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Junior
development
This page list resources to assist with the development of
more junior orienteers within the sport. Suggestions for content
are most welcome.
2008
National Junior Training Camp
August 17 - 20, 2008
Saint John, New Brunswick
Sass Peepre was a founding Father of orienteering in Canada in the
1960’s and 70’s and this camp is organized in his honour in conjunction
with the Canadian Orienteering Championships on an annual basis by a
team of volunteers. The camp is partially subsidized by the Sass Peepre
Fund, a fund held in trust by the Canadian Orienteering Federation for
the purpose of supporting leadership of junior orienteers.
The camp is suitable for all levels of junior orienteers (age 10-20) who
wish to improve their skills. Camp participants generally perform
extremely well at the Canadian Championships held 1-2 days after the
camp. National Team members and parents form our team of volunteers.
More information about the 2008 camp is
here.
Idea
Exchange
Do you have a junior development idea that works well for your
club? Email the COF and we'll include it here.
- A fantastic
resource for junior orienteers in North America is the
TheWaterStop.
- Calgary
-
Here
is the web page of the Foothills Wanderers Orienteering
Club's junior program. Included is a great little video clip
of what junior orienteers like about the sport.
- Ottawa
- Visit
here
for info about for the Ottawa Orienteering Club's new junior
program.
- Here is a
publication called Long Term Athlete Development - a
fantastic resource.
The
paper describes a 7-stage Canadian model of Long-Term
Athlete Development (LTAD), a training, competition, and
recovery program based on developmental age — the maturation
level of an individual — rather than chronological age.
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Yes Mag is a Canadian children's science magazine. In 2006 they
did a theme issue on cartography and included a two page,
comic-style
story about orienteering. The story won an award from the
Association of Educational Publishers in the US. Check it out
here - it's
really good! Orienteering clubs are welcome to use to the pdf.
Please include a link to Yes Mag (www.yesmag.ca)
if you are putting it on your website.
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