Clarksville Canine Sports Association

CCSA has another Baby! Melissa and Kirk Kayden are proud to anounce the birth of their daughter Madeline Amelia Kayden. She was born on May 8th, at 9:24 pm, at Gateway Medical Center. She weighed 7lbs, 3 oz and was 20 3/4 inches long. Melissa and Madeline came home from the hospital at the perfect time - Mothers Day. Marley loves the baby and would be quite willing to baby sit.

After a little adjusting the family has taken Maddie up to PA and OH to meet great grandmothers, aunts and uncles. They plan on being back in town and BACK at practice on July 6th.

Sarah and Steve Marshall are proud to announce that the Twins have arrived. Owen Christopher and Claire Elizabeth Marshall were born five weeks early on May 1, 2008, at the Centennial Womens Hospital in Nashville. Owen arrived first at 11:48 AM, weighing 5lbs 7 1/2 oz, 19 inches long. His sister was right behind him, Claire was born at 11:49 AM, weighing 5 lbs 7 oz, 19 1/8 inches long.

The Red Cross and Steve’s Unit got an emergency leave pushed through and Steve got home from Iraq the day after the births for his mid tour leave. The whole family was together for only about 19 days before Steve had to ship back out. Sarah is now learning to cope with the added work load of two babies in the house on top of the 3 four legged flyball, agility babies that round out the family. Thank goodness her dad was willing to stay down here and help - the extra hands are needed.

The Droolin Dragsters went to Memphis May 24th and 25th for Fetchin Frenzi’s U-Fli tournament. Kara made it up from Louisiana with Blue, Griz and Bandit, and Anthony brought puppy Bear (a future flyballer?). Lea and Misty made it down with Autumn, Bella and Blaze, while Gary made it down with Mikki, Amber and Mikey (the blonde). Kim and Riley didn’t make it - Riley picked a bad time to get sick and they were really missed. This was Mikey’s first tournament and he suprised us all by doing fairly well. Blaze and Mikey both received their TF titles and Griz and Bella received their next titles.
It was a busy weekend, running two teams with only four handlers and a box loader.

On March 29th and 30th, the Dragsters were in Nashville for the Music City Road Dogs 3rd annual Wired for Sound Flyball Tournament. We ran two teams, the Hot Rods and the Low Riders. Most of our experience was on the Low Riders and the Hot Rods were running 14″ hurdles as they had no height dog. The Low Riders came in Third Place on Saturday and managed a Second Place finish on Sunday in division 5. The Hot Rods were running in division IV and didn’t fare as well running with all of our new dogs on 14″ hurdles. But in spite of it all we had four dogs get new titles! Congratulations Griz, Bella Bop, Riley and Blaze.

The Club would like to extend a big thank you to Ron and David Smithfield, Smithfield Manufacturing, for letting us invade the plant for practice. On those snowy, wet or just cold days Ron and David have generously allowed us to use a portion of the plant for practice. After the use of a couple of brooms and laying out the mats we can practice indoors out of the weather, with plenty of light.

Thank you Ron and David!

The Droolin Dragsters made the eleven hour trip to Canton, Tx to compete in the U-Fli National Championships on November 10th.
We drove down on Friday and set up the dragster area at Arbors III, the competition site before checking into the hotel. Racing on Saturday started early, and found us racing against teams in division 5 & 6 as we were the only team there in division 7. We had a few errors but managed to run clean and complete most of our runs to take first in our division.

Sunday was the Y’all Come Flyball Tournament. We had some good clean runs and pulled in some faster times. We came in 3rd place in our division on Sunday. We finished up racing and headed back to the hotel about 8pm.

Monday morning found us back on the road headed for home.

The club would like to express our deepest sympathies to the Woods family for their loss of Bear. Bear will be greatly missed.

They are a little late getting up however there is a new addition to the photos section. A rather large album from the Showcase of Dogs in 2006. Over 190 images which were purchased from Castoways Photography.

The album is located in the photos section “here”.

Congratulations on the wins and the Nationals. Go team!!

There are some additions to the photo albums section.

The Gamblers hosted a U-Fli qualifier tournament in Talladega, AL on August 18 and 19. The Dragsters were there. We had only one team but it was an amazing day, we not only qualified for the Nationals in Canton, TX in November but we completed every heat. It wasn’t our fasted day on record but it was a great day for running error free. Sunday was almost as good, we were just a little slower but we completed all but two heats. We are all set to go to Canton and compete in Division 7 at the Nationals.