RUN IT! UKI WEST COAST OPEN 2026
The 2025 RUN IT! UKI West Coast Open will take place from October 1 - 4, at Paso Robles Horse Park, California.
The event is Open to all dogs and all handlers and there is no qualification necessary to enter.
The qualifying period for Byes for the event is
July 29, 2025 – July 27, 2026.
An overview of Byes and a Tracker which helps you to to keep track of your Q’s and byes can be downloaded here.
FUTURE DATES
The 2027 RUN IT! West Coast Open dates have not yet been announced.
ALL ABOUT THE RUN IT! UKI WEST COAST OPEN VENUE
Paso Robles Horse Park is in the northern part of Paso Robles. The natural beauty and property’s oak tree filled landscape, with vast views overlooking the hills of Paso Robles, made it an ideal setting for a competitive horse park. The Paso Robles Horse Park is located on 67 beautiful acres and features a large turf field and sixsand arenas. The venue has a large sloped hill overlooking the specialized engineered turf field. The Park features 224 onsitestalls, and theability to accommodate up to 500 temporary stalls, bathrooms, RV sites with hookups, a 5,000 square foot hay barn, three office buildings and parking for thousands of vehicles.
To visit the venue website, click here.
2026 RUN IT! WEST COAST OPEN JUDGES
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Grace Heck
I am Grace Heck, an agility competitor, mentor, and judge. When I discovered the sport of Agility over 12 years ago, my "just for fun" hobby quickly turned into a lifestyle, a calling, and a profession. Now I get to travel all over the world with my Border Collies, competing and teaching Agility.
As a judge, I try to design courses with fair spacing and natural lines for all sized dogs. I love creating courses where the optimal handling path is a puzzle, and allowing each team to solve it by playing to their strengths, trusting their skills, and laying it all out on the line. I love bringing the mental aspect of Agility into my course design, allowing for handlers to choose their own adventures, especially in Games!
I'm excited for the opportunity to judge the RUN IT! UKI West Coast Open, one of my favorite events to compete at! I hope you'll have as much fun racing your heart out as I will cheering you on.
To view a sample of Grace's courses, click here.
Meagan Johnson
Meagan Johnson is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer (Knowledge Assessed), a Certified Family Dog Mediator (FDM), and has studied under Michael Shikashio completing the Aggression in Dogs Master Course. 2019 was the year Meagan became a UKI judge and has attended the Global Judging Program 1 and 2 (twice). In 2023 she became a USDAA judge. She has judged several large events for both UKI and USDAA, and is absolutely thrilled and honored to be invited to judge her biggest assignment yet, the 2026 RUN IT! West Coast Open!
In 2020 Meagan founded Reactive and Distracted Agility, an organization built around dogs that struggle with traditional competition environments due to noise sensitivity, dog reactivity, or stranger danger. Behavioral struggles in sport dogs is a huge point of passion and is the crossroads of Meagan’s career and education.
Meagan’s own agility journey began in 2010 with her first dog Twig (Scottie mix), followed by Brix (Border Collie), Tia (Australian Shepherd), Coney (Shih-Tzu / Chihuahua mix), and Hanks (BorderPap Staffy mix). Every one of her dog’s journeys has been different, with challenges rising from motivation struggles, reinforcement questions, reactivity, over arousal, fear, hyper social, and more. Not only has Meagan learned so much from her own dogs, but also by working with and coaching hundreds of teams and families supporting their dogs in a variety of scenarios, whether sports or home based since 2012. Being a judge, behaviorist, competitor, and coach for over a decade allows Meagan to have a unique and holistic perspective on the student in front of her. She currently teaches agility in-person and virtually, as well as behavior modification and basic good dog stuff through her training business, www.RAD-Dogs.com
Meagan currently competes with Coney and Hanks! Most recently Hanks was the 12” Select Speedstakes Final Reserve Champion at the 2023 UKI US Open at just 18 months old! In 2024 Hanks was the 12” Pentathlon Champion at the SWAT Roadrunner Classics and 3rd Overall at the Southwest Cup. In 2025 Hanks was the 12” Pentathlon Champion at the DAWG 5’ O Clock Somewhere UKI Classic. At the 2024 UKI US Open both boys were finalists across multiple categories and Hanks won the Gamblers Final (5th in Games). At the 2025 1-TDC Invitational Hanks made it into the Blue Ribbon Finals!
To view a sample of Meagan's courses, click here.
Roman Lukáč
My name is Roman Lukáč and I’m 34 years old. I was born in Bratislava (Slovakia) and I have lived there for my whole life. In 2014 I completed Master’s study at University of Law in Bratislava and nowadays I’m working as a lawyer in one Slovak law firm.
It is possible to say that I was “born“ to agility, as my parents established this special sport in Slovakia, when I was a child. I started my agility career when I was 7 years old with our family dog Tomi – breed Lhasa Apso. For my 10th birthday, I got the most beautiful present from my parents, my first Border Collie named Baileys. I represented Slovakia with her in 2004 for the first time at Agility World Championship in Italy. In following years, I competed at Agility World Championship and European Open many times, later on I also have been a team leader and team assistant. During my career of handler, I have been competing and training in all height categories with our dogs or dogs of my friends. Nowadays I’m enjoying agility with my 8 year old Border Collie named Metaxa and each year I am also the organizer of many agility competitions together with our club. I have been the Slovak delegate of FCI Agility Commission since 2015 with motivation to help improve worldwide agility.
I became an agility judge at the beginning of the year 2012 and from this time I have been trying to improve myself in judging and also course designing. Until today I had judged outside of Slovakia in 27 other European countries, Canada, USA and Indonesia. In 2016 I judged the Junior European Open (nowadays JOAWC) as a home judge and in 2025 I judged the European Open in Portugal. Excepting the basic condition of course designing, which are for me the accordance with the rules and the safety, I’m trying to design a kind of challenge for handlers and their dogs. I’m always the most satisfied with courses that let handlers solve situations with different handling options and, at the same time, enjoy speed and fluency while showing all the different skills of the team.
I feel honored to be part of the Judges team at the RUN IT! West Coast Open 2026 and looking forward very much to meeting all competitors on the agility field there 😊
To view a sample of Roman's courses, click here.
Sangie Brooks
I started agility in 2008 with my lab learning the basics about agility. A few years later an amazing border collie came into my life. As I started competing with Vette, my passion for agility was truly realized. I traveled the country competing at big events and meeting amazing people along the way. Vette and I had the honor of representing the USA on four international teams. At the 2017 WAO, Vette was a gold medalist winning the 24” Pentathlon event.
After all the amazing friends and experiences agility had brought into my life, I decided it was time to give back to the agility world by becoming a UKI judge in 2018. I had some fabulous mentors along the way. I look at every judging assignment and competition as a learning opportunity for future course design. My goal is to try and design open, fast, motivating courses that I want to run.
I have judged UKI competitions across the USA. I have judged the US Open twice and several classics.
When not competing or judging UKI or AKC, you will find me at my day job as a senior operations manager for an accounting software company. I currently have three border collies, Creed, Krome, and Dexter.
I am super excited and honored to be invited to judge the RUN IT! West Coast Open.
To view a sample of Sangie's courses, click here.
