Off the Dock with Betty Hogan-Haynes For almost 30 years, Betty Hogan-Haynes has photographed dogs at AKC shows as Dart Dog Photography, watching everyone enjoy events like dock diving without having the time to try it herself. That changed in August 2022 when a...
Although Louise Bishoff had previously shown her dogs in conformation, she didn’t step into the performance arena until she tried dock diving in 2019. The Greendale, Indiana, resident was introduced to the sport when her daughter, Megan, and Megan’s Icelandic...
Angela Alexander of Bell Buckle, Tennessee, first fell in love with dock diving when she tried it out with her German shepherd, Mara, over seven years ago. However, it was the purchase of an 8-week-old bloodhound puppy named Kari in 2019 that took Angela’s love for...
Dustin Krempin’s mother, Terri, suggested he try dock diving with his first dog, Sniper. However, that plan was put on hold when Sniper was diagnosed with Lyme disease and later passed away in July 2021. A month later, the Shakopee, Minnesota, resident got a...
Competitor stays young through the sport A naturally competitive, outdoorsy person, Barbara “Bo” Mashburn was hooked on the sport after just one lesson with her water-loving Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Rufus. Inspired by dock diving pictures she saw on Facebook, the...
A prominent athlete in several dog sports, Bonnie Gutzwiler of Yorkville, Ill., was at a cluster event with her dogs in 2018 when she came across a mobile diving dock. She earned her first titles that weekend in a Try-It with her high-drive German Shepherd, who loved...
Suzanne Diefenbach and her husband, Alfonso, have competed with NADD since 2014 when they only had one Belgian Malinois between them. They started training together at Hunter Canine in Cave Creek, Ariz., where they jumped their first event and were ultimately hooked...
In 2017, Amber Brandt of Vermilion, Ohio, went to watch a friend compete in dock diving locally and has been hooked ever since. After getting a German Shepherd in July that same year, she started competing with partner Amos nearly a year later (June 2018) and hasn’t...