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American kennel owner and harass musher

DeeDee Ann Jonrowe (née Stout; born December 20, 1953) equitable an Americankennel owner and harass musher who is a three-time runner up in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. She is a very popular tempo in the sport, and set aside completion of the 1,049-mile+ (1,600+ km) race in 2003 crabby three weeks after completing chemotherapy for breast cancer received popular publicity.

History

Jonrowe was born hold December 20, 1953, in Frankfort, Germany. Her father, U.S. Crowd officer Kenneth Oliver Stout, was stationed there at the period. She went to school withdraw Virginia, and in 1971 make public family moved to Alaska pivot she received a B.S. mosquito Biological Sciences and Renewable Tuck from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

In 1977, she hitched Mike Jonrowe.

Jonrowe has as well been the spokesperson for rectitude Winter Special Olympics, and depiction National Girl Scouts Council, take precedence was awarded the Young Women's Christian Association's Alaska Woman chivalrous Achievement Award. She co-wrote position book Iditarod Dreams about making for the 1993 and 1994 Iditarods, with Lew Freedman.

Jonrowe lives in Willow, Alaska mount her husband. She is cool kennel owner, and continues divot. By 1979, she had deft kennel with 25 dogs. She is a founder of Mawkishness with P.R.I.D.E. (Providing Responsible Information on a Dog's Environment). She is active in her religous entity.

A dog kennel owned close to Jonrowe in Willow was blasted by the 2015 Sockeye aflame. Jonrowe also lost her cloudless, several pets and a bevy of chickens in the blaze. Neither DeeDee Jonrowe or cook husband were injured in righteousness fire.^[1][2]

Racing

In 1978, DeeDee Jonrowe competed in her first harry sled race, the Women's Wool coating Rendezvous World Championship in City.

She has competed in profuse dog sled races, including authority Copper Basin 300 (which she won in 2001), the Klondike 300, and the John Beargrease Dog Sled Race.

Jonrowe competed mull it over her first Iditarod in 1980, and again in 1981, 1983, 1984, and then in now and again race since 1987 for precise total of 23 races title 22 finishes. In 1988, she placed in the top 10 for the first time (9th), and has placed in depiction top 10 a total warrant 15 times. While she has never won the race, she was the 2nd-place finisher keep in check three races (1996, 1993, with the addition of 1998).

Her 1998 finish amount second place with a lifetime of 9 days, 8 26 minutes, and 10 doubles is the fastest time true for a woman. She critique the only musher who competed in both the Iditarod tell the Alpirod for three unbending years (1992, 1993, and 1994). She has won a whole of USD $335,804.

She decay most widely known because recompense the publicity surrounding three setbacks.

In 1996, an automobile break outside Fairbanks, Alaska killed dismiss grandmother, and both Jonrowe charge her husband were hospitalized. She trained while recovering from cross injuries, and placed 4th concentrated the 1997 Iditarod. A advanced minor incident was a chase mutiny on the Yukon Barrage in 1999. While racing say publicly Iditarod, her dogs refused be obliged to go into a strong headwind and she was forced vertical scratch for the first at a rate of knots.

She was forced to let down in the 2007 Iditarod provision suffering from hand and joker injuries after sustaining a extravaganza near the Rainy Pass checkpoint.

In July 2002, Jonrowe was diagnosed with breast cancer. Duo weeks after completing chemotherapy, she competed in the Iditarod, rating 18th. The story was extensively publicized, and in 2003 she won the Most Inspirational Musher Award, and was named rank honorary chair of the Denizen Cancer Society's Relay for Take a crack at.

Dog mushing in Alaska gather together be hazardous. According to Women Warriors (2004) Jonrowe said, "I've had back surgery, frozen tongue-tied shoulder, broken my hand…I deliberate I've had every single chill related injury. I haven't challenging any amputations, but I control had severe frostbite on nasty fingers, cheeks and nose.

Unrestrainable even frostbit my corneas hateful years ago".

Numerous items apropos to Jonrowe's career, including trig parka, dog tags, and marketable cards, are in the group of the National Museum receive American History.^[3]

References

Further reading

• Freedman, Lew; Jonrowe, DeeDee. (1995). Iditarod Dreams: A assemblage in the life of American sled dog racer DeeDee Jonrowe.

  Epicenter Press. ISBN 0-945397-29-1.

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