Victorian Team Profiles
Senior Girls
Junior Girls
Senior Boys
Junior Boys
Officials
Kerryn Searle
- School
- Bendigo Senior Secondary College
- Year
- 12
- Age
- 18
- Town/suburb
- Strathdale
- Orienteering club
- Bendigo
- Sisters/brothers
- 2 brothers-David and Andrew
- Favorite Food
- Danish pastries, apples
- Years in orienteering
- 11 Years
- Football team
- Collingwood
- Pets
- A cat-pussy
- Favorite song/band
- One by U2
- Nick names
- Kezza
- Other sports played
- Tennis
- Most admired sports person
- Elizabeth Bennet
- Started orienteering
- Parents took me along when I was 7 or 8 and I went
around with them. Started seriously orienteering at about Age 11
- Favorite terrain/map
- Goldmining or pure forest-maps with detail. Favorite
map is Cantura Dunes
- Disliked terrain
- Granite
- Most memorable map
- Warrigal Rocks- Vic Champs 1994- became lost and spent
the next hours lost with future friends, not knowing where to go
- Best thing about orienteering
- Friends and satisfaction
- Least liked about orienteering
- running in the bad weather
- Goals Set
- A.C.T Championships:Top 5
- Schools Championships: Top5
- Australian Championships: Top 5
- Ambition in orienteering
- To represent Australia and to continue
orienteering as long as I am physically and mentally capable
Lian Prendergast
- School
- Loreto College
- Year
- 10
- Age
- 16
- Town/suburb
- Delacombe(Ballarat)
- Years in orienteering
- 12 Years
- Orienteering club
- Eureka
- Sisters/brothers
- A brother Conan and a sister Aislinn
- Favorite Food
- Thai chicken curry
- Football team
- Essendon
- Pets
- A dog-Talbot
- Other sports played
- Cross Country, triathlon, rowing
- Most admired sports person
- Henk Vogels
- Started orienteering
- My family brought me along when I was very young.
- Favorite terrain/map
- Spur Gully-Canadian (this is the name of a map - Ed.)
- Disliked terrain
- Mining
- Most memorable map
- Little Forest-did really well at Vic Relay Champs
- Best thing about orienteering
- The mental challenge
- Least liked about orienteering
- Getting lost
- Goals Set
- A.C.T. Championship: To win
- Schools Championships: To win
- Australian Championships: To win
- Ambition in orienteering
- To go to JWOC
Kathryn Ewels
- Age
- 17
- School
- Gisborne Secondary College
- Year
- 11
- Town/suburb
- Macedon
- Years in orienteering
- 4 Years
- Orienteering club
- Central Highlands
- Sisters/brothers
- 2 sisters, Jane and Meredeth
- Favorite Food
- Lasagna and chocolate
- Football team
- Essendon
- Pets
- 2 guinea pigs, 30 budgies, 1 dog-Amica, 4 chooks
- Other sports played
- Athletics and Cross Country. Have played netball,
football, cricket, badminton and swimming for the school
- Most admired sports person
- Cathy Freemen, Steve Monghetti, and Yvette
Hague(British orienteer)
- Started orienteering
- Started through Macedon primary school and went to
the first bush event in 1992.
