2026 US WOC Team Trials

Saturday & Sunday, May 23-24, 2026

Hosted by Delaware Valley Orienteering Association
in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania general region

Saturday at Rutgers Cook/Douglas Campus – NEW: Red and Blue Sprints are NREs
Sunday at Temple Ambler Campus

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 Not Participating. For more details of the selection process, refer to OUSA and the Team Executive Steering Committee (ESC).

**REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN**. Please read all the information on this page before registering.

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, main address 45 Biel Road West, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
    • NOTE: ALL competitors must sign a waiver issued by Rutgers. We will have copies onsite but lines will be shorter if you print and sign the waiver beforehand and bring it to the event.
  • !!!NOTE–VENUE CHANGE!!! Temple University – Ambler Campus, main address 580 Meetinghouse Road, Ambler, PA 19002

Race Info

The Sprint WOC Team Trials event is (preliminarily) planned as detailed below. NOTE: No spiked shoes permitted on either campus.

Public/Spectators: Note that anyone not trying out for the team (“public”) may also run in most of the same races, immediately after the Team Trialers have finished (up to 2 sprints each day).

Top Day 1 public event finishers (and others at Event Director’s discretion) can run the first round of the Knockout Sprints with the Trialers, 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
  • Format is 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, on even/odd minutes. Non-trialers (Open) will start after all WOC trialers have started, and may choose from any of the following courses:
    • Course 1 – TT-M-21+ & Course 1 Open (NRE)
    • Course 2 – TT-F-21+ & Course 2 Open (NRE)
    • Course 3 Open (beginner-appropriate)
  • See Travel below for information to register a vehicle close to the sprint starts
Day 2: VENUE CHANGE!! Temple University – Ambler Campus, Ambler, Pennsylvania
  • Knockout Sprints (three [3] rounds)
    • Quarterfinals (where the numbers are placings in terms of total time from the Saturday sprints):
      • Seeded start list, based on results (total time) from Saturday sprints, starting with all the Trialers (1st to nth); then Public (1st public finisher will be nth+1 seed, 2nd is nth+2 seed, etc.), with up to 3 slots (if space is available), at Event Director’s discretion. (A Public MP or DNS from Day 1 could still make it ahead of a Public finisher.)
      • If there are fewer than 24 people in the ordered start list in either Men’s or Women’s categories, the remaining start slots will go unfilled.
    • Top 4 Trialers from each heat move on to the SemiFinals (12 total). Heat allocation, based on the seeded start list:
      • 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
      • Public mass start will follow for anyone who doesn’t make it into the 24 seeded starts (men and women will start together)
    • Semifinals:
      • Team Trialers only – no Public race this round
      • Top 2 from each move on the Finals (6 total)
      • Heat allocation, where (QHx-y means the y placed finisher in QHeat x)
        • 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
      • Men and Women race separately
      • Public mass start will follow, on the same course

Registration

Also see the Travel section below for instructions to register vehicles for the campus parking lot(s).

To register for Trials and Public races (or register as a prospective Team member who will not attend), visit this link:
https://eventreg.orienteeringusa.org/eventregister/register/start/dvoa-2026-tt

See who’s already registered:
https://eventreg.orienteeringusa.org/eventregister/reglist/home/dvoa-2026-tt

NOTES ON REGISTRATION
  • TEAM TRIALS ELIGIBILITY: These Team Trials (for the purpose of selecting the National Team to WOC 2026) 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. Orienteering Team.
    • U.S. Team members not attending but petitioning for the WOC Team should register and select not-participating (NP) to indicate their interest, even if they won’t physically be at these Trials races.
  • PUBLIC RACES: Everyone else is welcome to run the public/spectator races (Open classes).
  • Knockout Sprint classes are TT Male, TT Female, Open Male, Open Female. For members of the public, choosing Knockout Sprint enters you in one of the Quarterfinal races (with or following the Trialers, as described above), AND in the Final (after the Trialers).
  • Register by Sunday, May 17: Your age is based on age as of 31 December 2026.
    • ADULTS aged 21 and over: $15 for each regular sprint plus $15 for Knockout, or $40 for the weekend package (2 sprints on Saturday, Knockout on Sunday)
      JUNIORS aged 20 and under: $10 for each regular sprint plus $10 for Knockout, or $25 for the weekend package (3 races as described above)
    • Groups may enter; cost is $2 for each additional person in a group (age 11 and above).
    • Late registration (please email registrar to ensure a map), or day-of registration open to the Public non-trialers, $20 per event, while map supplies last.
    • SI-Air card rental, $5 per day. Standard SI rental available at no extra charge.
Course and Class Definitions:
  • Saturday Sprints will include three (3) courses for each start window. Course 1 is the longest sprint (Classes include M-21+ Team Trials and Open); Course 2 is next longest (F-21+ Team Trials and Open); Course 3 will be the shortest and suitable for beginners.
    • NOTE: ALL competitors must sign a waiver issued by Rutgers. We will have copies onsite but lines will be shorter if you print and sign the waiver beforehand and bring it to the event.
    • Courses 1 and 2 are now National Ranking Events and competitors will be awarded ranking points in those classes. (Course 3 is not ranked.)
  • Sunday’s Knockout Sprint classes are M-21+ Team Trials, F-21+ Team Trials, Open-Male, Open-Female

Travel

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
    • Rutgers Map: Jon Campbell
  • Map Printing and Layout: Fred Kreusi
  • 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

Acknowledgements

  • Thank you to Rutgers Cook/Douglass for welcoming us to their campus on Saturday!
  • Thank you to Antoni DiBruno and the Temple University Ambler campus for their welcome on Sunday

Closest Medical Facilities

Saturday, May 23
  • Urgent Care:
    • AFC Urgent Care, 352 Ryders Lane, East Brunswick, NJ; (732) 638-1990. Open Saturday 8am-8pm
    • Brunswick Urgent Care, 641 NJ 18, East Brunswick, NJ; (732) 955-6765. Open Saturday 8am-9pm
  • Hospitals:
    • Robert John Wood University Hospital, 1 RWJohnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ (off French St, NJ 27)
    • St Peters University Hospital, 254 Easton Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ
Sunday, May 24
  • Urgent Care:
    • Live Urgent Care, 2019 Welsh Road, Dresher, PA; (215) 966-3040. Open Sunday 8am-4pm
    • AFC Urgent Care Willow Grove, 2848 West Moreland Road, Willow Grove, PA; (215) 495-5455. Open Sunday 8am-5pm
  • Hospital:
    • The Horsham Clinic, 722 East Butler Pike, Ambler, PA; (21) 643-7800.

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