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Current Membership:

Nathaniel Roque, Training Director
Molly Hessler, President
Michelle Kutelis, Secretary
Morgan Kutelis (Family Associate)
Chris Kutelis (Associate)

Susan Roque
Roanna Banducci
Paula Fairfield
Carla Murray (Family Associate)
Raul Moreno (Associate)
Louie DeLude
Janine Delude (Family Associate)
Sarah Delude (Youth-Family Associate)
Jeri Kennedy
Phil Kennedy (Family Associate)

Current Membership:

Holly Howell
Jeff Hutchinson
Greg Levitt
Ken Young
Melissa Young (Family Associate)
Jack Avetissian
Ernie Amato
Danielle Lujan (Family Associate)
Marie Weller (Associate)
Esther Hamil
Kacey Hamil (Family Associate)
Jeff Hamil (Family Associate)
Eric Nousch
Tanya Nousch (Family Associate)
Ethan Noush (Family Associate)
Morgan Nousch (Family Associate)

Bios and Accomplishments:

Nathaniel Roque;
I have been envolved in Schutzhund for more than 14 years. I have titled eight of my own dogs dogs at all levels of the sport including Handler Owner Trained from Bh to SchH 3 , FH and FH 2 , I have competed in more than eighty (80) trials with various dogs at the Club, Regional and National Championships, earning more than 40 Schutzhund III Titles as well as numerous SchH 1 – 2, IPO 1-3,FH and FH2 titles. Some of my accomplishments include:

Qualifing and competing at the 2002,2003,2004,2005,2007,2008 USA National Championships as well as the USA North American Championship and GSD Championship. 2007 Southwest Regional Champion - 2002 Southwest Regional Champion - 2002 USA Universal Sieger -
           Member of the USA SchH III Club - USA Bronze Sports Medal - USA Silver Sports Medal -
           USA Gold Sports Medal -USA Master Sports Medal

In addition I have been active at both the local club level and at the national level with the United Schutzhund Clubs of America, holding several positions including:

Vice President United Schutzhund Clubs of America - Training Director of South West Working Dog Association
Officer in two additional clubs, Anacapa Working Dog Association and International Working Dog Association Southwest Regional Director for the United Schutzhund Clubs of America
United Schutzhund Clubs of America Working Dog Judge #30
Director of Judges
American Working Malinois Performance Judge
United Schutzhund Clubs of America Helper Program Director
United Schutzhund Clubs of America Teaching Helper

Since obtaining my judges license in 2002 I have judged more than 500 Dog and Handler Teams in more than 60 Trials including Club, Regional and National Championships including:

Local club trials for the United Schutzhund Clubs of America - Local club trials for the USRC

            Local club trials for the the AWMA
            2004 South East Regional Championship, 2005 Rocky Mountain Regional Championship
          2005 American Working Malinois Association National Championship
            2006 United Schutzhund Clubs of America North American Championship

2006 United Schutzhund Clubs of America Handler Owner Trained Championship

            2007 American Working Dog Federation National Championship
            2009 Mid East Regional Championshp
            2009 New England Regional Championship
            2009 National Championship

Molly Hessler;
Molly is a founding member of SWDA. Her accomplishments in schutzhund include 2 time member of the USA SchH 3 Club.
Dogs:
Myla (Mori von Strebbor Schloss) Sch 3, FH
Eros Sch 3
Havoc von Haus Doose, SG Sch 2
Kira BH
Asher von Entzuchen BH
Felon von Weller Haus

Susan Roque;
Involved in schutzhund for 14 years.
I have been a member of Sunland Sch Club, Anacapa WDA, International K9 Club and founding member and board member of Southwest Working Dog Assoc. Have served as Treasurer and Secretary for SWDA. many time trial secretary for events at these clubs. I have organized and been trial secretary for 2 Regional Championships, North American Championship and meetings.

Schutzhund "Les Femmes" Champion at AWDA. Have titled my dog Danzig to SchH A and ScHh1, Thunder to BH and ready for SchH1 in OB and Tracking and trained for FH with Thunder, Winter my first dog earned a BH and was almost ready for SchH 1 except for finishing the tracking.

I was owner and trainer for K9 Workingdogs, training Obedience , problem solving and protection. I have also worked for California K9 as manager and trainer.
Dogs:
O Winter vom Adler Stein BH
Thunder vom Sunland BH
Hammer Haus "Danzig" SchH 1

Chris Kutelis;
Member of the USA Schutzhund 3 Club,has been a USA member for 7 years. Chris has competed at the club and Regional Level with his HOT Dogs. Chris is also a USA Classified Helper.
Chris has trained and titled:
Putty- mix- BH
C-Triton v Weller Haus BH
Axel v Rolling Acres BH- SchH3
Devious v Weller Haus SchH1
Cody v Regenbogen SchH1

Michelle Kutelis; Currently the Southwest Region of the United Schutzhund Clubs of America Regional Director.
I have been involved in Schutzhund for close to 13 years, both in the SW Region and the New England Region. I have trained and titled 4 dogs, including two dogs from puppy to SchH3, and have been awarded the United Schutzhund Clubs of America Gold Sports Medal. I have competed at the club, Regional, and National level.

