2025 Junior Nationals Championships & North Texas Spring-O
Date: Sat.-Sun., Mar. 22-23, 2025
Location: Sid Richardson Scout Ranch (SR2), Bridgeport, TX (Map)
NTOA is pleased to once again host the Junior National Orienteering Championships, along with a Texas-sized Spring-O National event that is open to all! Join us at Sid Richardson Scout Ranch (aka, SR2) to compete and have fun on a brand-new map by Jonathon Campbell (NEOC). We'll be releasing more info over the coming months.
(5/31) This event will also be the Air Force JROTC National Championships.
Format: All races are nationally sanctioned by Orienteering USA.
Fri., March 21: Model event and Zig-Zag O (tentative)
Sat.-Sun., March 22-23: Two-day Classic and Zig-Zag O (tentative)
Meet Officials:
Meet Director: Marc McCauley
Course Setter: Ralph Courtney
Course Consultant: Jonathon Campbell
Registrar: Mary Lynn Genovesi
Vetter: Tom Carr
Courses and classes
Junior Nationals
The Junior Nationals includes both the Interscholastic and Intercollegiate championship competitions. See full courses and classes required for the Junior Nationals in the OUSA Rules of Competition, starting at section A.34.
High-level class overview -- see OUSA Rules for full eligibility requirements, scoring rules and other definitions:
Interscholastics:
Interscholastic competition is an individual point-to-point format competition for eligible K-12 students. Students compete for individual awards and can also compete as teams for team awards.
Individual classes (School or Club):
- Interscholastic Varsity Female: compete on the brown course and are in any grade through 12.
- Interscholastic Junior Varsity Female: orange course, any grade through 12.
- Interscholastic Varsity Male: green course, any grade through 12.
- Interscholastic Junior Varsity Male: orange course, any grade through 12.
- Interscholastic Intermediate Female: yellow course, any grade through 9.
- Interscholastic Intermediate Male: yellow course, any grade through 9.
- Interscholastic Primary Female: white course, any grade through 6.
- Interscholastic Primary Male: white course, any grade through 6.
Team classes:
- Interscholastic School Varsity, Interscholastic School Junior Varsity, Interscholastic School Intermediate, Interscholastic School Primary
- Interscholastic Club Varsity, Interscholastic Club Junior Varsity, Interscholastic Club Intermediate, Interscholastic Club Primary
Additional JROTC classes:
Individual: JROTC Interscholastic Varsity Female, JROTC Interscholastic Varsity Male, JROTC Interscholastic Junior Varsity Female, JROTC Interscholastic Junior Varsity Male
Team: JROTC Varsity, JROTC Junior Varsity
intercollegiates:
To be eligible to compete in an Intercollegiate class the competitor must be a full-time college or university student. (Undergraduate or graduate as defined by the college or university)
Individual Classes/Courses:
Intercollegiate Varsity Female/Green, Intercollegiate Varsity Male/Red, Intercollegiate Junior Varsity Female/Orange, Intercollegiate Junior Varsity Male/Orange
Team classes: Intercollegiate School Varsity, Intercollegiate School Junior Varsity, Intercollegiate Club Varsity
North Texas Spring-O
North Texas Spring-O 2025 will be a nationally ranked event (formerly known as "A" events) open to everyone.
- All standard OUSA competitive courses and classes will be offered. Competitors MUST pre-register at OUSA Event Register
- Recreational courses for white, yellow, orange, brown and green will be offered. (No red or blue rec courses.) You can pre-register (appreciated, for map counts) or sign up day of event.
Meet and activity fees
Competitors: Registration will be on OUSA Event Register (link to be provided about 6 months before the event).
- Juniors: $25/day; $2 OUSA discount (membership is required for championship event)
- Adults: $55/day; $4 OUSA discount (membership optional)
- Standard registration deadline: Feb. 28, 2025; late registration March 1-10: $10 fee/day
- NO day-of-event registration for Junior Nationals or North Texas Spring-O
Recreational participants: Registration will be on ntoa.com
- Rec individuals: $10/person per day
- Rec teams: $20 for first two people, $10/extra team member
- Day-of-race event permitted
All
- Model maps: $5 pre-purchase, $6 at the event
- Saturday night dinner at SR2: TBD -- as soon as we have final prices, we'll open registration!
- Saturday night post-dinner square dancing: FREE! Open to all, no dinner ticket required.
- Event t-shirts: $15-$20
Directions
Google Maps estimates travel time from DFW International Airport to the SR2 entrance gate at about 1 hour, 15 minutes (74 miles/120 km). Note that it's about 5 miles (8 km) from the gate to the Event HQ on occasionally rough dirt roads. Plan on 15-20 minutes to arrive at Main Camp.
Street address: Boy Scout Road, Bridgeport, TX 76426