The Brag board

Thanks everyone who came to our Fall trial! What a fantastic weekend! Some of the highlights: smiling and happy competitors everywhere (both two and four legged), awesome judge Karin Bell, plenty of fun and challenging courses, AWESOME Yappy Hour cookout on Saturday night, birthday cake for November birthdays, and a special appearance by the rock band KISS to deliver some birthday cheer!!

The weekend started with a wonderful handling seminar conducted by Debi Hutchinson. All participants had a blast, learned some great new stuff, laughed and had a super time. Thank you Debi for sharing your knowledge, experience, wit, and enthusiasm. We definitely will bring Debi back for more great insights!

Karin Bell was a fantastic judge. So many competitors commented on how positive and pleasant Karin was and how she helped them enjoy the trial. Thanks Karin for the fun courses and we look forward to seeing you again sometime!

Happy Birthday to trial competitors Brandy Walters, Cathie Cage, Kari Koulmentas, and Nicole Bailey! We celebrated their November birthdays on Saturday with a cool cake. In addition, KISS made a special appearance to personally wish Nicole a very special birthday!! LOL

Thanks also to everyone who helped make the trial go by working in the ring, lending a hand when needed, or contributing yummy food to Yappy Hour. Special thanks to chief course builder Tom Moloney-Harmon, Chris Chapman & Diana Deadrick for coordinating Trial Hospitality, Rita Phoenix for letting us host trials at her wonderful site, Debi Hutchinson for driving the judge to/from the hotel each night, and to Nicole Davilli for all the work she did in her first ever trial.

Yappy Hour cookout was again a huge success on Saturday evening. Thanks to Don Chapman for coming down and grilling food and to Sam Lietz for bringing the fire pit. A great way to end a trial day with good food, drinks, and lots of laughs!

Don’t forget to check out the great trial pics from Linda Anderson (http://cander9267.zenfolio.com) and Mark Vandenwauver (http://markvandenwauverphoto.smugmug.com/Animals) !

Lastly, here’s a list of cool stuff that people did and put on the Brag Board:

Nicole Bailey & Luxx: Versatility NATCH3, 2 Elite Weavers Qs in one weekend (woot!!)
Chris Chapman & Chelsea: Elite Versatility Award, 2500 Lifetime Points Award, Elite Outstanding Touch-n-Go title, Elite Weavers and miraculous & totally unbelievable Q in Elite Chances
Patty Kimball & Kori: Open Triple Superior, Open Superior Versatility, Open All-Around, 2500 Lifetime Points Awards, Open Superior Chances & Elite Hoopers titles
Anna Macanga & Josey: Novice Versatility Award
Wes Mollard & Tadgh: Novice Versatility Award, Open Weavers & Novice Tunnelers titles
Brandy Walters & Angel: Open Regular & Novice Hoopers titles
Brandy Walters & Whisper: Open Jumpers, Ellite Tunnelers & Elite Weavers titles
Cathy Wyatt & Rosie: Open Regular title (and Rosie ignored the cat and got a Q)
Cathy Wyatt & Tobie: Elite Regular & Elite Jumpers titles
Clayton & Cathie Cage: 20pt Elite Tunnelers Q with an 8.06 YPS!! (Damn freak dog!!)
Janet Crist & Harmony: 1st Q ever
Jayne Secor & Mira: 1st Regular Q and 1st title ever in Novice Tunnelers
Kari Koulmentas & Darwin: Novice Tunnelers title
Lauren Vaughn & Dazzle: Dazzle’s fist title – Novice Hoopers
Linda Anderson & Ezri: Open Superior Tunnelers & Open Outstanding Weavers titles
Mariah Mordecai & Aspen: 1st Elite Chances Q
Sam Lietz & Schatzi: Elite Weavers title
Sarah Fix & Fire: 15pt Elite Jumpers Q
Sarah Fix & Jinks: debut and 1st Q ever
Stephanie Reitz & Seamus: Novice Outstanding Hoopers & Novice Outstanding Tunnelers titles 

Thanks everyone who came to play at our April 2010 NADAC trial. We had a blast with (mostly) awesome weather, some really cool courses to run, great judge, and an awesome after-trial Yappy Hour and picnic (officiated by Joslyn the SchutzenPom!). It was great to see so many friends again and we were happy to have a few new ones! Special thanks to all our workers for their efforts and to our fantastic judge Dwyane Bonker!

