Meet the Team
Julianna
"Jules"
Canine Strength & Conditioning Coach (CSCC)
Julianna is a student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine with her VMD anticipated in May 2026. She currently holds a Canine Strength & Conditioning Coach (CSCC) certification. Jules was a division one athlete, playing Field Hockey for The Ohio State University. She routinely worked with a personal trainer to achieve sport specific fitness goals, hence her love for tailoring sport specific fitness programs to canines. Jules spent the 2024 summer at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center with the Penn Vet Sport's and Performance Medicine team assisting in research projects, dog training, and medical evaluations and interventions. In addition to her training at PennVet, she has externed with Florida Veterinary Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, University of Tennessee's Veterinary Sports Medicine and Physical Rehabilitation, Texas A & M's Veterinary Emergency Team, and will be externing with Cornell University's Sport's Medicine department in spring 2025. Jules was a recipient of the AKC Veterinary Outreach Scholarship in 2024, where she was recognized for her dedication to the health and welfare of dogs. She has experience in training agility, nosework, herding, and dock diving in addition to instructing two AKC Canine Good Citizen test prep classes. She now finds herself training as a Wilderness Search and Rescue k9 handler with her dog Foxy.
Kristina
Certified Canine Athlete Specialist (CCAS)
NASM- Certified Personal Trainer (PT)
UESCA- Certified Running Coach
Kristina is a student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine with her VMD anticipated May 2025. She is a Certified Canine Athlete Specialist (CCAS) and she holds National Academy of Sports Medicine Personal Trainer Certification as well as United Endurance Sports Coaching Academy Running Coach Certification. She completed an immersive personal training internship at Binghamton University, where they engaged in a blend of in-depth lectures and hands-on training, learning exercise physiology, coaching techniques, and program design. This experience provided a comprehensive foundation and sparked her love for program design. She is currently a human strength and running coach for Team Run Run. She has experience with the PennVet Working Dog Center and their fitness, detection, and law enforcement training and has participated in research about occupational hazards of wilderness SAR K9s. She has also completed the PennVet Working Dog Center’s Working Dog Practitioner Program’s online modules and in person training. In addition to her training at PennVet and through the CCAS program, Kristina has externed with Cornell University’s Sports Medicine, University of Missouri Sports Medicine, and Veterinary Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Group. She has experience in dogs sports such as disc, agility, herding, obedience, and canicross. Kristina has experience teaching classes outside of fitness, including Canine Good Citizen and cooperative care, as well as assisting clients 1:1 with behavior modification. Working and sporting dogs have combined her interests of exercise physiology, canine occupational health, and emergency response. Kristina is training as an area search K9 handler for wilderness search and rescue with her border collie, Summit.
Foxy
Foxy is a 4 year old Belgian Malinois mix who is one of our demo dogs. Fox has participated in a variety of dog sport classes and loves to try new activities. She currently finds herself training as a Wilderness Search and Rescue K9. Foxy loves anything that has to do with a ball or tug!
Summit
Summit is a 4 year old border collie who has the pleasure of being one of our demo dogs. Handled by Kristina, Summit is currently training as a Wilderness Search & Rescue K9. While she has dabbled in a little bit of everything, her favorite activities are disc, tug, and running as fast as possible!
Luther
Luth is a 5 year old German Shepherd Dog who will be making special guest appearances. Luther recently started dock diving and sheep herding, however Luth’s most favorite pass-time activities are chasing birds and frisbees, and hiking.