Tracklayers
Our Head Tracking Coordnator is Mark Chaffin. He has been in the sport since 1976 and started laying tracks nationally in 1991. Mark start coordinating tracking at national events in 1998 and has been in charge of USCA's tracking program since 2017.
Joe Stuetelberg (Mid Iowa Working Dogs Club)- I have been in the sport for 10 years, titled dogs from BH to IGP3 and FH2. I have laid 100+ tracks for championships at Regional and National level. I have won the high tracklayer award at these championships multiple times. I am always willing to help out our sport, organization, and fellow competitors.
Barbara Smart I've been in the sport since 2006. I have been on the team since 2019 and coordinate the tracking competitors
Ali McPherren I've been laying tracks on the team since 2022 but helped out at events prior to that. I'm the youngest on the team at 19 years old and I have laid tracks at every WDC and National event since 2022.
Jim Sullivan has been in the sport for over 25 years. He learned a lot of his tracking skills from his mentor, Mark Chaffin. His first dog Oz was BHOT, received 12 IPO3/SCH3 titles and an FH in her career, and competed at the Nationals. He has successfully trained 4 dogs to a 3 level, including 4 FH's and 2 FH2. Jim has failed 5 times in tracking - and freely admits he learns more from the failures than the successes.
Jim has been laying tracks at a National level since 2011 and received his track laying book, #3 in 2018. Since 2018, Jim has laid tracks at 11 National level competitions and has recorded 244 tracks, including 196 tracks at a National event. Jim feels it is very important to lay consistent tracks whether the competition is a National level event or a club trial and recognizes the value in the track laying program in order to promote this consistency. Jim resides in Alaska and is a founding member of the Alaska GDI club.