If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: Being late for Chamber Choir
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: Meet Simona Aebersold, get a picture with Simona Aebersold, be an astronaut
If you didn’t need money, what would you do: Live on the International Space Station. (Not doing anything important, just tagging along for the ride)
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: Don’t be afraid to take the easy route choice – Sophie Harrison 2018
What is your worst Orienteering memory: Crying alone in Hydrabad forest, 2017 JWOC trials
What is your best Orienteering memory: 2015 AUS schools champs sprint
What Orienteer do you most relate to: Marina Comeskey
What food really gets you Hungary: The muesli bar I always forget to pack for between school and training
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: To be in the same time zone as Simona Aebersold
What drives your Hungar(y) for success: Marisol Hunter’s pink and orange socks
Jenna Tidswell
If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: Probably some school work
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: To travel the world, Orienteer all over the world, Swim with sharks
If you didn’t need money, what would you do: Travel the world
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: If you want something, go get it
What is your worst Orienteering memory: Whenever I run past cows
What is your best Orienteering memory: Orienteering in Finland
What Orienteer do you most relate to: Will Tidswell
What food really gets you Hungary: Watermelon
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: Having the fastest cleanest run of my life
What drives your Hungar(y) for success: My own drive to be successful
Katie Cory-Wright
If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: Probably eating something unhealthy, or watching pointless YouTube videos.
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: Go to Africa, Party with the cast of Geordie shore in New Castle, be a judge at the Tiramisu World Cup
If you didn’t need money, what would you do: Never stop travelling
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: Don’t sweat the small stuff, or the big stuff.
What is your worst Orienteering memory: Making a 10 minute mistake at national schools 2014 and not making the schools team
What is your best Orienteering memory: The whole of JWOC 2017
What Orienteer do you most relate to: My mum – Can navigate but can’t run fast
What food really gets you Hungary: Anything you’d find in a bakery
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: Event 6 😉 Nah jokes, probably running in some unfamiliar/unusual terrain
What drives your Hungar(y) for success: The amazing experiences I’ve had in orienteering so far
Lara Molloy
If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: At the moment probably exploring some new city!
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: To be honest I only have one thing on my bucket list, fly first class
If you didn’t need money, what would you do: Finish my bucket list, travel the world competing in orienteering events and buying everything I wanted to
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: Don’t get lost
What is your worst Orienteering memory: Getting to the point I had pretty much no idea where I was and deciding I might as well just use the safety bearing… at nationals long distance this year…
What is your best Orienteering memory: My first ever event, when Lizzie (Ingham) was sent out to run the yellow so I didn’t win
What Orienteer do you most relate to: My sister
What food really gets you Hungary: Ice cream on a hot day
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: Satisfyingly clean races, haven’t had one for a while
What drives your Hungar(y) for success: Being competitive and wanting to win
Marisol Hunter
If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: Eating way too many carbs for lunch at my uni residential hall #fresher five
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: Invent a viable way of generating energy from nuclear fusion, Reverse global warming, Reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission
What is your worst Orienteering memory: Getting tragically lost at camp champs on my first ever junior camp
What is your best Orienteering memory: AUS Champs in Ballarat
What Orienteer do you most relate to: Briana Steven. She’s a cool kid, a real tidy tortilla
What food really gets you Hungary: Pasta. Also Whittaker’s sea salt and caramel chocolate
