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Nancy Gyes Nancy has been involved in dog training sports for the last 25 years. She was active in competition and pet obedience, tracking and behavior counseling for pet owners before discovering agility in 1990. She has been on the AKC World Team 7 times; 4 years with Scud and three years with Riot. Nancy was the Assistant World Team Coach in 2005 and has been the Coach of the American Kennel Club World Team since 2006. Nancy is the first handler ever to win USDAA National/World Championships 4 years in a row. Scud in 1998, Riot in 1999, Wicked in 2000, and Riot again in September 2001. Nancy & Jim and their dogs have won over 70 first place trophies at National Finals in the past 13 years. Seven of her dogs have earned the USDAA ADCh: Scud, Riot, Wicked, Panic, Ace, Toast, Winston. Nancy has put eight MAD titles on dogs in six jump heights—12-18-22-24-26 and 30-inch—Scud, Riot, Wicked, Panic, and Ace (Border Collies), and Winston, Hopscotch, and Toast (All Americans). Scud attained a MACh towards the end of his career while struggling with Lymphoma and Riot and Wicked have now achieved AKC MACh 3.Scud was the 30 inch National Champion in 1998 and retired with a win of the Performance Grand Prix in 2001. Riot won the performance Grand Prix in 2004 and 2005 and she won the Veterans Grand Prix in 2006. Wicked, handled by Nancy’s husband Jim came in 3rd place in 2006. Riot has retired from National Competitions with 2 first places in Championship Grand Prix, 2 firsts in Performance Grand Prix, and the Veterans win in 2006 Grand Prix!Both Riot and Wicked completed the USDAA Platinum 500 lifetime qualifying scores in August of 2007! Nancy is a full-time agility instructor and competitor. Most weekends find her at AKC or USDAA shows with midweek devoted to running Power Paws Agility with her husband, Jim Basic, in San Jose, California. She has taught seminars all over the United States and in Japan & Korea. She
has won 8 National/World Championship Titles in USDAA & AKC. FCI
World Championship Team Member 96,97,98, 99, Scud
Nancy’s Dogs Scud: ADCh,
Mach Her first agility dog was Scud, a male Border Collie that died on September 19, 2003 at close to 13 years of age. Scud was diagnosed with lymphoma April of 1999, but went on to continue his career in agility while undergoing years of chemotherapy. Nancy and ADCh, MACh, Scud, CDX, represented the United States on four AKC World Agility Championship teams, in 1996, '97, '98, and '99. In 1999 in Dortmund, Germany, Scud and Nancy placed sixth in the World. They also have a long record of superior performances at the USDAA National Championships, winning many first place trophies in the Nationals Classes over 8 years of Grand Prix competitions. Scud is the 1998 Grand Prix National 30-inch Champion, the 2001 USDAA 22 inch World Champion Veteran, and he placed second in 1995 and 1997. They were a member of the winning DAM National team in 1997, and won the Steeplechase National in 1998. Nancy has continued her successful Grand Prix career with her other border collies. Riot: ADCh,
MACh3, USDAA LAA Platinum She is the 1999, USDAA National Grand Prix 24-inch Champion, and she placed second in the USDAA Nationals in 1998. On September 23rd, 2001, Riot became the 2001 USDAA World Champion at 22 inches. Riot represented the AKC at the World Championships in 2001 and 2002. Riot placed 2nd in the Individual Agility class in 2001, and was 1st in the Agility Class in Dortmund Germany in 2002! Riot is the AKC National Champion 24 inch class for both 2001 and 2002. Riot also won the International overall Championship at the AKC Nationals in 2002. She followed that up by winning the AKC World Team Invitational Show in May 2003. Unbeknownst to Nancy, Riot was actually running with a strained psoas (groin) muscle at that show, and less than a week later it became evident she had an injury. Riot won a place on the AKC 2003 World Team with the win at the Invitational, but because of the injury she was unable to attend the World Competition. Riot missed both the USDAA and AKC finals for 2003, but returned to competition January 2004. Riot won the USDAA Performance National Championship in 2005, and the Veterans Championship in 2006. Wicked: ADCh,
