2021 National Open Championship (NOC) – KANSAS

Committee Members - Amelia Baxter, Jeff Brooks, Gary Davis, Jim Keller, Tom Nabity, Mhari Peschel, Steve Seltzer, and Franz Valkenberg

Gun Captains - Rick Halvorsen and Wayne Tisue

Guns - Cowan Clayton, Roger Thorne, Danny Hale Jr., Will Pick, Brandon Rogers and Chip Bunker

Marshals - Pat Bramwell Head Marshall,  Gail Reynolds, Steve Hoostal, and Mhari Peschel

Awards & Trophies - Robert Clayton, Chair

Bird Steward - Ray Hankins

Bird Planter - Danielle Hendrickson

Catalog Advertising - Sue Myers, Chair

Fundraising, Clothing, and Merchandise - Cristy Joy and Jeanne Nabity

Grounds - Chad Betts & Steve Seltzer, Co-Chairs

Hospitality - Steve Seltzer, Chair

Raffle Acquisitions - Cristy Joy, Chair

Monday, November 29th

9:00 AM Training - Birds are $15.00 each.

4:00 PM Delegates Meeting at Hotel

6:00 PM Purina Welcome Reception

Tuesday, November 30th

8:00 AM  Trial Begins

6:00 PM Cocktail Part at the Sandhills Event Center

4601 North Plum, Hutchinson, Kansas 67502

7:00 PM  Banquet at Sandhills Event Center

4601 North Plum, Hutchinson, Kansas 67502

Wednesday, December 1st

8:00 AM  Trial Continues / Dinner on your own

Thursday, December  2nd

8:00 AM  Trial Continues / Dinner on your own

Friday, December 3rd

8:00 AM  Trial Continues / Dinner on your own

Saturday, December 4th

8:00 AM  Trial Continues if necessary

Directions to Training Field – Follow map to grounds then go approximately one-quarter mile south on Partridge Rd to field entrance on east side of road.

Map - Hotel to Banquet

Map - Hotel to Grounds - All Land Series

Note:  Training November 29th. Birds are $15.00 each.

Map - Grounds to Water Series

Comfort Inn & Suites

1601 Super Plaza Avenue, Hutchinson, KS, 67501, US

Other Accommodations

In Hutchinson

Holiday Inn Express                         620-259-8656

Days Inn                                              620-708-4459

Hampton Inn                                      620-665-9800

Super 8                                                 620-663-7822

Fairfield Inn                                        620-259-8787

In South Hutchinson

Rodeway Inn                                       620-663-4444

Where to park the RV

In Hutchinson

Kansas State Fairgrounds

$30.00 / night self pay – full hookups – pull through

In Pretty Prairie Area

Cheney State Park

For reservations call 316-542-3664

Available sites are numbers 95 – 115 in the Smarsh Creek Area

These sites have electricity and water available.

These sites are also available on a walk-in basis but to reserve one call the number above.

To the Winner:

• The title of "National Springer Spaniel Field Champion"
• The title of "Field Champion"
• The Field and Stream Sterling Silver Challenge Trophy
• The Sterling silver Prescott Challenge Trophy
• The Trophy for Permanent Possession
• The Sterling Silver Saighton's Sizzler Challenge Trophy donated by John M. Olin.
• The Evelyn Monte Memorial Trophy presented by the Ladies Spaniel Field Trial Club of Greater Newark and Friends of Evelyn Monte to the First Place Dog and Owner. This is a perpetual trophy to be awarded annually at the National Open Championship.
• The Talbot Radcliffe Sterling Silver Cup. A perpetual trophy to be awarded annually to the breeder of the winning dog.
• Special AKC Rosette with Medals

For Second, Third and Fourth Place Winners:

• Trophies for permanent possession
• Special AKC Rosettes with Medals

For the Best Performance by a dog handled by an Amateur, provided the dog completes all series of the trial:

• Special AKC Rosette with Medal
• The Heather Challenge Trophy awarded to the best amateur handler. To win the amateur must have placed first, second, third or fourth or received a certificate of merit. The Dansmirth Trophy was retired in 2011 by John Hall handling the same dog, Heather.  In 2016 Jeff Miller retired the Heather Trophy and redonated it as a perpetual trophy.

The William E. & Patricia K. Lane Memorial Trophy (silver) presented by the Southern Michigan Springer Spaniel Training Club, Inc., is to be awarded to the best amateur handler in the National Championship. To qualify the amateur handler must place first, second, third, fourth or be awarded a certificate of merit. This is to be a perpetual trophy with no permanent possession. Each year the name of the winning handler and a date awarded is to be engraved on the reverse side of the trophy, is to remain in his or her custody for one year, to then be returned for presentation the following year at the National Championship.

Gunner's Trophy for the dog, in the judgement of the guns, "the dog they would most like to hunt over". Donated by ESSFT.COM