- Favorite terrain/map
- Spur/gully with a sprinkle of gold mining-White Swan
- Disliked terrain
- Very intricate-granite
- Most memorable map
- Southern Cross Challenge in Ballarat 94, ran under 16
for my first major competeion. Had minimal orienteering skills in the
goldmining so I just ran and finished second behind Julia. (Minty)
- Least memorable map
- Warrigal Rocks, first major event(Vic champs) got lost
half way through the course and spent 1 and 1/2 hour on a 2.3 km course. Did
however meet future orienteering friends who were lost as well
- Best thing about orienteering
- Friends, fitness
- Least liked about orienteering
- Occasional bad weather
- Outstanding results
- 97-9th U20 Australian Schools Cross Country
Championships, 10th Australia Cross Country Championships, 1st U20
Australian Short Orienteering Championship. 96'- 1st Senior Australian
Schools Orienteering Championships, 1st U16 Southern Cross Junior
Challenge, 1st U16 Victorian Orienteering Championships. 1st U14 Vic. 3000m;
1st U14 3K Vic. cross country. Member Heart Health towards 2000 Athletics squad
- Goals Set
- A.C.T Championships: A placing
- Schools Championships: A placing(and honor team)
- Australian Championships:A placing
- Ambition in orienteering
- To represent Australia at JWOC and hopefully WOC
Jenny Prime
- School
- Ballarat College
- Year
- 11
- Age
- 17
- Town
- Bacchus Marsh
- Years in orienteering
- 9 Years
- Orienteering club
- Tuckonie
- Sisters/brothers
- Sister-Emma
- Favorite Food
- Nachos
- Football team
- Geelong
- Pets
- A cat
- Other sports played
- Cricket
- Most admired sports person
- Richard Virenque-bike rider
- Started orienteering
- My family were going before I was born, and I just
went along with them.
- Favorite terrain/map
- Goldminning-Belltopper hill
- Disliked terrain
- Steep, spur/gully
- Most memorable map
- 2nd day at Easter 97. Good run with no mistakes and made
up a lot of time on other competitors
- Least memorable map
- Mt Alexander-as I have never had a good run on it.
- Best thing about orienteering
- The navigation
- Least liked about orienteering
- Running up steep hills
- Goals Set
- A.C.T. Championship: To have a good run with no mistakes
- Schools Championships: To have a good run with no mistakes
- Australian Championships: To have a good run with no mistakes
- Ambition in orienteering
- Hopefully get in the JWOC team
Clemmie Thompson
- Age
- 15
- School
- Camberwell Anglican Girls Grammar
- Year
- 10
- Town/suburb
- Mont Albert
- Years in orienteering
- 8 Years
- Nicknames
- Clem
- Sisters/brothers
- 2 brothers Alex and Danny
- Orienteering club
- Yarra Valley
- Favorite Food
- Chuppa Chumps! (Is this a reference to last year's prizes? - Ed.)
- Football team
- Essendon
- Pets
- Dog-Tessa, Cat-Kozma
- Favorite song/band
- Live
- Other sports played
- Basketball ,softball, hockey, volleyball ,athletics and
cross country
- Most admired sports person
- Che Cockatoo-Collins (Essendon football player)
- Started orienteering
- My family has been going since I was born, however I
started running by myself in 1989
- Favorite terrain/map
- Spur/gully-Kimbolton(Lake Eppolack)
- Disliked terrain
- Rocky
- Most memorable map
- Australian relay 1995, I couldn't run because of a
stress fracture so I walked, spiked every control and still did one of the
better times!
- Least memorable map
- Apollo Road (ACT) 3rd day of Easter 1994, I was winning
and I went off the map for 3
hours disqualifying myself. (As that day's course setter, this one still
gives me nightmares - Ed.)
- Best thing about orienteering
- Friends and fitness
- Least liked about orienteering
- The long traveling and occasional bad weather
- Goals Set
- A.C.T. Championships: A placing
- Schools Championships: A placing(and honor team)
- Australian Championships: A placing
- Ambition in orienteering
- JWOC and I didn't know after that.
