The Droolin Dragsters traveled to Chattanooga, TN to compete in the Crazy Train 2012 NAFA flyball tournament February 25th and 26th. For two members, Steve Varner and Kara McHugh,newly home from Afghanistan, it was their first flyball tournament since returning stateside. It was great to have them safely back and competing with the team again. We were running open class and had a guest dog running with us to complete the team. Lee Short and her Welsh Corgi, Brigitte, made a great addition to the team, and we are grateful for their help. The team cut about 1 ½ seconds off our seed time which made for a great weekend
On December 10th & 11th Gary and Beth were at the MTSU Tennessee Livestock Center, competing in the Third NADAC Agility Trial hosted by K9Sports of Tennessee. They had an impressive weekend bringing home 24 Qualifying Ribbons. Beth’s Kiera came home with 2Q’s, 1 First Place, 2 Second Place, 1 Fourth Place and 2 new Titles. Ky came home with 5Q’s, 3 First Place, 3 Second Place, 4 Third Place, 2 Fourth Place and one new Title. Gary’s Jackie came home with 8Q’s, 2 First Place, 4 Second Place, 1 Third Place, and 2 Fourth Place Ribbons. Mikki brought home 9Q’s, 9 First Place, 2 Second Place and 3 new Titles. For the series Mikki placed 8th , Ky placed 18th, Jackie placed 34th, and Kiera placed 72nd out of 158 dogs. Way to go guys!
On December 3rd and 4th Gary, with Mikki, Jack, and Madison traveled to Harriman, TN for an AKC agility trial. Madison goes along to let all the new people meet her, she thinks it is all about her, her puppy training is coming along nicely but she is still a baby. Jack is doing great, his fourth trial and he came home with 1 Double Q, 3 Q’s, 2 of them First Place and one Fourth Place. Mikki, competing in Excellance B came home with 2 Q’s, 1 First place and 1 Third Place.
Beth and Gary traveled to Franklin, TN, on November 19th & 20th, to compete in a NADAC Agility trial. They had a good weekend coming home with 16 Qualifying runs. Kiera came home with one Q, 1 Fourth Place and 1 Fifth Place. Ky came home with 4 Q’s, 1 First place, 2 Second Place, 3 Third Place, 1 Fourth Place and 2 new Titles. This was Jackie’s third trial and he had a great weekend, He came home with 4 Q’s, 1 First Place, 2 Second Place, 3 Third Place 2 Fifth Place and 1 Title. Mikki, was our star of the weekend. The old girl came home with 7 Q’s, 6 First Place, 2 Second Place, 2 Third Place and a new title.
The Droolin Dragsters traveled to Gray Summit, Mo to compete in the U-Fli National Championships on November, 12th and 13th, 2011. We came home with First Place in division nine! This is the fifth year in a row that the Dragsters have won our division in the Nationals.
It was a great weekend altogether. On Friday, Max competed in singles. He placed third in the tournament and the exciting news was he had a 4.3 second run. Fantastic run Max!
We had a visitor both Saturday and Sunday, our team member Sheila Shelley came out to visit. We lost Sheila and her racing members several years ago when her job moved her to St Louis. She is now working for Purina and came out wearing team colors. Although she recently lost both Trinity and Bailey she has two new family members and they all came out to cheer on the team.