Claudette is an agility competitor, instructor and judge. She has been on World Teams with two of her poodles, Simba and Nacho. Simba was a double team gold medalist, as well as an individual bronze medalist at the 2016 Americas & Caribe FCI Championship in Medellin, Colombia. Nacho is the 2021 US Open champion in Biathlon, 2021 and 2022 Midwest Biathlon Champion, and represented Team USA at the 2022 WAO in the Netherlands.

Claudette is an instructor at Canine Sports Zone in Middleton, WI, where she teaches advanced classes in handling and strategies for international style courses. She has trained under Brazilian coach and World Champion Jose Luiz and attended seminars with Tobias Wust, Daniel Schroeder, Tamas Traj, Polona Bonac, Pavol Vakonic and Vendula Hausnerova, among others.

As a judge, her style is heavily influenced by European judges with whom she has worked on course design with: Petr Pupik, Jan Egil Eide, Tamas Traj, Zsofi Biro, Gabriel Arriagada Osses and Vendula Hausnerova. Petr Pupik published his second Advent Calendar in December 2021, with courses especially designed by judges from all over the world, including Jan Egil Eide, Thora Van Der Stock, Reeta Pirttikoski, Jari Suomalainen, Rene Blank and Daniel Walz, and invited Claudette to contribute a course for the Advent Calendar as the sole USA judge.

Claudette strives to create flowy, fast courses with good lines for dogs and challenges that test skills, partnership and promote the development of agility as a sport at the international level.

Advent Calendar