08/03/2026
🏆🐾 **INTRODUCING EVOLUTION PERFORMANCE DOG SPORT ACADEMY** 🐾🏆
What happens after your dog learns the basics?
Where do you go when you and your dog are ready for a new challenge?
How can an everyday dog-and-handler team become involved in dog sports—even if they have never competed before?
Welcome to **Evolution Performance Dog Sport Academy**, also known as **EPSDA**.
EPSDA was created to provide dogs and handlers with an accessible, structured pathway from foundational obedience into performance training, dog sports, titles, personal achievement, and competition.
You do not need to be an experienced competitor.
You do not need a “perfect” dog.
You do not need to know which sport is right for you.
You simply need a desire to learn, work with your dog, and explore what the two of you may be capable of accomplishing together.
Through private coaching, assessments, workshops, clinics, practice opportunities, and community events, EPSDA will help handlers explore activities such as:
🏅 AKC Rally
🎯 AKC Obedience
🎓 Canine Good Citizen titles
🎭 AKC Trick Dog
🎾 AKC Fetch
🥾 AKC Fit Dog
💨 AKC Fast CAT preparation
🐾 Tracking and scent-based activities
🏆 Performance-event preparation
🤝 Handler development and ring-readiness coaching
EPSDA is also being developed as an educational and professional-development resource for people interested in the broader dog industry, including aspiring trainers, assistants, volunteers, apprentices, handlers, and future dog-sport professionals.
Our mission is to make dog sports and advanced training feel more welcoming, understandable, and accessible—especially for people and communities that have not traditionally had easy access to these opportunities.
Whether your goal is to earn your first title, strengthen your relationship with your dog, build confidence, improve your handling skills, prepare for competition, or simply discover a new activity together, EPSDA is here to help you find your pathway.
💗 **Foundations build skills. Performance reveals potential.**
Welcome to **Evolution Performance Dog Sport Academy.**
This is where obedience evolves into opportunity.
📍 Based in Louisville, Kentucky
🐾 Private coaching with workshops, clinics, seminars, and multi-venue activities
📩 Follow for program announcements, sport introductions, enrollment opportunities, events, and behind-the-scenes training.
