About Theresa Rector

In her full time career as an Occupational Therapist, Theresa Rector's empathetic nature and exceptional communication skills are great assets. These are the same attributes that have enabled Theresa to help people with dog training problems for more than 14 years. Theresa understands how to create motivation and speed in dogs of any breed. Her dogs successfully compete at the highest level in both flyball and agility.

In flyball, Theresa has had three Australian Kelpies run on Instant Replay's flyball teams, all of which ran under 4.0 seconds. Her 13-year-old Australian Cattle Dog also ran under 4.0 seconds in her younger years. Although she is no longer running flyball, one of Theresa’s Australian Kelpies, Phoenix, was a member of Instant Replay’s A team when they ran a time of 15.42 seconds. Her younger dog, Novel, has a best time of 3.82 seconds, and is consistently running in the 3.9’s.

In agility Theresa has proven herself as a trainer willing to challenge herself and traditional training methods in order to make the sport of agility better for both dogs and handlers. Today she has two of the fastest dogs on the competition circuit in North America with Infiniti (aka Fin)  and her other Kelpie Phoenix. Theresa and Fin were chosen as members of the CKC Canadian Team to compete at the FCI World Agility Championships in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 and Phoenix was chosen in 2008 and as an alternate in 2010. She is currently working on training her young dog, Saxen.

In the past, Theresa has been an instructor for both Clean Run and Say Yes Camps and currently teaches Agility and Flyball seminars all over North America. Theresa's ability to analyze and improve upon a dog's performance in any sport is what makes her so popular with the students she works with. 

Accomplishments:

- won the second round of the large dog competition at the ESPN Games in 2005 with Fin
- placed 9th overall at ESPN Games in 2005 with Fin

26” class at the AAC National Championships:

- 3rd overall 2005 with Fin
- 7th in 2007 with Fin
- 4th in 2008 with Fin
- 11th in 2009 with Fin

26” Class at AAC Ontario Regional Championships:

- 2nd 2006 with Fin
- 8th in 2007 with Fin
- 1st 2008 - with Fin
- 3rd 2009 -with Fin

USDAA National Championships:

- In 2003 Theresa and Fin made it to the Steeplechase Finals
- In 2005 Theresa and Fin made it to the DAM team finals
- In 2006 Theresa and Fin made it to the finals at the in Steeplechase, Grand Prix and DAM Team. She and Fin placed 9th overall in the Grand Prix Finals and 8th in the Steeplechase finals.
- In 2007 Theresa and Phoenix made it to the DAM team finals
- In 2007 Theresa and Phoenix placed first in the Dog Agility Steeplechase Classic event at USDAA nationals

Canada Cup:

-1st in 22" 2009 with Phoenix

-2nd in 22" in 2010 with Phoenix