Emily Hart
- Age
- 15
- School
- Ballarat and Clarendon College
- Year
- 10
- Town
- Ballarat
- Years in orienteering
- 9 Years
- Orienteering club
- Eureka
- Sisters/brothers
- 1 sister, Sally
- Favorite Food
- Many including chicken
mango(Chinese),burritos(Mexico),lasagna(Italian)
- Football team
- None really! Prefer to watch gridiron and soccer
- Pets
- A dog-Peggy, a cat-Teasle
- Favorite song/band
- Ben Lee, Maris's, blink 182
- Other sports played
- Hockey and Rowing
- Most admired sports person
- Nova Peris -hockey player/athlete
- Started orienteering
- I started with my family. I think I began to
orienteer when I was about 6
- Favorite terrain/map
- I like open terrain, spur gully terrain
- Disliked terrain
- Close intricate rocks with lots of green (e.g. Kooyoora)
- Most memorable map
- Kooyoora-I really got my money's worth by spending 2
hours on the course
- Best thing about orienteering
- Going out in the bush having a good run and
catching up with my friends
- Least liked about orienteering
- Having to run in a t-shirt when its freezing
cold and pouring down with rain
- Outstanding results
- Have won boat races (major Ballarat rowing event) in
1996. A few OYs and badge places
- Goals Set
- A.C.T Championships: To go well
- Schools Championships: To have a good, steady run
- Australian Championships: To go well-top half
- Ambition in orienteering
- To improve on both skills and fitness
Alexandra Sinickas
- School
- Methodist Ladies College
- Year
- 8
- Age
- 13
- Town/suburb
- Ivanhoe
- Nicknames
- Zandra, Alzo
- Years in orienteering
- 7 Years
- Orienteering club
- Yarra Valley
- Sisters/brothers
- 1 brother-Michael
- Favorite Food
- Lasagna and any pasta
- Football team
- I hate footy
- Pets
- None-but I'd like to own one!!!!
- Other sports played
- Swimming, cycling, softball and skiing
- Most admired sports person
- All sports people as they work really hard to
became good.
- Started orienteering
- My family became interested after reading a pamphlet
on orienteering
- Favorite terrain/map
- Rocky-Kooyoora Spur
- Disliked terrain
- Broken Hill terrain
- Most memorable map
- Wattle Gully-I like all the goldmining
- Least memorable map
- All the rest-there have been so many
- Best thing about orienteering
- Friends
- Least liked about orienteering
- Getting lost, wet, scratched and the
spiderwebs between the trees
- Goals Set
- ACT Championship: 1st half
- Schools Championships: To have a good run with no mistakes
- Australian Championships: To have a good run with no mistakes
- Ambition in orienteering
- To make the schools team (she did - Ed.)
Andrea Hughes
- School
- Siena College, Camberwell
- Year
- 10
- Age
- 15
- Town/suburb
- Box Hill Nth
- Orienteering club
- Yarra Valley
- Sisters/brothers
- A sister Rebecca 18
- Favorite Food
- Banana paddle pops; strawberries and cream; chuppa chups
- Years in orienteering
- 6 Years
- Football team
- Essendon
- Favorite song/band
- M+M's by Blink 182
- Other sports played
- Softball, calisthenics and cross country
- Most admired sports person
- Shane Warne and Matthew Elliot
- Started orienteering
- Clemmie took me orienteering towards the end of 1990
and I joined Yarra Valley at the start of 1991
- Favorite terrain/map
- Open spur gully-Belltopper Hill
- Disliked terrain
- Very confusing, rocky terrain
- Most memorable map
- About four years ago when I beat Clemmie for the first
and only time by 1 second
- Least memorable map
- OY7+OY8, I took 2 1/2 hrs on the first day and 1 1/2
hours on the second my total time over 4hrs
- Best thing about orienteering
- Friends and keeping fit
- Least liked about orienteering
- The amount of time taken by by traveling
- Goals Set
- A.C.T Championships:Be confident and do as good as I can
- Schools Championships: Don't doubt myself because of the big competition
- Australian Championships: Don't doubt myself because of the big competetion
- Ambition in orienteering
- To enjoy myself, be competitive and keep improving
Justin Slater
- School
- Girton Grammar
- Year
- 11
- Age
- 16
- Town
- Strathfieldsaye
- Orienteering club
- Bendigo
- Sisters/brothers
- A brother Ross 14, and a sister Andrea 10
- Favorite Food
- Chicken
- Years in orienteering
- 9 Years
- Football team
- Sydney Swans
- Pets
- A dog
- Favorite music
- Click goes the Shears and Tie My Kangaroo Down
- Most admired sports person
- Donovan Bailey
- Started orienteering
- I started orienteering with my family in 1988 at
Kooyoora Spur. It was a really foggy day and we got lost
- Favorite terrain/map
- Fairly flat spur/gully terrain-Lyell Forest
- Disliked terrain
- Complicated granite terrain.
