Rachael and Dan Brinkman are the dock’s owner/trainers with many years of experience training dogs for many different training disciplines. They’ve has trained their dogs for various competitive sports including obedience, rally, whippet racing, flyball, frisbee, and dock diving. Rachael has been training for nearly 40 years, stemming from parents that were active in dog training and competition.
Rachael and Dan have several dogs that actively compete in multiple dog sports. They compete at World Championship levels in several different sports with their dogs. Their dogs have set more than 20 world records in 5 different dock diving organizations, one which landed them into Guiness World Records in 2019! They have taken podium with multiple dogs in every dock diving discipline, in every organization’s championship they’ve ever attended.
They started a dock diving club in Michigan in 2016, and opened their own pool in 2018. Since then they’ve offered private lessons, seminars, competitions, and more learning opportunities for the community.
Rochelle Carr is Einstein Dock Diving’s trainer with lots of experience in dog sports. Rochelle has been competing in dog sports for 13 years. She started with disc (frisbee) and slowly added dock diving and shed hunting. She has competed at both the local and national level in all three sports with multiple dogs,
Rochelle has been actively competing in dock diving since 2017. She has trained and competed with 7 dogs along with having an up and coming puppy. Each one of her dogs have distinct styles and preferences. She has learned to adapt her throw and approach to get the best performance out of each dog. She enjoys working through each dog and finding the way to get the best out of them.
Rochelle and her dogs have achieved numerous top three placements with multiple organizations. Her dogs compete in all dock disciplines. They have attended 5 disc world and international finals, 2 shed hunt nationals, and 6 dock championships with numerous top three finishes.
Rochelle has also taken dozens of training seminars, including multiple dock diving seminars. She’s also been training with us here at Einstein for more than 5 years. She looks forward to helping your dogs reach their potential on the dock this summer!