MACh3, USDAA LAA Platinum Wicked is the 2000 USDAA World Champion, and a finalist in 2001. She is the winner of the 26 inch Steeplechase at USDAA 2001 World championships. Wicked has also been a finalist at the AKC Nationals 3 times. Wicked placed 3rd at the AKC Nationals in 2004 at 20 inches, as well as being on the winning USDAA National/World Championship DAM Team with Jim Basic and Spy and Ann Croft and Trigger in 2004. Wicked was 3rd in the Performance GP in 2006 handled by Jim Basic, Nancy’s husband Panic: MX,
MXJ, ADCh Panic has won multiple Grand Prix and Steeplechase qualifiers in his 4 years of competition. He also placed 2nd in 2004 and 3rd in 2005, and 2nd again in 2006 at the USDAA Nationals in the Steeplechase finals Ace: ADCh,
AX, AXJ (Registered name Mace) Ace is Nancy’s youngest competing border collie. He started his career after just a couple months of competition with a Steeplechase win in February 2006, in Turlock, California. In July 2007 Ace won the NW Regional Grand Prix and he will be competing in the GP finals in Scottsdale November 2007 Jack Jack is Nancy’s youngest dog. He began competition in 2006, but only was shown a few times before being laid off with an injury. He returned to competition August of 2007.
Jim became involved in agility in 1992 when he began training his young Border Collie, Mick. After starting agility with the Boeing Dog and Gun Club, Jim joined Rainier Agility Team in 1993, where he instructed as well as trained. By the end of 1994 Jim had teamed up with Nancy Gyes and left Washington state for sunny San Jose, California. In addition to running Power Paws Agility with Nancy, Jim is on the board of directors of the United States Dog Agility Association (USDAA), and on the board of the Bay Team Agility Club. Although Jim is known for his aggressive, run with your dog type handling, he and his dogs excel in all the variety of agility classes, whether it be gamblers, jumpers, snooker, or standard. His students at Power Paws know him for his irrepressible sense of humor, making classes there entertaining as well as informative. His
Dogs In 1995 Jim acquired his second Border Collie, Highcroft Swift, a littermate to Nancy's Riot. At first, an agility career for Swift looked doubtful, since he needed TPO surgery on both hips. Fortunately, the surgeries and rehabilitation were a success and Swift was up and competing by the time he was two years old. In August of 1998 he earned his first ADCH, and in 2000 and 2001 he was a Finalist at the USDAA Grand Prix of Dog Agility World Championships. Swift made all 4 categories in the USDAA Top Ten for the years 2000 and 2001, making Jim the first handler to have two dogs in all categories in the same year. In 2003 Swift earned enough legs for the USDAA Gold Lifetime Achievement Award, which requires 350 legs at the Master level, with at least 35 in each class. Mick and Swift rank #1 and #2 for career Master gamble legs in USDAA, with 125 for Mick and 87 and counting for Swift. In January of 2000 Jim added his third Border Collie, Spy, aka Power Paws Secret Agent. Spy started competing at the end of June 2001, and qualified for the USDAA nationals at only his second trial. At the 2001 Nationals, Spy placed 2nd in the first round of the Steeplechase, 2nd in Gamblers, and tied for third in Jumpers. Spy has also earned his USDAA ADCH.
Blast owned by Brittney Holtorf. Blast has an ADCH in USDAA, and has Excellent titles in AKC. Blast was the 24" Jumpers Champion at the 1996 USDAA Nationals and finished 2nd at the 2000 AKC Nationals in the 24" class. Blast has also earned his Bronze Lifetime Achievement Award in USDAA with over 150 career Masters legs. Meg owned by Ron Etherton. Meg has earned USDAA ADCH and NADAC S-NATCH. Meg is also a NADAC National Champion. Fly owned by Laura Manchester. Fly has her USDAA MAD and earned her USDAA ADCH in 2002. Molly owned by Holly Bourne. Molly has her USDAA MAD title and AKC Excellent titles. |
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