- Most memorable map
- Orroral Crossing(Canberra). It took me over 3 hours to
finish the 8km course around 3 o'clock (this was the event
where the M16 course was so long that not even Petter Thoresen
or Jorgen Martensson would have done the recommended winning
time of 50 minutes - Ed.)
- Least memorable map
- Mt Pearson(Tasmania) Missing out on a placing by 6 sec
- Best thing about orienteering
- Getting fit and being lost in the bush. As
well traveling around Australia to different events.
- Least liked about orienteering
- Its low profile, cliquey groups in clubs
- Outstanding results
- Victoria Orienteering Champion-M14-1994, M16-1996, 3rd
in Southern Cross Challenge M16-1996
- Goals Set
- A.C.T. Championships: Top 5
- Schools Championships: Top 10
- Australian Championships: Top 5
- Ambition in orienteering
- To finish every course
Troy de Haas
- School
- Gisborne Secondary College
- Year
- 11/12
- Age
- 18
- Town
- Macedon
- Sisters/brothers
- 2 sisters-Monique and Krystal
- Orienteering club
- Central Highlands
- Favorite Food
- Lasagna/Jarlsberg cheese
- Years in orienteering
- 9 Years
- Football team
- Melbourne
- Pets
- A dog-Jackie
- Favorite music
- Tecno
- Most admired sports person
- Petter Thoresen(Norway)
- Started orienteering
- I started orienteering with my dad when I was about 11
years old
- Favorite terrain/map
- Anything extreme e.g. steep rocky slopes
- Disliked terrain
- Flat, boring low technical terrain
- Most memorable map
- First O'Ringen in 96
- Outstanding results
- 9th short race JWOC 97,115th classic race 97. 1996-JWOC
49th short, 58th Classic event
- Goals Set
- A.C.T. Championships: 1st
- Schools Championships: 1st
- Australian Championships: 1st
- Ambition in orienteering
- To win a JWOC medal!
Simon Goddard
- School
- Macleod College
- Year
- 10
- Age
- 16
- Nickname
- Hornet
- Town/suburb
- Eaglemont
- Orienteering club
- Yarra Valley
- Sisters/brothers
- A sister-Moira
- Favorite Food
- Milo
- Years in orienteering
- 10 Years
- Football team
- Hawthorn
- Favorite music
- Wasting time by Blink 182
- Other sports played
- Ice Hockey, Basketball, Swimming, Skateboarding
- Most admired sports person
- Kathy Watt
- Started orienteering
- My parents took me along and persuaded me to go out
with lollies.
