President Lisa Williams
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Lisa and moved to the Gainesville area in 2006, she always loved and had German Shepherd Dogs. In 2011 Fala came into her home after she was diagnosed with EPI. Lisa discovered Dock Diving in 2011 and worked through the winter to get Fala off the dock. Their first event was in April 2012. Lisa joined Dixie in 2017 and Fala was invited to the 2017 DockDog World Championships! Unfortunately Fala passed unexpectantly in 2018. Lisa got a new German Shepherd Dog, King and 2019 was a great season for them wrapping it up with a first place world championship finish in speed retrieve turbo! King's third season he became a 2 time Champion in Speed Retrieve taking first place in the Nitro Division. At the World Championships in 2022 King once again took first place in a final, Titan Iron Dog. Team King has also been top GSD in iron Dog for three consecutive years! King is also the fastest GSD ever in the history of dockdogs, in addition he is the ONLY GSD to ever title in the Sonic division. This is Lisa's seventh year on Dixie's Board. She is looking forward to growing Dixie membership and local events!
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Vice President Anna Schwartzenberger
Anna owns her own dog training and boarding business, so dogs are her whole life. She started doing DockDogs and joined Dixie Dockdogs in 2016 with her Malinois, Ranger. After he retired to focus on personal protection, she was thrilled to discover his son, Ajay, had a passion for the dock over everything else and to be part of the club again. Anna is excited to be more involved with Dixie Dockdogs as Club VP. Ajay received a Top Ranked Iron Dog Spartan 2023 award from the club and is looking forward to more Spartan scores in 2024.
Secretary Darrah Rorrer
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Darrah has lived in Gainesville, Georgia since 1996. She has a daughter and son-in-law, 4 grandboys, and a great-grand baby. Darrah became a widow in 2012. Her life changed directions, when she adopted a Fox Red Lab/Pittie/Beagle mix puppy from Dahlonega, Georgia named Mattie. Darrah discovered that Mattie’s favorite activity was jumping off the lakes edge, swimming into the water to retrieve a stick...over and over again. Darrah discovered a pool for jumping dogs into water, and like minded people that spent hours pursuing this goal. Darrah and Mattie followed Dixie DockDogs around for about a year, watching the sport as spectators. Finally joining Dixie Dock Dogs in 2014; Mattie’s first event was in May 2014, and has been jumping ever since. Mattie was invited to the DockDog World Championship Finals in 2016, and 2017. Darrah joined the Dixie DockDog Board in 2017, and has been a board staple since! This is going to be an eventful 25th Year Anniversary for DockDog World Wide, and The Dixie Dock Dogs Affiliate Club welcomes all returning and new members alike. Come out and have fun with us, and let’s get our new season started!
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Treasurer Cassie Terranova
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Cassie got Radar as a foster at around 4 months old and by the time he was 6 months she was searching for a way to channel his boundless energy and thankfully found dock diving . They joined Dixie DockDogs shortly after their first competition at Pooches in the Park in Braselton in 2019. Radar soon discovered that Extreme Vertical was his favorite game and has been competing in Iron Dog since. He was the top ranked German Shepherd in EV in 2021,2022 and 2023. In 2021 we attended our first World Championships and made it in to Top Gun EV finals . The following year we were awarded a Golden Paw Award for being a Top Ranked Top Gun team overall. The 2023 season was light for us as Radar was recovering from an injury but he was released to compete again in November and came back with a new personal best and better than ever. We are excited to see where the 2024 season takes us and to be joining the Dixie Board this year!
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Director Mandie McLendon
Mandie is a retired vet tech and dog trainer. She has enjoyed diving with Tallulah, my 5 year old Aussie and now Bristol, 1.5 year old Aussie has joined the game. Tallulah and Mandie have competed and titled in Rally and agility as well. Bristol spends his extra time in the conformation ring. Mandie is originally from SC but moved here from Texas a couple of years ago after a 12 year stint. She and her husband Scott have been married for 33 years this May and have 2 grown kids! Mandie is looking forward to helping Dixie out as a director!