Michelle has trained and titled:

Armand von Sandstein BH
Torro von Lordon Haus SchH3 IPO3 H.O.T. OFA RETIRED
Draco van Arek SchH3 OFA H.O.T.
Lucius du Dantero BH
Zh'Akm ot Shato Bulgar- Puppy in Training

Roanna Banducci;

I have been in Schutzhund & a USA member for a few years now.
I am the breeder, handler, owner, and trainer of ALF to a Schutzhund 3 and he was my most beloved GSD. I have also trained and titled other GSD's including Aron to a FH2. Additionally,
I have shown dogs in our USA Conformation Shows.
I am a member of the USA SchH 3 Club. I have also received the USA Bronze Sports Medal, USA Silver Sports Medal, and the USA Gold Sports Medal.
After a 10 month layoff, I am currently now just getting back into training with Baron with whom I hope to train and title by this fall and to repeat an FH2 with Aron.
I have held officer positions in clubs in our SW Region including being the treasurer, secretary, & then president in my first club, the Los Angeles SchH Club & treasurer at Sunland SchH Club.
I was just re-elected to the position of SW Regional Breed Warden for another two years and I have held this position for the past six years. Before this I was the SW Regional Secretary for 4 years.
I have also been a USA Tattooer for 10 years now.

Paula Fairfield;
Dogs:
Angel, Belgian Malinois, SchH2 rescued Aug 2003
Buddy, Ridgeback mix, rescued July 1999
Tasha, GSD and Carla's dog who passed away July 2003

Aquatics:
Scrappy, 6yr old Red Eared Slider
Junior, 2yr old Yellow Bellu Map Cooter
Coral Reef tank, 5yr old 55gal show tank, variety of hard and soft corals, gobies, blennies, dwarf angel, invertebrates.

I lived and worked in the art community in Canada for 14 years and exhibitied internationally as a media artist. I became a commercial sound designer in 1993. I moved to the US in may 1998. I've been involved with schutzhund since July 2004.

Jeff Hutchinson;
I've personally trained my own dogs for the past three years at SWDA. I have successfully achieved a Bh with my male GSD Kaiser Kilo Von Haus Doose. I work full time in law enforcement and completely enjoy the time away from work training and learning in this sport. SWDA has made the training environment family friendly and accommodating. I have my sights on a SchH1 title with "Kilo" in January of 2008. "Lets Train"

Jeri Kennedy;
Dogs: Mona Sue Rosenberg, GSD (2008 Schutzhund wanna-BH) and "Oski" - Asko von der Yugobox, ScHh2 and Henry v Kronen SchH 3

My husband, Phil and I became interested in Schutzhund in 1997 when we imported our first two SchH trained GSDs and had to learn to communicate with them - in German Dog Language! It's been an amazing journey. Mona is our first puppy and first attempt at training a dog "from scratch". Henry came to us through Howie Rodriguez at California K9 and with SWDA we are learning how to handle a serious SchH Dog.

Raul Moreno;
SchH 3 Competitor, participated in 2004 and 2005 SW Regional Championship and the 2005 National Championship with his dog Xaran Schh 3, IPO 3, FH2. Raul is also a USA Classified "Club" Level Helper.

Paula Fairfield;
New to schutzhund, Paula rescued her dog "Angel" from a shelter and has taken her to SchH 2 and entered in the 2007 SW Regional Championship.

Sarah Delude: Our youngest member. At 16 years old Sarah is a USA youth member and is currently handling and training her dog "Cinder" towards Schutzhund Titles. Our club is proud to have a dedicated trainer and club member in Sarah and know that "Cinder" and Sarah will make their titles in 2009 - 2010.

Greg Leavitt

I grew up with dogs and dogsport, being heavily influenced by my grandfather to love working dogs at an early age. I started going to police k9 training as soon as I was old enough to crawl. From a very young age I was allowed to practice train the older retired dogs in the group and learned a lot from training them. Finally for my 7^th birthday I got my first dog Quinnie de Zennevallei who, with lots of help, I was able to train to schutzhund 3. She continues to this day to be the dog I compare all others too. After taking a few years off from dogsport I started back again in 2005. I am currently working Athos Bane my 2 year old german shepherd who I will title this year, and Dax de Loucyn my young malinois puppy. I am also a USA classified helper as well as one of the training helpers for SWDA. My favorite quote is by Dr Helmut Raiser “its so easy to motivate people for dogsport just give them a dog that says lets work”