Upcoming USDAA Agility Trials:

When: Feb 4-5, 2023

Where: Indoors on artificial turf at Oriole Dog Training Club, Halethorpe, MD

Designing Judge: Francisco Berjon
Head Judge: Ryan Arnold

Trivia: This trial marks the 70th USDAA trial put on by Artful Dodgers Agility (our first trial was in 1991).

USDAA Updates for 2023:

Jump heights changed as of the beginning of the year and are more in line with AKC.  See this chart: 

(Thanks to Helen McNenly for this writeup)

For you AKC folk who haven’t done USDAA in a while, or have never run in USDAA:

1. If you have an AKC permanent height card, just use that and your dog will not need to be measured

2. Dogs eligible to run 15 months and older

3. You do NOT need to start in Starters – come into the program at the Masters or Advanced level (your choice, or even start in Starters – do what is best for your dog!)

4. NO TABLE IN MASTERS STANDARD. YES, you read that correctly! And I KNOW there are a lot of you out there that will LOVE that  Positionless table for Starters and Advanced Standard.

5. Contrary to some misinformation out there, USDAA has not judged up contacts on any contact obstacle for several years now.

6. No weave poles in Jumpers

7. You may run any course FEO and bring in a toy. Only restrictions on toys are that they don’t make noise or contain food. Yes, you may toss the toy.

8. You may do Fix and Continue in most courses if things go awry.

9. No refusals are counted at all in Intro or Starters, and only at contacts in Advanced. MUST be clean (no off course, or bars except that Intro may still Q with 5 faults) and under time in order to Q in Standard, Jumpers and Grand Prix. The other classes are either time plus faults or dependent on points.

10. Have some Qs in Performance and now can run Championship? Those Qs will be combined together for a Performance title. Eg, you had 3 P3 Jumpers Qs from the past and now want to run Championship. Get 2 more in Championship and that is your P3 Jumpers title.

USDAA’s Cynosport (the annual National competition) will be in Murfreesboro, TN (outside of Nashville) this year in October, so this is also a chance to earn qualifications towards that! 3 Qs in ANY tournaments earns you qualification to Cynosport. OR 2 tournament Qs plus 5 titling Qs.

When: May 20-21, 2023

Where: Indoors on artificial turf at Oriole Dog Training Club, Halethorpe, MD

Judge: Karen Gloor

More information will be posted here when available.

When: Oct 7-8, 2023

Where: Indoors on artificial turf at Oriole Dog Training Club, Halethorpe, MD

Judge: Stephen Routh

More information will be posted here when available.

Future USDAA Agility Trials

Three Year Look-Ahead:

2023	Feb 4-5	May 20-21	Oct 7-8
2024	Feb 3-4	May 18-29	Oct 5-6
2025	Feb 1-2	May 17-18	Oct 4-5

Previous USDAA Agility Trials

Results and courses from previous trials can be viewed on the Artful Dodgers USDAA blog.