Welcome to Split Second Agility

Split Second Agility is owned and operated by Paula Goss, a nationally recognized agility competitor. She offers special skills classes and private lessons to all levels of agility enthusiasts.

Paula and Split Second Agility reside on Victory Farm; a 200 acre working farm located in Galesville, Maryland. She and her husband Rob own two Border Collies, Split & Trae, and a working Jack Russell Terrier, Pez.

At the 2007 NADAC Championships in Gillette, WY, Paula and Split won the Overall Championship in the 16 inch Skilled division and 2 yr old Trae came in 2nd Place in the 20 inch Pre-Elite division. Cumulatively, they had 14 placements, 7 of them being first places!

Split also received a 9th place medal for NADAC's 2007 Overall Top 10 placements of Skilled Regular dogs.

	Paula has been involved in competitive agility since 1994, and she comes from a competitive horseback riding background. She competed for 15 years on the AHSA circuit from small pony hunter classes up through the USET Medal/ASPCAMaclay level classes. Her passion for stadium style jumping led her into dog agility.
	Her first agility dog, Rafiki's Emily Jane, completed all her AKC Excellent Titles, her USDAA MAD title, and all her NADAC Elite titles. "Emily" competed at the NADAC Nationals in 1996 and 1997 where she won the Elite Large Dog Team event and placed 3rd overall in the Veteran's division in the latter year. Emily was retired in 1998 at the age of 9 and passed on to the rainbow bridge in 2003 at 14 years old.
	Paula's next agility dog was a border collie named Starcrest Victory N' Motion. "Tory" was ranked in NADAC's Top 10 the two years she competed as well as placing 4th at both the 2000 and 2001 NADAC Championships. She appeared on ESPN's Incredible Dog Challenge, placing third, as well as representing Purina in agility demos and competitions. Tory was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in January 2002; just 3 months after winning several classes and placing 4th overall at the 2001 NADAC Championships. Before retiring from agility, Tory earned NADAC's 1000 life-time point award. She passed on to the rainbow bridge in 2003 at 4 yrs old.
	The oldest of Paula's current competition dogs is 5 year old Rival's Split Second Victory. In 2005, Split achieved her NATCH, Outstanding NATCH and Versatility NATCH. They won the Touch N Go National Overall Championship, and got on the podium as the Third Place Overall 20" Elite dog at the 2005 NADAC Championships. In early 2006, Split achieved her Outstanding Versatility NATCH and NADAC's 2500 life-time point award before an injury sidelined her for the rest of the '06 season. Paula and Split returned to competition in 2007 achieving their Elite Triple Triple and Elite Triple Superior Versatility awards. Split was moved to the Elite Skilled division and in 4 months, they qualified for the NADAC championships where they won the overall championship in Gillette, WY. She is presently working on the last few 100 DRI Q's for her Platinum Speedstar Award which represents the fastest clean running dogs in NADAC.
	The newest addition to the family is another Rival border collie named Rival's Tres Magnific Victoire. He is Paula's "heart dog". Trae made his agility debut in the summer of 2006. In his first year competing, Trae achieved his NADAC Novice and Open Superior titles in all 6 classes as well as his Novice AKC titles in the two AKC trials he has entered. He and Paula came in second place in the 20 inch Pre-Elite Division at the 2007 NADAC Championships taking 1st place in four of the classes over the week long competition. He is presently competing at the elite level and already has several purple NATCH Q's, which are bonus line runs with 100 DRI's, under his young belt.