Don't forget to visit the web sites of our show photographers Linda Anderson (http://cander9267.zenfoli.com) and Mark Vandenwauver (http://web.me.com/vandenwauver/Mark_Vandenwauver_Photography/Pets/Pets.html).

Congratulations everyone for all their achievements! Here are some special brags from the bragboard:

Julia Foust & Joy: 1st Q 1st place Ever Tunnelers
Chris Chapman & Maggie: Novice Outstanding Chances and Touch-n-Go, Novice Superior Hoopers, Open Jumpers
Stephanie Reitz & Seamus: Novice Hoopers and Tunnelers
Chris Chapman & Chelsea: Open Outstanding Hoopers
Christine Donovan & Grady: Novice Hoopers and first Chances Q
Bonnie Boger & Hogan: Novice Regular and Hoopers
Natalee Yates& Hollee: Novice Hoopers
John Virden & Zoe: Novice Weavers and Hoopers
Katie Yeager & Cosmo: O-NAC, O-NJC, O-TG-N
Pam Schiffleger & Zephyr: Elite Outstanding Jumpers, Open Superior TnG
Lisa Godfrey & Sadie B.: 1st Weavers Q ever!
Reggie Snell & Aries: Novice Jumpers
Sam Lietz & Schatzi: Open Jumpers
Anita Ramsey & Wind: Elite Touch-n-Go
Natalee Yates & Pennee: Elite Jumpers
Mariah Mordecai & Aspen: Open Chances, EAC, O-EJC
Christine Donovan & Lucia: Novice Superior Chances, Novice Superior Versatility, Novice All-Around
Kari Koulmentas & Kali: Open TnG, Open Chances
Kari Koulmentas & Darwin: Novice TnG
Rene Beagle & Rebel: 1st trial, 1st Tunnelers Q
Judy Windham & Jazzy: Novice Jumpers title (and won the NQ Raffle!)
Eric Secor & Dudley: Elite Chances title after 1 year!!!
Lisa Godfrey & Lacey: Novice All-Around
Scott Casino & Joslyn the SchutzenPom: debut run and Q in Hoopers; 5/6 Qs for the weekend 

Tails Up Agility would like to thank everyone who came to our October 2009 NADAC trial. We had a great time and hope that you did too. BIG THANKS to those who volunteered to help keep the trial running as quickly as possible; we needed every last one of you! We also want to thank our judge Dee Falk for some fun courses and being cheerful and upbeat in spite of the uncooperative weather. Special thanks also to Bob Parsons for scribing and timing almost every class in the trial even though he was suffering from a cold, Sherry Walters & John Bishop the scoring team who entered all the scores into the computer and even printed out score labels this trial, and Deborah Lankford for stewarding all our great volunteers and making sure everyone got their drawings from the worker lottery.

Don't forget to visit Linda Anderson's on-line photo gallery of pictures from the trial: http://cander9267.zenfolio.com/ You can purchase a variety of items with your dog's photo on them. Thank you Linda for dealing with the cold and rain.

Brags!
Congratulations to the following teams for their accomplishments:
Billy Bob & Beka Long – Q and 1st place in Novice Jumpers
Maggie & Chris Chapman – 1st ever Chances Q & Outstanding Novice Hoopers title
Tobie & Catherine Wyatt – Novice Jumpers & Novice Weavers titles; 1st Open Q
Seamus & Stephanie Reitz – 1st Q ever, earned in Tunnelers & 2nd place
Angel & Brandy Walters – 1st ever title & she finished a course with her tail up!
Cosmo & Katie Yeager – Outstanding Novice Tunnelers title
Harley & Patty Cooper – Novice Regular Q in 1st place!
Hogan & Bonnie Boger – Earned a Q after 2 knee surgeries
Cali & Scott Casino – 1st ever Weavers Q (Cali has always believed that Weavers is a waste of a good Tunnelers course!)

Well done everyone and WTG! Congratulations to everyone for all their triumphs big or small.