2021 90:/5 March Season Patch

Description

2021 90:/5 March Season

Dog: Holly (? – 2020)
Shetland Sheepdog of Diane Smith, Columbus, Ohio

Champ: St. Louis

# of Clubs: 86

# of Teams: 1,829

Complete Season Results

2021 90:/5 March Season Toss & Fetch League Commemorative Patch

HOLLY, SHE RAN WITH THE BIG DOGS

If you were a disc dogger in the Midwest USA over the last 10 years, chances are you smiled and cheered on this super-cute, energetic, always happy Shetland Sheepdog (Sheltie) from Columbus, Ohio play the game.

That tiny ball of flying fur was Holly, Diane Smith’s beloved Sheltie who gently passed in early 2020, and who we pay tribute to on this 90:/5 March 2021 Season patch.

Holly and Diane were fixtures at every event hosted by the Southern Ohio Flying K9’s, and while there were a lot of them, Holly needed more K9 Frisbee in her life. In the Summer of 2016, Holly’s love for the game, prompted Diane to corral 16 other SOFK9ers to form the Columbus, Ohio K9 Frisbee Toss Club, the 8th Club to join the League.

Under Diane’s Captainship, K9 Frisbee in Columbus exploded. After just a couple season, the Club grew so much it cleaved into 3 sister Clubs, two in the Columbus area (Gahanna and Delaware) and one in Dayton, and a couple years later, also helped spawn the Cincinnati Club.

Thanks to Holly and Diane, more than 140 Southern and Central Ohioans and their dogs play in the K9 Frisbee Toss & Fetch Worldwide League.

Holly’s played in the days before the League began the new Tiny Dog Category, but it didn’t matter to her. She ran with the big dogs and proved that any breed of any size could play and love the game.