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 (6-11 July), 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. Those who are petitioning should follow the registration process to indicate their interest and select NC. 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 detailed below.
Spectators: Note that anyone not trying out for the team (“spectators”) may also run in any or all of the races after the Team Trialers have finished. Also note that top Day 1 public event finishers (and others at event director discretion) can likely run the first round of the Knockout Sprints with the Trialers (pending ESC approval), and the final round of the Knockout Sprints after the Trials competitors finish.
- No quarantine for Saturday sprints; some Team Trialer isolation may be needed for Knockout Sprints on Sunday
- A map, available at check-in, will show parking / check-in / warm-up area, and streamers to start (< 1 km; TBA)
- Competitors must stay in the warm-up / parking area except when racing
Day 1: Rutgers-Cook/Douglas Campus, near New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Two (2) Individual-start Sprints, about 2-3 hours apart
- For each start window, three courses will be available. WOC Trialers (TT) will run first, with men and women alternating start times. Non-trialers (Open) will start after all WOC trialers have started, on any of the following courses:
- Course 1 – TT-M-21+ & Course 1 Open
- Course 2 – TT-F-21+ & Course 2 Open
- Course 3 Open (beginner-appropriate)
Day 2: Bucks County Community College near Newtown, Pennsylvania
- Knockout Sprints (three [3] rounds)
- Quarterfinals (where the numbers are placings in terms of total time from the Saturday sprints). Depending on the number of entries, this round might include only the top 18 vs. top 24. If there are 24, the following is the procedure:
- Top 4 from each heat move on to the SemiFinals (12 total)
- QHeat 1: 1,6,7,12,13,18,19,24
- QHeat 2: 2,5,8,11,14,17,20,23
- QHeat 3: 3,4,9,10,15,16,21,22
- Semifinals (where QHx – y means the y place finisher in quarterfinal heat x)
- Top 2 from each move on the Finals (6 total)
- SemiHeat 1: QH1 – 1, QH2 – 2, QH3 – 3, QH1 – 4
- SemiHeat 2: QH2 – 1, QH3 – 2, QH1 – 3, QH2 – 4
- SemiHeat 3: QH3 – 1, QH1 – 2, QH2 – 3, QH3 – 4
- Finals: 6 people; top 2 from each Semifinal
Registration
To be opened following confirmation of sites.
NOTES:
- ELIGIBILITY: The Trials are open to anyone who is a current OUSA member AND has a U.S. Passport (or is in the process of getting one and will have it before ). You do not need to be a current U.S. Orienteering Team member to be considered for the Team Trials. If you are chosen for the U.S. WOC Team, you will be added to the U.S. Team.
- U.S. Team members not attending but petitioning for the WOC Team should register non-competitive (NC) to indicate their interest, even if they won’t physically be at these Trials races.
- Knockout Sprint registration will be a simple Yes/No. If you are eligible to run against Trialers in the Knockout Sprints based on your Saturday time and plan to be there for both days, be sure you’ve checked Yes for the Knockout Sprint.
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:
- Register by Sunday, May 17:
- $15 per sprint, or $40 for the weekend (2 sprints on Saturday, Knockout on Sunday)
- Late registration (email to registrar) or day-of registration for non-trialers, $20 per event
- 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 be added.
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
- Control Setup Helpers: Anders Ryerson
- Mapping Consultant: Sam Kolins, Petr Hartman
- Map Updates: Yury, Alexei & Sam
- Permissions Coordinator: Mary Frank & Kathy Urban
- Registrar: Sandy Fillebrown
- Start Crew: Joey McGarvey
- Finish / Timing: Sandy Fillebrown
- Website: Janet Tryson
- Where needed:
- Andrew Fisher
- Michele Fisher
Closest Medical Facilities
Saturday, May 23
- AFC Urgent Care, 2873 S. Eagle Rd., Newtown, PA; (267) 364-6477. Open Saturday 8am-6pm
- St. Mary Medical Center Emergency Department, 1201 Langhorne-Newtown Rd, Langhorne, PA
Sunday, May 24
- AFC Urgent Care, 352 Ryders Ln, East Brunswick, NJ; (732) 638-1990. Open Sunday 8am-8pm
- Brunswick Urgent Care, 641 NJ 18, East Brunswick, NJ; (732) 955-6765. Open Sunday 8am-5pm
- Robert John Wood University Hospital, 1 RWJohnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ (off French St, NJ 27)
- St Peters University Hospital, 254 Easton Ave., New Brunswick, NJ