The Bremerton Orienteering team wrapped up another successful season at the Championships in Point Defiance Park this past weekend. Orienteering is a sport that involves using a map and compass to navigate to specific points in the outdoors. The season and championships had students working through various difficult scenarios, dealing with wet and unpredictable weather, hilly and muddy terrain and courses that had newly fallen trees.

The District’s Orienteering team, which is a part of the Washington Interscholastic Orienteering League, includes students from both Mountain View Middle School and Bremerton High School.

Our Orienteering Team added a MVMS team this year, in addition to the high school Rookie team, a Junior Varsity team, and a Varsity Team. At last week's championships, the Rookie team finished first of 11 teams and the Varsity team finished second of 6 teams--missing first place by just 10 points.

We had a number of students who individually had tremendous success this year. Anakin Petheram finished 1st for the season in the Rookie category. Maynor Pablo Mendoza finished 4th for the season, Adrian Tirador finished 6th and Carlos Torres finished 9th out of 67 first year runners for the season. Bremerton swept the podium at the Championships last weekend, with Maynor Pablo Mendoza, Alex Boyer and Phunaret Kulrat taking 1st through 3rd. Nathan Hinds finished 3rd for both the season and at Championships. Congratulations to all of our Orienteering athletes!