Young Orienteer of the Year 2021 - Michael Bishenden - runner up
It was announced at the Scottish Champs event recently that Michael was runner up in the SOA Young Orienteer of the Year 2021. Below is the text of the nomination from the SOA website:
Michael’s contribution to orienteering has been significant and simply outstanding. Coming from a non-orienteering family, he has shown the utmost determination and commitment towards Moravian Orienteers and in promoting orienteering within the wider community. At all times, he has conducted himself in a friendly, positive and professional manner and without fuss or compliant. Within the Club, he is always one of the first juniors to volunteer to help at events and he has shown a consistent and passionate appetite and desire to do more. He willingly completed the Event Safety Workshop – being described as an ambassador of Moravian by the instructor in the process – and has set out and planned training courses during ‘lockdown’ for the benefit of Club members. He has also planned two local events, one at night and one for a recent Saturday league event and been eager to learn and develop his planning skills in the process. In addition, he has been an active participant with Forres Active Schools in 2021 and 2022, where he has regularly helped school age children to learn the orienteering basics through friendly advice, support and setting out simple games. Moreover, during this year’s Easter holidays, he selflessly gave his own time to plan and set out courses at Grant Park in Forres for an Active Schools ‘come and try it’ session for families and sought volunteers within Moravian to help at the event by sending emails and coordinating the responses.
Well done Michael!
