Policy on Juniors attending senior events

[mharky]

The policy does not set out to prevent juniors being selected for senior competitions...

Selection of a junior athlete for a senior competition should be by exception only, with preference given to those of the right age class.

[AndyO]

SOA Policy wrote:

Selection of a junior athlete for a senior competition should be by exception only

and as Bill himself noted earlier:

Following BOF rules tradition, there are shoulds and musts in the policy, so it doesn't really stop anything happening.

Sounds fair enough to me - and we are indeed fortunate that we do have some exceptional juniors around

[Gross]

I think it is a very responsible policy, and Bill and the others who helped in preparing it are to be congratulated.

It is indeed a reasonable policy & but it interesting to note that no-one (anyone?) has commented on the reason I started this thread in the first place which was the interesting fact that government & social policy now plays a part in determining who can / can't be selected. So we as orienteers can't control that policy so orienteering is not 100% in control of it's selection policy... and the government says funding is based on results etc etc... Interesting

[AndyO]

Gross

That's just the world we live in, sadly, but if the sport is pro-active and puts in place reasonable precautions, we can retain a measure of control for ourselves.