Saturday & Sunday, May 23-24, 2026
Hosted by Delaware Valley Orienteering Association
in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania general region
The 2026 US Team Trials to select the athletes to represent TeamUSA at the World Sprint Orienteering Championships in Genova, Italy, will be conducted in a multiple (2-5) event format.
In addition to this Team Trials, the selection committee will also entertain petitions for athletes who are unable to attend a trials event but who wish to be considered. For more details of the selection process, refer to OUSA and the ESC.
This page will serve as the Event Bulletin, and additional information will be added as we approach the race date.
Be sure to check back for updates.
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Embargos
The entirety of the following parks/campuses are off-limits to all persons planning to try out for the US WOC Team, unless you are an active student on one of these campuses:
- Rutgers University – Cook/Douglass Campus
- Bucks County Community College
Race Info
The Sprint WOC Team Trials event is (preliminarily) planned as:
Day 1:
- Two (2) Individual-start Sprints, about 2-3 hours apart
- At Rutgers – Cook/Douglass Campus near New Brunswick, New Jersey
Day 2:
- Knockout Sprints (three [3] rounds)
- At Bucks County Community College near Newtown, Pennsylvania
Registration
To be opened following confirmation of sites.
Will include public races, starting separately from the Trials; with possible participation in the early rounds of the Knockout Sprint as needed to fill the ranks.
Tentatively:
- Both of the Day 1 Sprints will be open to non-Trialers, with a gap after all the Trialers have started.
- For the Knockout Sprints day:
- Top non-Trials finishers from Day 1, and perhaps others at Event Director’s discretion, will join the Trialers for the 1st round on Day 2 to fill the planned 24-each start groups
- Rounds 2 and 3 will be limited to Trialers
- After Round 3, all non-Trials entrants will be welcome to run the Round 3 course.
Travel & Lodging
Information about event sites and routes to access them to come.
Course Setter Notes
- To be added.
Mapping Notes
- Map Scale: 1:3000 or 1:4000
- Contour Interval: 2.5m
- To be added
Volunteers
- Event Director: Wyatt Riley
- Course Setters: Yury Tambasov & Alexei Azarov
- Mapping Consultant: Sam Kolins
- Map Updates: Yury, Alexei & Sam
- Permissions Coordinator: Mary Frank & Kathy Urban
- Registrar: Sandy Fillebrown (being confirmed) / Joey McGarvey backup
- Start Crew: Joey McGarvey
- Finish / Timing: Sandy Fillebrown
- Website: Janet Tryson