Friendship Academy

Friendship Academy is located easily off Highway 24 in the small community of Peyton, just outside Colorado Springs. We are on a beautiful 40 acres with spectacular views of Pikes Peak and the surrounding plains, less than 30 minutes from most Colorado Springs locations. We specialize in Agility training, from beginners to advanced competition level, and we also offer classes for Puppy, Basic family dog obedience, and occasionally Rally.

We provide a large, safe, comfortable training environment, with both indoor heated and outdoor training areas. More information on the training center is available via the link at the left. In 2006, we opened our new indoor 75 x 60 agility training building, which complements our existing 2500 square foot building. Please visit our Map / Location page for directions.

We encourage you to visit our facility and talk to Katrina about the options available to you.

Owner / Instructor Katrina Scott

Over 20 years of experience!

Katrina Scott began her dog-training career at the young age of twelve when she trained and showed her moms Irish Setter in obedience. At 18 she started her own dog-training business providing private lessons, behavioral evaluations, modifications and rescue dog temperament and placement evaluations. She soon began teaching obedience classes in a friend’s dog training business.

In 1998, when her advanced obedience students took an interest in agility, they asked her if she would teach it – so began a new venture. There weren’t too many opportunities in her area to take lessons but she took what she could, read every book, magazine and article she could find, attended any agility seminars that were available, and started showing her students what she learned. She is a true believer in continuous education and is always in a state of learning the newest training techniques and methods.

Teaching family dog obedience classes and working with so many different breeds provided a wonderful education and allowed her to gain a very broad training knowledge of many breeds. Many of her agility students compete with “non-traditional” agility breeds.

Katrina has a keen eye for the detail to improve a team’s performance regardless of venue. She addresses issues based on individual team needs and requirements, not those of a particular method or handling system. She is a true teacher and coach. Not only is she a proven competitor, but a solid instructor, with a clear vision of each individual team. So many trainers are very successful in the sport, but fail when it comes to conveying the information to a team. Katrina is the best of both worlds - a top-notch performer, and a sophisticated trainer; able to deliver her knowledge to her students and help them reach their true potential.

To see her accomplishments in Agility, please visit her dog's pages - links provided to the left.

Owner / Supporting Husband Greg Scott

It is only with Greg's support that Katrina was able to move to Colorado and build Friendship Academy into the business it is today. Though Greg is a software developer by day, it's his handyman skills that enabled FAAD to put up almost 10,000 square feet of indoor buildings, and create a flat 10,000 square foot outdoor agility arena.

He rented forklifts and friends to assemble the steel buildings, did all the electrical, used his tractor to grade the land and build fences, and financed most of the initial investment in FAAD.

It wasn't until 2005 that he took an interest in trying agility for himself - up until that point he was just a spectator! While fostering for Rocky Mountain Border Collie Rescue, Greg took an interest in a mostly white border collie named Skye. He decided to try agility with Skye and was hooked. They continued up through the class levels quickly, and they were successfully competing at their first trial in less than a year of training.

In 2008, he had the opportunity to acquire the brother of our dog Rush, so at 10 months, he adopted "Rhett", who was renamed to "Rip" when he arrived in Colorado, and began training his 2nd dog in agility. Read about Greg's dogs on their pages - links provided at the top left.