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Latest changes

The draft (v.1) of the Strategic Plan for 2010-2014 has been posted. Please read and provide feedback to the board by March 1, 2010.

The next meeting of the Board of Directors will take place at the Flying Pig A-meet, Saturday, April 10 near Cincinnati, Ohio.

Other updates:

Board meeting summaries are now in one place.

The official USOF office contact information is:

Glen Schorr, Executive Director
United States Orienteering Federation
P.O. Box 505
Riderwood, Maryland 21139

Phone: (410) 802-1125
E-mail: glen_schorr [at] usorienteer [dot] org

Robin Shannonhouse is Director of Membership and Accounting Services. Any membership applications, membership queries, sanctioning fees, charter fees, other amounts payable to the federation, and funding or reimbursement requests, should continue to go to her (be sure any funding requests are approved by the appropriate fund manager). Please leave this address on any USOF membership forms.

Robin Shannonhouse
Director of Membership and Accounting Services
United States Orienteering Federation
P.O. Box 1444
Forest Park, Georgia 30298

Phone: (404) 363-2110
E-mail: USOF [at] comcast [dot] net

last update 7 February 2010

 Mission Statement and Bylaws

Our mission is to:

  1. Provide orienteering as a viable and attractive recreation choice for US outdoors enthusiasts.
  2. Promote orienteering for education, personal development, and environmental awareness.
  3. Improve the competitive performance of US orienteering athletes to world-class levels.

 USOF Official Contacts

The official USOF office contact information is:

Glen Schorr, Executive Director
United States Orienteering Federation
P.O. Box 505
Riderwood, Maryland 21139

Phone: (410) 802-1125
E-mail: glen_schorr [at] usorienteer [dot] org

Robin Shannonhouse is Director of Membership and Accounting Services. Any membership applications, membership queries, sanctioning fees, charter fees, other amounts payable to the federation, and funding or reimbursement requests, should continue to go to her (be sure any funding requests are approved by the appropriate fund manager). Please leave this address on any USOF membership forms.

Robin Shannonhouse
Director of Membership and Accounting Services
United States Orienteering Federation
P.O. Box 1444
Forest Park, Georgia 30298

Phone: (404) 363-2110
E-mail: USOF [at] comcast [dot] net

 USOF History
Beginning in 1967 –
     Harald Wibye of Norway began public orienteering in the United States. Ever since his first event on November 5, 1967, at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, the Delaware Valley Orienteering Association — as his group became known — has held events regularly. In 1992 they became the largest club in the U.S. with over 600 members. Caroline and Kent Ringo have provided leadership for DVOA since 1968. During his two-year stay in North America, Wibye also founded the first Canadian orienteering club in Montreal, produced the first two modern-color orienteering maps on the continent, and helped orienteers in a dozen states. Today he is a computer consultant in Moss, Norway, where he regularly maneuvers his six and a half foot frame gracefully through the woods of Norway, map in hand.
     Even earlier, apparently in the summer of 1967, the U.S. Marine Corps Physical Fitness Academy at Quantico, Virginia, began orienteering activities under assistant director Jim "Yogi" Hardin.
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 USOF Champions Past and Present
     US orienteers compete for championships each calendar year in a number of different disciplines. View the winners of each class under the following disciplines:

     There are also champions named in Sprint, Middle Distance, Ultra Long and Rogaine events. Compilations of these champions have not yet been assembled (any volunteers?).
     In even-numbered years, the US and Canada alternately host the North American Orienteering Championships, the most recent of which took place in central New York State in September 2008. The next NAOC will be hosted by Canada in early July, 2010, in Cranbrook, British Columbia.

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