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Our team, Time Bandits Flyball Club, has two
Ph.D.'s -- Victoria Lamont and Greg Williams (click here
for a photo); formerly, there were three, Patricia Harper being the third.
Our
team members own an average of 2.5 dogs each.
The span between our two most far-flung team members,
relative to our Toronto base, is 239 km, the distance between Kitchener, Ontario, and
Warkworth, Ontario.
At
different times, both Teresa Castonguay and former team member, Nancy Smith,
have lived in the rural community of Roseneath, Ontario.
The men on the team range in age from 42 to 55. There
is no known version of this statistic relating to the women on the team.
The women on the team outnumber the men, 6 members to 4.
Two of the three married men on the team (Richard Kelly and Greg
Williams) share the same anniversary date -- September 19. Chad Marquis is
the other married man.
Until recently, all three founding members of The Away Team still
with -- or again with -- the team, now called Time Bandits, still owned
their
original flyball dogs:
Teresa Castonguay's Tess, Viki Kidd's Shaunessey, and
Victoria Lamont's Wanda
in St. Clemens, Michigan, ca. 1993
Tess, Shaunessey,
and Wanda in Binbrook, Ontario, August 20, 2000
(This is the last known photo of Tess, who died September 10, 2000)
Among the dogs on the team, Shaunessey
has enjoyed the longest career in flyball. He began
with The Away Team in 1992; his final races before retirement took place at the Binbrook
tournament in August, 2000.
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Shaunessey (and friends) at
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Greg's Jack Russell Terrier, Bungee,
is the only dog ever to amass 5000 points in a single calendar year -- 1997 --
as a member of either The Away Team or Time Bandits Flyball Club.
The team's ONYX roster includes the following dogs: Digger,
Thunder, Keita, Ricki,
Sailor, and Shaq.
Richard Kelly's Digger and Evan Gross' Thunder hold the special distinction of being the only dogs in
this group to have earned their ONYX awards strictly as a member of the Away Team/Time
Bandits.
Viki's dogs -- Shaunessey,
Ivy, Brae, and Galla --
have collectively amassed the most points for racing in sanctioned
tournaments. As of June 23, 2003, they have accumulated 13598, 3581,
8146, and 16255, points respectively, or 41583 in total.
Various members of the Time
Bandits -- both active and retired -- have been associated with many other teams in the past, including Double Impact, Silver Bullets,
Bark 'n Fly, Hit 'N Run, Ricochets, MegaCity Motor Mutts, Leaps and Hounds, Paws
United, The Posse, Bad to the Bone, K9 Thunder, and Eastenders.
Time Bandits has practiced at three different
locations since its inception: Metropolitan United Church and Fort York in Toronto, and the Double
Impact training hall in Hornby, Ontario.
Three of our team's Border Collies are full brothers
from three different litters: Whisper (b. June 29, 1993), Brae (b. February 5, 1994), and Digger (b.
February 25, 1995), all offspring of Bess
and Kyle.
At least three dogs on the team were born during the last
week of February: Digger (Feb. 25), Keita (Feb. 27), and
Shaunessey (Feb. 28). Brae
was also born in February (Feb. 5), as were Richard's and Viki's Y2K puppies, Pyper
and Merle (Feb. 19).
The name "Kelly" holds special
significance for the team. Over the years, including when we were still
known as "The Away Team," two team members (Kelly Nesbitt, now no
longer with us, and Richard Kelly) have used the name, while one of our
original dogs was named "Kelly". The trend continues to the
present day: Richard is still with us, and one of our recent students was named
"Kelly".
Among
our dogs' names, none ranks high among the more popular, according to the
lengthy list published in Leslie Dunkling's The Guinness Book of Names
(London, 1989). "Misty" ranks at #57 and the next closest,
"Thunder," at #129. For more on the subject of names, refer to
the section, Our Dogs' Names.
Among
our team members' names, "Teresa" yields the largest number of
anagrams (Easter, eaters, reseat, and teaser), while the name "Carole"
is an anagram of "oracle". The name "Viki Kidd" uses
the "ki" sequence of letters twice in a row, a kind of repetition
similar to the literary device known as anadiplosis.
