2012 Florida Orienteering Championships

and Bubba Goat Long Distance Race

Lake Louisa State Park

Florida

Lake Louisa State Park normally belongs to the wildlife . ……

December 8-9, 2012

Orienteers Were

Welcomed To

Lake Louisa

State Park

We came from many countries

Canada Finland Australia

Brazil

USA

and Great Britain

100 entries for the FLO Champs105 JROTC entries40 entries for the Goat events

Mike Minium OCIN

Team Canyoneros

Examples of two Florida Champs coursesYellow (novice) on leftBlue (advanced) on right

Orienteers in Action

Nick Barrable of

Great Britain

Overall Winner of the 9km Blue Course

Sarah-Jane Gaffney of Great BritainOverall winner of the 8km Red Course

Donna Fluegel editor of Orienteering North America instructs on the Green course

Winter Park JROTC ran a great event for over 100 cadets

Some of the FLO Manatee Medal

winnersTrish Strat

David ‘Dash’ Ashley

Tracy Acuff &

Heidi Onkst

Start of the Bubba Goat Race

They’re Off!

Bubba Goat participants ran a handicap preliminary Score ‘O’ section (below) before changing maps for the main event. Some participants due to age, gender and orienteering experience got to leave out some controls of the preliminary section.First Overall: Nick Barrable of Great Britain in 1:37:40

The Mini Goat participants start out

The ‘Mini-Goat’ Race won by Auri and

Fabiana Copetti of Brazil

The vegetation took its toll on some but everyone completed their course …… ….. eventually

David Onkst

James Nici

Vicki Bishop Donna

FluegelLeigh Thomas

2012 Bubba Goat

Orienteering

Lake Louisa State Park

Finisher

Thank you to the staff and

inhabitants of

Lake Louisa State Park