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About Kate Moureaux





Kate began participating in dog sports in 1992, at the age of 6 years old. Growing up in agility helped to develop Kate's keen understanding of dog behavior and training. Since founding DrivenDogs Agility in 2004, she has been able to share her knowledge and insights with countless other dog lovers and agility competitors. In addition to operating DrivenDogs Agility, Kate also became certified as a USDAA judge in 2008.


Kate firmly believes that both the dog’s solid understanding of behaviors, plus training consistency, are key to excelling in a dog training partnership. Therefore, Kate’s training philosophy is to train a solid foundation, with consistent cues the dog can trust. Kate focuses on positive reinforcement and making sure the dog enjoys their job. As an agility handling instructor and coach, Kate helps her students to be clear and consistent with their handling cues, as well as honing their mental game. Kate also has an excellent eye when training, which allows her capture positive behaviors, as well as prevent undesired ones.


Over the years, Kate has won numerous Regional and National events, as well as Championship and Lifetime titles. Kate’s proudest accomplishment is winning the American Kennel Club’s National Agility Championship on three separate occasions, with three different dogs (Quick, Driven, and Smart). These three dog are Grandmother, Mother, and Daughter, which makes this accomplishment even more incredible. All three dogs were bred, trained, and handled by Kate Moureaux. This has never been accomplished previously, and is very unlikely to be repeated.


In additional to Kate’s three AKC National Agility Championship wins, she is also an: AKC Agility Invitational Champion, six-time USDAA National Champion, six-time IFCS World Team member, and four-time WAO World Team member.


Outside of Agility, Kate has titled her dogs in Rally, Obedience, and Herding. Most notably, in 2017 Kate and Great won the American Kennel Club’s Rally National Championship's Novice division. This was Kate’s first time winning a National Championship in a sport outside of Agility.

Since returning to Agility competition post-Covid, Kate has been selected to compete at the World Agility Open in 2022 (Wildcard) and 2023/2024 (Team USA) and the 2024 IFCS World Championships with her Border Collie, Prize. Prize also competed at the Incredible Dog Challenge in 2021/22/23, winning the Western Regional Championship in 2021/2022 and earning podium placements at the Incredible Dog Challenge National Finals in Missouri. Most recently, Kate and Prize won the 2023 UKI West Coast Cup Overall 16" and won Grand Prix and Biathlon 16" at the 2023 USDAA Western Regional. Additionally, Kate and Prize won the Grand Prix 16" Final at the 2023 Cynosport Championships and the Games Challenge 16" Final at the 2023 US Open.


Kate currently shares her life with fourteen year old Border Collie (Smart), ten year old Border Collie (Great), seven year old Border Collie (Prize), and three year old Border Collie (Light).


Kate also occasionally breeds her Border Collies. Please check out Excel Border Collies for more information.



Kate's Dogs



Smart



Excel Smart Move



Great



Excel The Great One



Prize



Excel Eye On The Prize



Lightsaber



Excel Light On Her Feet



Some of Kate's notable accomplishments





  • 2006/08/10/14/16/24 IFCS United States World Team Member (Quick/Driven/Smart/Prize)

  • 2016 World Agility Open USA World Team Member (Smart)

  • First Junior Handler to earn an AKC MACH and MACH2 titles (Heisey)

  • 2006/08/16 AKC National Agility Champion (Quick/Driven/Smart)

  • 2015/18/23 USDAA Grand Prix National Champion (Smart and Prize)

  • 2010 AKC Agility Invitational National Champion (Scarlet)

  • 2024 West Coast Open Steedstakes Champion (Prize)







  • 2016 Westminster Kennel Club 16" Agility Champion (Smart)

  • 2021/22/24 Purina Pro Plan Incredible Dog Challenge Western Regional Medium Agility Winner (Prize)

  • Over 50 USDAA Regional Championship Wins (Quick/Driven/Power/Jammer /Smart/Kelvin/Prize)

  • 2015 USDAA Steeplechase National Champion (Smart)

  • 2017 AKC Rally National Champion, Novice Division (Great)

  • 2022/23/24 WAO Wildcard and USA World Team Member (Prize)

  • 2023 US Open Games Challenge Champion (Prize)




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