- Favorite terrain/map
- Really big extreme stuff-Kooyora Spur
- Disliked terrain
- Thick undergrowth
- Most/least memorable map
- The 3rd day of Easter '97' when I picked up the
wrong one-when leading the field on the last day
- Least liked about orienteering
- Thick undergrowth
- Outstanding results
- 2nd Junior boys-1996, a part of the junior boys 2nd
- Goals Set
- A.C.T. Championships: High placing-1st or 2nd
- Schools Championships: No real goal- top 10
- Australian Championships: High placing-1st or 2nd
- Ambition in orienteering
- To reach elite level and place top 10 in WOC
Andrew Dent
- School
- Koonung Secondary College
- Year
- 10
- Age
- 15
- Town/suburb
- Box Hill
- Orienteering club
- Yarra Valley
- Sisters/brothers
- A sister-Katherine
- Favorite Food
- Pizza
- Years in orienteering
- 8 Years
- Football team
- Western Bulldogs
- Pets
- A cat
- Started orienteering
- I started orienteering with my parents
- Favorite terrain/map
- Intricate goldmining -Creswick Diggings
- Disliked terrain
- Really steep stuff
- Most memorable map
- Broken Hill- as it was so different
- Least memorable map
- 1995-5 day- felt sick the whole way through and ended up
being sick
- Best thing about orienteering
- Getting fit
- Least liked about orienteering
- Getting lost
- Goals Set
- A.C.T. Championships: top 5
- Schools Championships: no mistakes
- Australian Championships: top 10
- Ambition in orienteering
- To finish first more often
Ross Slater
- School
- Home School
- Year
- 9
- Age
- 14
- Town
- Strathfieldsaye
- Orienteering club
- Bendigo
- Sisters/brothers
- A brother Justin 17, and a sister Andrea 10
- Favorite Food
- Pies and chips
- Years in orienteering
- 9 Years
- Football team
- Essendon
- Pets
- 1 dog, Toby
- Favorite music
- Everywhere you go, you always take the weather
- Other sports played
- Indoor cricket, I would like to play football
- Most admired sports person
- David Calthrope-running half back flanker for
Essendon (hopefully Ross won't get injured as frequently - Ed.), Ian Healy-wicketkeeper for Australian and who keeps the score
moving while batting
- Started orienteering
- Started orienteering with my family in 1988 at Kooyoora
Spur. It was a really foggy day and we got lost
- Favorite terrain/map
- Spur/gully and goldmining -Cardinia Dam
- Disliked terrain
- Granite and flat terrain-Kooyora.
- Most memorable map
- The living desert -Broken Hill because Simon had to
follow me around the course after he picked up the wrong map
- Least memorable map
- 1996-Vic relays at Chinamans Flat. The M14A course was
only 1.8km
- Best thing about orienteering
- The water controls and the water at the finish
- Least liked about orienteering
- Having to punch the control cards in order.
It's a waste of time!!
- Outstanding results
- 1st International 5 days, Best and fairest U/12 soccer
and OY winner 95 and 96
- Goals Set
- A.C.T. Championships: 1st
- Schools Championships: 1st
- Australian Championships: 1st
- Ambition in orienteering
- To have fun. Flog NSW at the Schools champs.
Adrian Jackson
- School
- The Knox School
- Year
- 8
- Age
- 14
- Town/suburb
- Ferny Creek
- Orienteering club
- Nillumbik Emus
- Sisters/brothers
- A sister-Melinda 10, a brother-Timothy 2
- Nickname
- Alex
- Favorite Food
- Pizza
- Years in orienteering
- 6 Years
- Football team
- Hawthorn
- Pets
- 2 cats
- Started orienteering
- I was introduced to Orienteering by my parents when I
was eight. I first orienteered by myself when I was 10 Years old
- Favorite terrain/map
- Gold mining-White Swan/Nerrina
- Disliked terrain
- Granite
- Most memorable map
- Borhoney Ghurk. I won the course and I was selected in
the Victorian Team to go to Tasmania
- Least memorable map
- Living Desert, Easter 97 Day 3. Was coming 3rd but
dropped to 7th after taking 85mins. for the 4.3km course
- Best thing about orienteering
- Doing really well on a course
- Least liked about orienteering
- Making mistakes and running really fast on
the next leg and making only a bigger mistake
- Outstanding results
- 5th in 96 Australian Championshipships M14A and 4th in
Easter 96
- Goals Set
- A.C.T. Championships: Top 3
- Schools Championships: Top 10
- Australian Championships:Top 5
- Ambition in orienteering
- To make the JWOC and WOC teams
Matthew Schepisi
- School
- Girton Grammar
- Year
- 8
- Age
- 14
- Town
- Bendigo
- Orienteering club
- Bendigo
- Sisters/brothers
- Brother-Daniel and a sister Catherine
- Favorite Food
- Lasagna
- Years in orienteering
- 2 Years
- Football team
- Essendon
- Pets
- A labrador-Heidi
- Nick names
- Schepisi
- Other sports played
- Soccer.
