The Junior Inter-Regionals (JIRC) are annual competitions between the junior squads (M/W14,16,18) of the 3 Home Nation and 9 English Regional Associations.

The 3 Home Nation Associations are:

Scotland (SOA), Wales (WOA), Northern Ireland (NIOA)

The 9 English Regional Associations are:

East Anglia (EAOA), East Midlands (EMOA), North East (NEOA), North West (NWOA), South Central (SCOA) South East (SEOA), South West (SWOA), West Midlands, (WMOA), Yorkshire & Humberside (YHOA) 

The format is an Individual event on a Saturday, followed by Relays on the Sunday.

Where possible, event details and results will be published below. However, the information is always very limited and the team positions are rarely published by the hosting club.

JUNIOR INTER-REGIONALS 24-25 June 2006

BAOC/SOC Bordon Heaths - Full Results Here

What a wonderful weekend. The weather was fab, perhaps a little too hot on the Saturday. Thanks to all the team for their input. 

It was good to see Ciaran Allen and Ben Mitchell make their M14 debut - both putting in strong performances that helped Wales finish with a final overall placing of 6th out of 12 regions.

Bordon Heat was an intricate area with some longer courses in each class than some of the Juniors have experienced, so they all performed well.

Wales fielded two Boys and Girls relay teams with both scoring 87 points to take joint 5th place with WMOA. This must be one of Wales' strongest finishes for relays.

The girls performed very well and had a best ever overall placing of 4th with 181 points. The Boys did well to come home in 7th place with 147 points.

This meant that Wales finished in SIXTH place overall at the end of the 2 days. This was Wales' best result for 10 years.

This gives the Juniors something to aim for next year - to beat Wales' best ever result of 5th in 1996.

Kate Balmond

JUNIOR INTER-REGIONALS 25-26 June 2005

This year, the JIRC's competition was held in Nottingham, with the individual area being held on Carsington Pastures, an open, very runnable area with huge limestone crags towering well above 5 metres in places. Courses were longer than usually expected but with the underfoot terrain, times were fast. The weather was overcast and cloudy as we drove into the assembly field where we were greeted by a herd of cows and after a brief opening ceremony, starts were underway. The individual saw several Welshies in podium position with Rhodri, Anwen and Delyth finishing with 2nd, 2nd and 3rd respectively. Becky and Chris also did well running up in their age groups. Wales ended up a brilliant 6th after the individual.

Accommodation was held in a local high school where we were sharing a gym with the Irish and North-East. After a prize giving at 9:00 it was lights out and bed at 10:30.

Relay day dawned brighter and clear, and the relays were to be held in Robin Hood land, also known as Sherwood Pines. We didn't do as well as we would have liked in the relays with both boys teams mispunching. However, the girls teams coming in 10th and 19th resulting in Wales's finishing 10th overall in the relays.

All-in-all, a great weekend with some superb areas. The Welsh managed to finish 8th overall out of 12 regions and would like to say many thanks to Kate, Anne and Colin, and everyone else who did the ferrying around and organising of the weekend.

JUNIOR INTER-REGIONALS 26-27 June 2004

Full Results Here

JUNIOR INTER-REGIONALS 28-29 June 2003

Cannock Chase, Cannock. GR/003155.  www.walton-chasers.co.uk

What a wonderful performance and effort from all the juniors who took part at JIRCS. For many  it was their first time in a major event running for Wales. The adults were pretty good too... The weather was glorious and our spirits were high.

On the Individual Day: The boys came in 9th place with 61points; the girls again in 9th place with 64 points. Finishing in 9th place overall.

On the Relay Front:  We came a final 6th place in both boys and girls with points of 81 and 75 respectively.   

This brought us in 5th place overall for the Team Relays.

 Overall Results:  The Men came in at joint 6th place with SWOA on 142 points. The Females also came in 6th place on 139 points. SO a very commendable finish of 7th place overall with 281 points.

The following table shows the final regional  positions:

This is probably one of our better results for a while; I like to think that all the effort put into coaching the junior squad over the last few years may now be coming to fruition. All the youngsters have made a determined effort to get fitter and this has been reflected in the results. They are a credit to us all, thank you to all the coaches and parents who have given their time and efforts in supporting the Junior Squad.

Kate Balmond, Junior Squad Team Manager