for each State team.
The seven teams in the competition are: Canberra
Cockatoos, NSW Stingers, Queensland
Cyclones, Southern Arrows, Tassie
Foresters, Victorian Nuggets and the Western Nomads.
Canberra Cockatoos Among Finalists for ACT SportStar Awards
Monday, 20 October 2014
The Canberra Cockatoos team and  coach
Grant McDonald are among those named by ACTSPORT as finalists for the 2014
The Tradies ACT SportStar of the Year Annual awards which will be presented at a
dinner at 7.00 pm on Friday 31 October at The Tradies Club, Woden. Through a
quirk of the period (September 2013 – August 2014) the nominations relate to
the Cockatoos performances in 2013.
In November 2013 the Canberra Cockatoos
received monthly awards in five categories for October 2013: Team, Coach (Grant
McDonald), Male (Matt Crane), Female (Lizzie Ingham) and Junior (Ian Lawford).
And of those, the team and Grant McDonald have been named as one of the three
finalists in their categories.
The finalists in Konica Minolta Team SportStar of the Year: Canberra
Cavalry – Baseball, Canberra Cockatoos
– Orienteering, ACT 89er’s Men’s Softball Team.
The finalists in the Mix 106.3 Coach SportStar of the
Year: Michael Collins – Baseball, Grant
McDonald – Orienteering, Matt Beckenham – Athletics.
This is the first time Orienteering has
ever had a Coach named as a finalist and the first for some time that the
Cockatoos have been named as a finalist. They were finalists some years
ago and the Red Roos were finalists back in the 1980s. Only two
orienteers have ever been category winners:
Neither went on to be named ACT
SportStar for the Year.
The
Orienteering ACT Board is considering arrangements for the Cockatoos to be
represented appropriately at the Awards evening.
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