- Started orienteering
- In June 95, I began with a friend who already
participated in orienteering and my first event was a Bendigo local event
- Favorite terrain/map
- Spur/gully terrain and one of my favorite maps is Sedgwick
- Disliked terrain
- Goldmining as it is hard to run through
- Most memorable map
- Sedgwick because when I competed in the 3-hour score
event my dog escaped from my house and ended up coming on the course with us
- Best thing about orienteering
- Winning and doing my best
- Least liked about orienteering
- Making stupid mistakes
- Outstanding results
- 1st 1995 Western Zone Primary School Champs
- Goals Set
- A.C.T. Championships:To do my best
- Schools Championships: To do my best
- Australian Championships: To do my best
- Ambition in orienteering
- To compete at an international level
Nic Buc
- School
- Scotch College
- Year
- 10
- Age
- 15
- Town/suburb
- Eaglemont
- Sisters/brothers
- A brother, Andrew, and sister, Katya
- Favourite food
- Spaghetti bolognese
- Years in orienteering
- 3
- Pets
- A dog (Daisy) and cat (Muffy)
- Favourite song/band
- 'A View To A Kill', by Duran Duran (I'm impressed, given
that Duran Duran had disappeared without trace by the time
Nick was two - Ed.)
- Nicknames
- Peck
- Other sports played
- Football, tennis, cross-country running
- Most admired sports person
- Paul Williams
- Started orienteering
- In 1994, Simon Goddard persuaded me to come to an event.
- Favourite terrain/map
- Something with a bit of everything and not too hard (e.g.
Creswick Diggings)
- Disliked terrain
- Steep, steep hills and enormous rocks
- Most memorable map
- Kooyoora State park - because it was so bloody hard
- Best thing about orienteering
- The satisfaction of doing something 2000 other boys at
my school can't do
- Outstanding results
- Making the Victorian team in orienteering, and runner-up
in the Ivanhoe football club best and fairest in 1996.
- Least liked about orienteering
- Getting lost
- Goals set
- ACT Championships: to beat Ross Slater
- Schools Championships: to finish in the top 10
- Australian Championships: to finsih the course! (This
shoud actually be the easiest course of the three - Ed.)
- Ambition in orienteering
- To persist at getting better and better at it all the time.
Blair Trewin (assistant coach)
- Suburb
- Albert Park
- Study
- Blair is studying at the University of Melbourne, 3rd Year Ph.D.(climatology)
- Orienteering club
- Yarra Valley
- Sisters/brothers
- Cassie-JWOC representative 97,96,95,94
- Favorite Food
- Lasagna
- Years in orienteering
- 11 Years
- Football team
- Essendon
- Favorite music
- Midnight Oil
- Sports also played
- None apart from distance running and I played some
cricket when younger
- Most admired sports person
- Steve Waugh
- Started orienteering
- July 1978: My parents were looking desperately for a
sport that I might be interested in (I'd already demonstrated that I was
hopelessly uncoordinated for any sort of ball game) and heard something
about orienteering.
- Favorite terrain/map
- Runnable granite, Kooyora
- Disliked terrain
- Anything that is fast and technically easy (I enjoy these
areas but do not run well in them). Also thick, steep areas with no deeming
technical features.
- Most memorable map
- Kaiserstuhl (SA, 1986 Aus. Champs)- "I had a very late
start and knew what time I needed to run, was in trouble early, and ran the
last 1.6km in 7.30 min. to win by a minute".
- Least memorable map
- Kapamahunga (NZ, 1987 Aust-NZ Challenge)- A steep, thick
map, a dreadful day and a dreadful run
- Best thing about orienteering
- Being able to run in a pleasant environment
with continuous mental challenges.
- Least liked about orienteering
- Missing out on WOC teams!
- Outstanding results
- Member of 1995 WOC team, Australian Champion in
91(M20),90(M20), 88(M18),87(M16),86(M17),85(M12),83(M12)
- Goals Set
- A.C.T Championships: 1st
- Schools Championships:To see Victoria win it!
