Is your local agility group USDAA, AKC, or NADAC? Our group is primarily USDAA, but we run in all associations. I've never run NADAC, but Shelley is one Q short of her Excellent titles in AKC and has her Agility Dog and Advanced Jumpers titles in USDAA. If we ever start running NADAC we ought to breeze through the Novice level . . .
The one everyone I know goes to is AKC. The one I trained at in E. TX was not AKC, but I don't recall which group they were with. I never got that far.
susie