FSA Revamp

Well, what had been hinted at came true over the weekend and our captain has decided to take a break from flyball for a while. He had a lot of changes happen during the last year and felt it would be best to step out and catch his breath. Although I am now the captain, I really expect it to be more of an administrative role going forward. Susan Owen kind of took the role of note taker. Connie, Michele, and probably Katie will be sort of like training coordinators during practices to keep track of which dogs need what training, etc. Although it's sad that we won't see Si and Tristen for a while, I think we'll come out stronger for the change, if for no other reason than it will give people more of a reason to be involved.

Next year is going to be very exciting. We'll start out competing in Division 4 and only have two tournaments to get our Speeding Sheepdogs tuned up before the qualifier in Grove during April. Of course, we have three months of winter practice before hand, but it looks like we'll run Wisp, Cody, Zio, and Jean-Luc together. Unfortunately, the Step On It team will only start out with Deuce, Scout, and Luigi and need to compete as pickup until one of the other dogs is ready to race on a team. I guess we will always have to look at shuffling a dog here or there whenever we have an odd number.