Agility Committee -- Liaison: Kristin McNamara  TaraAussies@gmail.com
Committee Chair: Susan Graham
REGION 1: Margaret Meleski (OR)
REGION 2: Krystal Emery (CA)
REGION 3: Cynthia Clark (KS)
REGION 4:  Lisa Kurcharski (OH), Annelise Allan (MN)
REGION 5: Andrea Hoffman (TN), Art Scott (FL), Pamela Bryant Meeks (TX), Allison Bryant (GA), Betty Jaco (TX)
REGION 6: Pete Dolan (CT)
REGION 7: Justyna Wlodarczyk (Europe)
Course reviewers: Sandra Katzen, Annelise Allan, John Raymond, Pamela
Bryant Meeks & Judy Boone

The ASCA Agility Committee has established an e-group to discuss the
ASCA agility program and seek member input. The group is open to all ASCA
members and individuals with ASCA tracking or registration numbers. To join
please go to this URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASCAAgilityEnthusiasts/
When you join you will receive an e-mail containing the group rules.

Due to the number of changes in the agility rules in the next few months, we have created a page so you can keep
up with the latest motions pasted. Once the new rules book is published, we will discontinue this page.

Click here to see the new agility rules.

Agility Committee Report July-August 2008

 

As I type this report, I think we are almost ready to vote on and send our judges program to the BoD for their approval.  It has been a lengthy and difficult process which may need to be re-examined and tweaked in the future, but we have to start somewhere.   

 

The committee is also working on ensuring that all judges make the same calls so the ASCA agility program is consistent from trial to trial.  It is important for affiliates to be honest in their trial reports as the business office is forwarding any incidents to the committee for further discussion.  Exhibitors can express their concerns to the trial committee at the trial or send a note to the committee. We hope that everyone will be civil and considerate in their comments.  Aggressively confronting a judge at the trial is not a preferred tactic.    J

 

Agility has the capacity to continue to bring in income for ASCA and we are trying to find solutions that will offer trialing opportunities for ASCA members everywhere. The concept of allowing outside parties to become Licensed to host agility trials has been discussed again.  The idea was developed as a solution to offer ASCA agility in areas where affiliates dont want to host a trial and/or wont allow another affiliate to host a trial.    

 

We have two new members to welcome to the committee.  We would like to thank Annelise Allan and Krystal Emery for joining us to help make the ASCA Agility program successful.

 

Sincerely,

 

Susan Graham

On behalf of the Agility Committee