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What are the Cardinal Crystal Grooming Achievement Awards?
The Cardinal Crystal
awards program for competitive groomers honors those professional
groomers by recognizing outstanding achievement in six different
categories. The awards pay tribute to a variety of specific
qualifications for each category in addition to technical merit. The
Groomers qualifications must be listed at the time of nomination and are
verified before they are eligible for the ballot.
The Cardinal Crystal
Awards were conceived in 1988 by Tony DeVos, President of Cardinal
Laboratories and Shirlee Kalstone, then owner of the International
Intergroom trade show for competitive grooming, for the purpose of
establishing standards of grooming excellence and
recognizing professional skills in the competitive grooming
industry.
How are the nominees for the Cardinal Crystal Grooming Achievement
Awards chosen?
Nomination forms are
distributed to grooming trade magazines that voluntarily print them in
their winter issues and to grooming organizations that request them.
Nominations close every January and are for the previous year. Grooming
professionals can also go directly to
cardinalpet.com, the official website for Cardinal, where they will
be directed to the newly formed site dedicated to the Cardinal Crystal
Awards:
CardinalCrystalAwards.com
There they will find
a nomination ballot available during the Nominating time frame. The form
must be filled out with the proposed nominees specific qualifications
according to the criteria listed for the specific category for the
nomination. Nominations must be submitted by qualified members of the
competitive grooming industry.
Who Can Nominate a Competitive Groomer?
To nominate and vote
in the Cardinal Crystal Grooming Achievement Awards you must be a
professional groomer conducting or working in a grooming business
(salon, mobile, or in-home shop); a competitive groomer; a judge of
grooming competitions; and instructor of a grooming school or program; a
member of a grooming association; a journalist who covers the field of
grooming or has published a book or text book specifically on grooming;
a free-lance groomer who trains, educates, presents seminars or works
for a manufacturer, retailer or catalog in a grooming capacity or as a
grooming expert; a bather who works for a grooming establishment, a
retired groomer who follows competitive grooming or a member of the
Cardinal Crystal Grooming Academy, which is comprised of past winners.
Grooming students are not eligible. If you have a question about your
status to nominate or vote, please send it via email to
Awards@CardinalCrystalAwards.com If you have not voted before,
please send an email to submit your grooming status for verification or
your vote will not be counted.
What is the Final Voting Procedure?
The five individuals
(or organizations) who are most qualified and receive the most
nominations are tabulated by an outside company for Cardinal. Those
names are put on the Official Voting Ballot. The ballot is posted on the
Cardinal website and published in Grooming and Pet trade magazines
including: Grooming Business, Groomer-To-Groomer, Pet Business and Pet
Age magazines. It is also distributed to national and international
grooming associations, magazines or newsletters that request them. Only
one vote per qualified person per category is allowed.
When and Where are the Awards Presented?
The Cardinal Crystal
Awards for Grooming Achievement are presented annually at the
International INTERGROOM show, usually the second or third week in
April. More information about the Intergroom Show can be found at
www.Intergroom.com Traditionally, this show is host to many
International grooming competitors and is held at a venue in Northern
New Jersey.
The Intergroom Show
hosts a gala formal dinner dance during which the Cardinal Crystal’s are
presented.
The
Categories:
The American
Groomer of the Year
recognizes an Outstanding American Groomer.
Criteria:
grooming ability, professional spirit and attitude, integrity, courtesy
and good sportsmanship, condition of the dogs presented in competition,
knowledge and application of the correct breed standards for appearance,
humaneness to animals and, especially, the groomers wins, awards and
accomplishments in the competitive ring during the year previous to
voting.
The International
Groomer of the Year commends an
outstanding groomer from a country other than the United States.
Criteria is the same as it is for the American Groomer
Criteria:
grooming ability, professional spirit and attitude, integrity, courtesy
and good sportsmanship, condition of the dogs presented in competition,
knowledge and application of the correct breed standards for appearance,
humaneness to animals and, especially, the groomers wins, awards and
accomplishments in the competitive ring during the year previous to
voting.
Grooming
Contest Judge of the Year
recognizes the outstanding female or male from the
United States of another country who has made a valuable contribution to
the grooming world as a contest Judge.
Criteria:
knowledge of breeds and their grooming procedures, knowledge of the
rules of the contest being judged, good judgment of the competitor’s
grooming ability, honest, integrity and courage of convictions.
Outstanding
Grooming Journalist of the Year salutes a
writer, editor or publisher who has most helped advance grooming
education and/or the grooming profession during the past twelve month
period.
Criteria: The
writer, editor or publisher who has done the most to promote an interest
in the grooming profession through articles in magazines, newspapers or
on-line via website columns or blogs, or has informed readers about
grooming news, competitive results or grooming instruction or techniques
in a professional grooming trade magazine, a writer who has had a
grooming column or regular grooming feature in a published grooming or
pet magazine that was of consistently high caliber; or a writer, editor
or publisher of an article or book about grooming techniques, operating
a grooming business or a grooming text book during the previous year.
The Congeniality Award pays tribute
to the man or woman from the United States or another country who has
demonstrated good-fellowship, good humor, support and other positive
attributes which have bettered the grooming profession or consistently
helped and encouraged other fellow competitive groomers during the past
year.
Criteria:
Outstanding sportsmanship, congenial attitude, amicability, good humor,
camaraderie, humaneness to animals, encouragement and support of fellow
groomers, positive attitude and friendliness to associates as well as
the general public.
The David G.
Salzberg Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Individual or
Organization This
category for Outstanding contributions to the competitive grooming
industry and groomers in general is currently given in honor of David G.
Salzberg, former owner of The Village Groomer in Walpole, Massachusetts,
who was an example of an individual who personally inspired groomers and
supported the advancement of the grooming industry.
Criteria:
The award specifically honors the Grooming Individual or Organization
that has contributed most significantly to the advancement of the
grooming industry through personal service or research during the past
12 months.
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