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WASSA Trophies and Awards
Each year, Wassa offers a number of trophies
and awards to its members in recognition of
their achievements with their shelties.
Our Annual Awards Certificates, previously known as our “Spoon Awards” are intended to
encourage the promotion and recognition of
Shelties in Manitoba. Awards are provided
to eligible members for achieving titles in
the following areas: championship and
obedience titles, flyball, herding, rally,
and agility.
Award Certificates are also provided for:
placement in the Top 10 Shelties, (any
country) the top sheltie in Manitoba, First
in Group, Best in Show, Best Puppy in Show,
Best in Specialty and High in Trial, as
well as for those members whose dogs/bitches
are the sire of five champions (or multiples
of five champions), or the dam of three
champions (or multiples of three) champions;
members who are the breeders of five
champions; and
members whose dogs have won Reserve Winners
or higher at the Wassa Specialty; Best in
Sweepstakes at the Wassa Specialty, or Best
of Opposite to Best in Sweepstakes.
Please see our Annual Awards
Page for our 2009 Winners
WASSA
is also proud to offer the following
trophies:
This trophy is awarded to the winner of Best of Breed (BISS) at the
annual WASSA Specialty Show.
Barbara Maxine Templeman (1997) was an animal lover all of her life,
with a special soft spot in her heart for
her shelties. Her companions for years,
they were a loved and treasured part of her
life and her family is pleased to present
the Specialty Show Best of Breed Perpetual
Memorial Trophy in honour of her memory.
WASSA would like to thank Barbara’s husband and family for donating
this trophy in her memory.
This trophy is awarded to the winner of the Best Puppy in Breed (BPIS)
at the annual WASSA Specialty Show.
June was a founding member and the first president of WASSA, and is
considered by many to be a true historian of
the breed. She studied pedigrees and
genetics and spared no effort to improve her
breeding program and sharing her knowledge
with other sheltie breeders. She had a
successful breeding program under the TREMUR
kennel name and some of her dogs can be
found in the pedigrees of shelties all over
the world through the outstanding record of
one of the top producing shelties in
Canadian history – Ch. Goldenhylite’s The
Phantom, whose lineage traces directly back
to June’s dogs. The Phantom was used at
stud throughout Canada, the United States,
Japan, and a number of other countries.
To think that a founding member of WASSA, because of her breeding
program and dedication, has contributed to
and influenced shelties around the world is
an incredible accomplishment indeed. Her
legacy truly lives on …
WASSA would like to thank June’s husband and family for donating
this trophy in her memory.
This trophy is awarded to the top sheltie in obedience, owned by a
club member, earning a minimum of 15 points
at any level of obedience, with the
restriction that only three points are
eligible at the Novice level of
competition. The award is retroactive to
January 1987. The award is kept for one
year before it is passed on to the next
winning recipient.
Alice, of SANETTE SHELTIES, was an early
WASSA member, and one of the first to be
active in the obedience ring. She was
always supportive and encouraging to
everyone she knew ... and was a mentor to
many members and earned many obedience
titles on her dogs.
WASSA has donated this trophy in her memory.
Since 1996, Ms Alice Sparrow, of Winnipeg, has generously donated a
$50.00 cash award to the WASSA High in Trial
Winner at our Specialty Obedience Trial.
This annual cash award is separate from, and
in addition to, the prize offered by the
club, and is greatly appreciated by the
members of WASSA.
This trophy is awarded to the top sheltie in conformation, owned by
a club member, for having beat a minimum of
25 dogs at the Best of Breed Level or higher
in Canada.
In 1991, WASSA offered a challenge trophy whereby a Virginia Perry
Gardiner Limited Edition Cast Foundry Bronze
Sculpture of a Sheltie would be awarded to
the person who has won the WASSA Specialty
three times. In November 2007, Simone
Rudolph of Glamoor Shelties won this
prestigious award, almost 17 years after it
was first offered! Congratulations Simone!
In 2008, WASSA is once again proud to offer a new challenge trophy -
a limited edition cast in foundry bronze of
a sheltie mother and pups at play by artist
Rick Lingenfelter.
This beautiful bronze,
pictured below,
is number 3 of a strictly limited 15 piece edition,
after which
the mold was destroyed, thereby ensuring the rarity of this issue.
We are currently in the process of reviewing the awarding
and eligibility for this new challenge
trophy.
As well, we are currently in the process of
reviewing the offering of additional
versatility trophies and keepsakes to
recognize member achievements in different
areas of competition.
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