{"id":99397,"date":"2025-04-15T20:51:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.periniassociates.com\/?p=99397"},"modified":"2025-12-30T23:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:09:16","slug":"merit-academy-student-dog-go-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/merit-academy-student-dog-go-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Merit Academy Student & Dog Go Big"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was incredible when I got the call letting me know we had made the team. Training in the early morning, training in the evening when it’s cold outside when I didn’t want to–it’s just all paid off.\u201d<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2014 Kaitlyn Dill<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

WOODLAND PARK, CO, UNITED STATES, April 14, 2025 \/EINPresswire.com<\/a>\/ — Merit Academy<\/a> student, Kaitlyn Dill and her Shetland Sheepdog, Adios, are headed to Portugal this summer to represent the United States in the Junior Open Agility World Championship (JOAWC).<\/p>\n

“We have put all of our heart and soul into training for this for two years. So, it’s really cool to see our dream come true,” said 17-year-old Dill, who is competing with the AKC Junior Team USA in the JOAWC.<\/p>\n

The K-9 duo are the only partners competing on the junior team from Colorado. They are standouts in agility competitions, zooming through obstacle courses and competing for the best time.<\/p>\n

“It was incredible when I got the phone call letting me know we had made the team,\u201d said Dill. \u201cTraining in the early morning, training in the evening when it’s cold outside when I didn’t want to– it’s just all paid off,” she said. “I’m just so excited to be able to represent my country and my community.”<\/p>\n

Kaitlyn\u2019s parents, John and Lisa Dill, are very proud of their daughter\u2019s success so far. \u201cWe are happy to see her hard work pay off as she and Adios get ready to represent Teller County and the nation at the championship!\u201d<\/p>\n

“I also want to thank my coach, Kathleen Oswald, who has been able to train us and get us ready for these competitions,\u201d said Dill. \u201cShe’s been really supportive and has just been a great friend and mentor. I\u2019m really grateful for her.”<\/p>\n

Noah’s Dry Cleaners in Woodland Park monetarily supported her trip to a regional event in Texas, where she was able to try out for Team USA. Dill said the support from the community has been one of the major things contributing to her and Adios’ success.<\/p>\n

About Merit Academy
\nMerit Academy is a public charter school in the Woodland Park School District.
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It was incredible when I got the call letting me know we had made the team. Training in the early morning, training in the evening when it’s cold outside when I didn’t want to–it’s just all paid off.\u201d \u2014 Kaitlyn Dill WOODLAND PARK, CO, UNITED STATES, April 14, 2025 \/EINPresswire.com\/ — Merit Academy student, Kaitlyn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,444,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing","category-media-relations-2","category-news","category-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99399,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99397\/revisions\/99399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}