Sin City Mondio: OJ has been a great ambassador for USMRA, functioning as VP, collecting funds for a USMRA member to travel and represent the US at the World Championships, providing multiple opportunities for members to work their dogs in different locations with several different highly qualified decoys by putting on multiple trials and seminars. He has also spent countless hours reorganizing the decoy committee, implementing a new decoy certification process, and traveling as needed to see this large task through to success. He has had a lot of resistance with this and has always kept a cool and level head to further our sport. We feel he would be an excellent ambassador for USMRA.

Santa Clarita Mondio: This year he has rehauled the Decoy Certification. This took a long time and a ton of work. He also travelled to Colorado and helped with their trial and their first Decoy Certification. He has also spent thousands on bringing in some of the finest European decoys and judges, and allowed many to come to these seminars and learn.

OJ has gone above and beyond to help not only the Santa Clarita Mondio Club, but to help the sport in general. He spends countless hours of his time helping people with their dogs, hosting clinics, trials and giving insight to decoys. He is always willing to lend a hand when someone gets “stuck” with their dog.

He is a great ambassador for the sport in general. He speaks about it to various groups of people, educating and explaining what Mondioring is, and inviting them to events. When hosting clinics, he invites people from all over and not just his club, because he understands the value of bringing all different levels of dogs and handlers together. During clinics, he ensures that any club decoys present spend time with the clinic decoy, to learn as much as possible.

As the Board of Directors Vice President and as the Decoy Committee chair, OJ has assisted in resolving the tax issues facing the USMRA and he re-designed the decoy certification process. The decoy certification process is now much more comprehensive and overall safer. OJ dealt with a lot of adversity from all over USMRA when the process was redesigned, however, he did not waiver from changing it. He did not become involved in the public backlash that permeated the Yahoo group emails and various Facebook pages during the redesigning process.
OJ is able to remain calm and fair under pressure. Some of the decisions made by the Board of Directors are unpopular, but he stands behind his decisions and opinions and does not waiver. If he sees unfairness, he is willing to step up and bring that unfairness to light. Not everyone has the gumption to stand up for what is fair, but he does not hesitate.