- Australian Championships:1st
- Ambition in orienteering
- To make WOC team again in 1999, and to make the
final once at WOC
Peta Whitford (coach)
- Occupation
- Part time with the VOA, qualified Secondary School P.E. teacher,
Youth leader and outdoor education teacher, Level 3 coaching certificate.
- Town
- Steels Creek
- Years in orienteering
- 26 Years
- Nick names
- Pete
- Orienteering club
- Yarra Valley
- Family
- Sister Penny, A husband Ian and children Tarli 19
and Jarrod 18
- Favorite Food
- Chinese style food(but not fish)
- Football team
- Essendon
- Pets
- 4 sheep, a cat
- Sports that I have played
- Netball, Athletics(mainly discus and shot put),
canoeing and a little bit of tennis.
- Most admired sports person
- There are many including Betty Cuthbert, Steve
Moneghetti, Kieren Perkins and good orienteering buddy Toy Martin(USA Olympic
team member for speed skating)
- Started orienteering
- Friends invited me to join them in 1971
- Favorite terrain/map
- Very intricate-granite, goldmining. Kooyoora
- Disliked terrain
- Open spur-gully-it's too fast
- Most memorable map
- Cantara Dunes(SA) Such intricate contours with deintish
vegetation patches. Big challenge to do well
- Least memorable map
- Pyrites Creek (TKOC map )near Bullengarook- it's thick,
prickly and the weather is usually wet and cold
- Best thing about orienteering
- Each event is a complete new challenge and
although I am not a fast runner, I have a chance to perform well using
decision making and map interpretation skills.
- Least liked about orienteering
- Getting tired
- Outstanding results
- World Championship 1974-Denmark 31st Classic, Australian
Championship 1984-New Zealand 1st, Australian Championship 1977 1st, when
pregnant with Tarli!
- Goals Set
- A.C.T Championships: Finish in the top 6
- Schools Championships: "For each team member to perform really well. To
WIN!(beat NSW) No injuries or sickness. For the team to be a cohesive,
co-operative and happy group of orienteers"
- Australian Championships:Finish top 8
- Ambition in orienteering
- To maintain a life-long involvement for myself. To
provide opportunities for talented orienteers to achieve their goals.
Warren Halliday (manager)
- Occupation
- Teacher at Norwood Secondary College. Teaches physical
education, outdoor education and mathematics
- Town
- Diamond Creek
- Family
- Wife-Debra and 2 boys Bryce and Dayne
- Orienteering club
- Bayside Kangaroos
- Favorite Food
- Seafood
- Years in orienteering
- 4 Years
- Football team
- Collingwood
- Pets
- Dog, bird, mouse and fish
- Favorite song/band
- Led Zeppelin-Black Dog
- Nicknames
- Wazza, Waz
- Other sports played
- Golf, badminton, squash, running-fun runs
- Most admired sports person
- Greg Norman and Steve Mongehetti
- Started orienteering
- Attended a PE conference-went to a session run by Peta
on orienteering-1993-started doing Street'O' and then had a go at a bush
event. Still a lot to learn!!
- Favorite terrain/map
- Spur/Gully-Jim Crow
- Disliked terrain
- Gold mining areas with intricate details
- Most/Least memorable map
- Petticoat Gully-An absolute disaster-First time in
this type of terrain-about 3 hours
- Best thing about orienteering
- Challenge-Individually-getting out and seeing
the bush
- Least liked about orienteering
- Frustration of not reading terrain
properly-overshooting controls
- Goals Set
- A.C.T Championships:Finish the course-Improve navigation
- Schools Championships: Photographing the winning Vic Team!!
- Australian Championships: Finish the course-Improve navigation
- Ambition in orienteering
- To get better at reading map/terrain-Do it for
enjoyment only
Return to 1997 teams page.
Return to Australian Schools Championships page.