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: The lack of hills
What drives your Hungar(y) for success: The excitement of having watched JWOC every year for ages, but now instead of sitting at home watching GPS-tracked dots move across a map, I’ll actually be there competing
Meghan Drew
If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: I would be found at Auckland University, doing engineering work
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: 1. Travel 2. Get my engineering degree 3. Get a job that I love
If you didn’t need money, what would you do: I would do a lot of travel and pursue sport and music
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: To take one day at a time and enjoy it while I can
What is your worst Orienteering memory: Almost braking my ankle in junior camp sprint champs 2015
What is your best Orienteering memory: Australian sprint Champs 2017, awesome race and great vibe with the team
What Orienteer do you most relate to: I have no clue
What food really gets you Hungary: Chocolate
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: To run in new terrain and meet some new people
What drives your Hungar(y) for success: The opportunity to do well against the best of the best
Cameron deL’lsle
If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: Pm: Eating a well-balanced healthy meal complete with wholegrains and nutritious salad greens. Am: Amidst 9.5 hours of sleep, necessary for optimal muscle repair and maximal brain function
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: 1. Make a bucket list, 2. Schedule a time to make a bucket list, 3. Make it out of Kecskemet alive
If you didn’t need money, what would you do: Find the best orienteering terrain in Scandinavia and live on it. Or maybe Switzerland
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: Matt Ogden: “off the line, losing time”
What is your worst Orienteering memory: 45min control in Woodhill on a course that took me 2.5 hours
What is your best Orienteering memory: Hard choice between AUSchamps 2013, my first JWOC (especially the middle qual) and last stage Oringen 2017
What Orienteer do you most relate to: Genetically my mum or dad. Spiritually someone like Daniel Hubmann
What food really gets you Hungary: 800HUF kebabs from Kiskoros
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: Hungary for success of course
What drives your Hungar(y) for success: Whatever I ate last (a banana in this case)
Callum Hill
If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: According to my lecture schedule, somewhere in the Otago medical school, but within that it’s probably a 50/50 chance between the library and the cafeteria
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: Starting with the most reasonable to the least: I really want to do Godzone one day, I would love to run the length of New Zealand, and I would be thrilled to go to space!
If you didn’t need money, what would you do: I would probably try to see how many national parks I could explore across the world before I got bored
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: “If you never did you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.”- Dr Seuss
What is your worst Orienteering memory: Getting lost, running 2km off the map and being herded back to the car park by some scary looking cows
What is your best Orienteering memory: Has to be touring Australia as part of the secondary schools team
What Orienteer do you most relate to: Flynn Hill – He’s not very good but who can you relate to more than your twin?
What food really gets you Hungary: Mixed lamb and chicken kebab snack pack with sweet chilli, BBQ and yoghurt garlic sauce and extra cheese
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: he long distance, something about 15km through Hungarian scrub under the European sun just sounds riveting
What drives your Hungar(y) for success: The places we go. To be in the zone, racing with all systems go, in front of some stunning backdrops is a feeling that you really just can’t beat
Daniel Monckton
If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: At the moment probably scootering around picking orders at fast pace at Mighty Ape but soon to be off travelling Europe
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: Run on some Scandinavian O maps, go skydiving, become bilingual
If you didn’t need money, what would you do: Travel all around Europe, the USA and the world
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: “You can’t MP if you get all the controls.”
