Meet the Flight Crew

Angela is the founder and owner of TopFlight Farm (est. 2022) located in rural Chapel Hill, North Carolina living her childhood dream of working with horses and dogs! She started in the equestrian world with shetland ponies, quarter horses and warmbloods working in jumping, dressage and eventing. Over the years the focus turned from horses to dogs where she has been training and competing in AKC obedience and confirmation (the early years); but most recently has found a LOVE FOR AGILITY!

Agility and Hunter/Jumper worlds share a lot of similarities, and Angela quickly recognized a need to improve the way we maintain our animal athletes’ bodies to perform at their highest competitive levels. In addition to the rigors of training for the sport of choice, the need to condition them to perform became a passion.

As a result, she enthusiastically obtained her certification in Equine Sports Massage Therapy, Canine Message Therapy, as well as Canine Fitness and Conditioning.

Angela lives in Chapel Hill with her 4 dogs: Mona Lisa, Lily, Graphene and Groot! They are competing and/or training agility and nosework.

Joined the team March 2, 2020

Our first crew member- a playful and loving soul with a carefree disposition, she is a tri-color Bernedoodle from South Florida who brought me to our agility journey! She loves hiking, people, and has earned the name “the Huntress” due to her innate ability to tree possums, chase squirrels and see deer on the farm at the slightest movement. She plays at agility and has started Nosework!

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Joined the team July 25, 2022

After a short introduction to agility, Lily, a smooth coat black and white border collie, began her transition from a working herding dog to a full time agility partner with me. She and I have made great strides in the sport and have already acquired strong placements in competition. She loves the sport and working with me as a team. She is “My Shadeux” being always at my side everywhere I go!! And watch out for her stiletto tongue kisses!!

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Joined the team March 25, 2023

What an agility wonder! Many may know Graphene, from the amazing Sage Hill line. She joins Topflight bringing award winning experience to strengthen the team and help me navigate this incredible sport-agility. She is a rough coat tri-color border collie with amazing freckles.

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Joined the team March 25, 2023

I AM GROOT! Groot is a red merle Border Collie puppy, and our newest crew member. As a matter of fact “groot” in Dutch means “BIG” and Groot will be a BIG boy. He is playful, strong, smart and a natural in sports. I am so excited to watch his budding athleticism become a force of nature to be reckoned with in this sport -agility! We are Groot!!

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