Past Honorees


2023 Person of the year


Vickie Jacobs


Vickie began lure coursing in 1984, and was a founding member of Heartland Coursing Association in Region 5. She worked all of their trials every year until the pandemic, serving variously roles as field clerk, Field Trial Chair, huntmaster and judge. She was also the long-time ASFA delegate and Secretary of HCA, and served several terms as President of HCA.
   She served as Field Trial Secretary for multiple Basenji Club of America National Specialty Field Trials, and was instrumental in bringing the Show-Me Basenji Club to host ASFA field trials, serving as Field Trial Secretary for most of their trials.
  She had a very successful breeding program under the kennel name Cynosure, and she bred and owned many generations (at least 10) of ASFA titled dogs, beginning with her first Basenji LCMs in the mid-1980’s. She finished her last ASFA title in 2017—over 30 years of ASFA titled hounds. She had BIF dogs and many dogs in the Top Ten. Her dogs often won, first the Cynosure Cup, and then the Anubis Cup, awarded to BOB Basenji at the Region 5 Invitational. She was the breeder and co-owner of the #1 ASFA coursing Basenji in 1997. She finished many dual champions and dogs with  multiple working titles (AKC obedience, tracking, barn hunt, scent work). Vickie always insisted that a well-rounded
Basenji had a title on both ends! She trained, showed and worked all of her dogs herself, with the occasional assistance of her husband or friends.
   She took on the job of ASFA Membership Chair in 1999, and held that job until 2015---ushering it into the electronic era. She became the ACoD planner in 2007 and held that position until her death. In fact, she planned the ACoD this year in Kansas City. ACoD Planner was a year-round job, with hotel selection and negotiation beginning at least two years before the ACoD. Vickie’s conventions seldom (if ever) lost money, and often showed a profit.
   She became an ASFA All-Breed judge in approx. 2006, and judged many local and Regional trials, National and Regional Breed Specialties, and the International Invitational.


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