Joy Bishop

Joy Bishop has had phenomenal success in agility over the past decade. She and her Shetland Sheepdog Keen were members of the AKC World Team representing the USA in Italy in 2004, where they won the 16 in. individual jumpers round. In addition, Joy and Keen placed third in the USDAA Grand Prix Championship in 2003. Both Keen and Quigley, an Aussie who was Joy's first agility dog, earned their MACH titles.

For the past four years, Joy has been teaching agility classes and giving seminars throughout the Front Range. She has experience teaching all varieties of dogs as well as handlers of varied experience levels, including kids. She continues to improve by taking instruction from the best handlers across the country and sharing the latest training methods with her students. Joy believes in teaching strong foundation skills with positive techniques. She considers agility to be a fun and active game to play with your dog.

BJ Walker

My name is BJ Walker, and my husband and I are empty nesters in Boulder, as our three children have graduated from college and are out on their own. I have had Bearded Collies for 20 years, and I started agility with my older girl, Kailey, about 9 years ago. As our 'herd' increased, I introduced our newer dogs to the sport also! I have a background in education, as I taught elementary and secondary students for 15 years. I retired in June 2007, and have devoted my time to dog training.

Ever the perpetual student, I continue to read, take seminars and learn from the masters of this amazing sport. I also do Canine Freestyle Dancing, Conformation and Rally Obedience with my dogs. I am fascinated by the link between the two species of canine and human, and look for ways to enjoy and enrich our interactions with each other.

Trish Whitley

I've been training and competing in Agility since 1994. All of the dogs that I've personally had the pleasure to train and live with are on my Team Members page of this site. As you can see it is a bit of a variety of breeds!

I believe that working several different breeds of both the large and small size help to give me a wide range of skills in my toolbox to accomodate their needs. This goes for training many dogs as well, as each one is so completely different from the other - just when you think you've got it sorted out - a new and different personality provides challenges in new areas!

I've competed at 3 different National level AKC competitons with my Pom Tippi (good thing about little dogs is that they can fly in cabin!). These are qualifying events where you must be able to meet the requirements before entering. I've achieved a MACH title on my Pom (Master Agility Champion) which is the highest level title that one can attain in AKC competition. All of my dogs have reached at least the AX, AXJ title level in AKC (Agility Excellent & Agility Excellent Jumper). None of this of course has any meaning without the love and dedication of my wonderful teammates as you can read about on my teammates page.

I also compete in USDAA and have qualified for the World Championships in 2007 and 2008 with my Aussie Levi. (see Levi's page under Teammates for his accomplishments), DOCNA and NADAC venues are fun arenas where I enjoy starting my young dogs off. There have been competitions that I've entered as far east as Massachusetts and as west as Utah (okay that's not THAT far west but we're working on California still!) but we are fortunate to have ALOT of trials here in Colorado that can keep someone very busy and many more in our neighboring states that can make up a fun weekend trip as well!

All in all - I like to be sure that FUN is the top priority. Motivating the dogs by play and praise to accomplish the tasks that we ask of them - then build on each obstacle till we are able to complete an entire course!

I look forward to working with you!