What is your worst Orienteering memory: Being chased by cows during a Night-O
What is your best Orienteering memory: Representing NZ in Australia twice in 2015 and 2017, and spectating WOC in Scotland in 2015
What Orienteer do you most relate to: Beast Joe Lynch
What food really gets you Hungary: Pizza
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: A clean race at full speed, meet new people and race some wild competition
What drives your Hungar(y) for success: The desire to have a perfect race with no errors at full speed
Joseph Lynch
If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: Most likely sleeping in my chemistry lecture
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: Visit Antarctica, go to Iceland, but most importantly become sponsored by Str8
If you didn’t need money, what would you do: Be a travelling photographer
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: Straight is great
What is your worst Orienteering memory: Losing the lead in Aus Champs Relay for Stephen and Kurtis on the very last leg
What is your best Orienteering memory: Senior boys danger-swigging our way to win the Aus Schools 2017 Relay
What Orienteer do you most relate to: The legendary Kurtis Shuker, splits and singlets all the way
What food really gets you Hungary: Love me some curry on a cold day
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: D-Money’s banging remixes and a chance to race some of the Scandis
What drives your Hungar(y) for success: All that sweet sweet prize money orienteering is known for
Max Griffiths
If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: Sitting confused through a math lecture wishing I was out running
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: Visit every continent, go scuba diving, finish the Coast2Coast 1-day competition
If you didn’t need money, what would you do: Continue living life and loving to travel, but always in business class
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: There’s no harm in ever asking for something, the worse that can happen is they’ll say no, and you’ll be the same as if you never asked
What is your worst Orienteering memory: Finishing Oceania Schools Middle, with a TV camera capturing the whole thing
What is your best Orienteering memory: Putting on NZ gear and orienteering for the first time for NZ
What Orienteer do you most relate to: Matt Ogden
What food really gets you Hungary: Nacho’s
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: The experience of top level junior world orienteering and representing my country on a world stage
What drives your Hungar(y) for success: The experiences and opportunities it opens up
Will Tidswell
If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: Sitting in class, solving maths problems
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: I don’t have a bucket list currently however, probably; 1) Go into SPACE, 2) Travel all around the world, 3) Attend JWOC
If you didn’t need money, what would you do: Complete my bucket list
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: Don’t let small-term things get in the way of long-term goals
What is your worst Orienteering memory: Being too dehydrated in a competition and having to walk the rest of the course
What is your best Orienteering memory: Being selected for JWOC
What Orienteer do you most relate to: Jenna
What food really gets you Hungary: The classic banana
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: The experience and running the best race I can possibly run
What drives your Hungar(y) for success: I want to challenge myself and be the best that I can be, which means trying to succeed in everything I do
Devon Beckman (Coach)
If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: Probably going across the road to get a coffee
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: Ride the Alps, Pyrenees, French Riviera and Flandrian Cobbles; own property in more than one country (and still eat avo on toast); co-organize a Sprint the Bay in Europe
If you didn’t need money, what would you do: Organize the best events in the world
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: “Always be on your toes like a midget in a urinal” – Duncan Morrison
What is your worst Orienteering memory: JWOC 2017 Long Distance. Literally don’t remember the last 30 mins of the race
What is your best Orienteering memory: Stage 5 – SOW 2016. Running on the top of a mountain, in a thunderstorm, slicing my leg open and abandoning race with my leg soaked in blood. But the views were sick and the Swiss painkillers were epic
What Orienteer do you most relate to: Thierry (washed up elite turned national team coach)
What food really gets you Hungary: Coffee
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: Living vicariously through the athletes
What drives your Hungar(y) for success: Overwhelming pressure from friends and family
Karen Beckman (Manager)
If we were to meet you at 12:30 on a Thursday, what would you be doing: Day off work, lunch/coffee after long walk with my dog Gus
What are the top 3 things on your bucket list: Go to the Olympics as a spectator; Paris 2024, Intrepid Travel; South America, learn another language – by living in another country.
If you didn’t need money, what would you do: Create a non-profit organisation & definitely always travel first class
What is the best piece of advice someone has ever given you: Life is short, time is fast, no replay, no rewind, so enjoy
What is your worst Orienteering memory: Orienteering at Osgiliath, it was so green & I was out of my depth, felt like I was in Lord of the Rings and Gollum was going to jump out. Finished the course though.
What is your best Orienteering memory: Best memories is watching any of my family compete in this sport that has given our family great opportunities/experiences.
What Orienteer do you most relate to: Definitely the nicest Orienteer: Swiss Simone Niggli-Luder, she is pretty good at Orienteering too.
What food really gets you Hungary: Thai food
What are you most Hungary for at JWOC: Surviving the JWOC party
As of 17 March 2020, Orienteering Wellington and Orienteering NZ have agreed to postpone the NZ National Orienteering Championships 2020 due to the developing situation with COVID-19. No future date for this event has been determined yet. A full refund will be offered to all who have registered to date.
