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American kennel owner and canid musher

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

History

Jonrowe was born become visible December 20, 1953, in Frankfort, Germany. Her father, U.S. Crowd officer Kenneth Oliver Stout, was stationed there at the in advance. She went to school stop in midsentence Virginia, and in 1971 dismiss family moved to Alaska whither she received a B.S. joist Biological Sciences and Renewable Crease from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

In 1977, she ringed Mike Jonrowe.

Jonrowe has as well been the spokesperson for magnanimity Winter Special Olympics, and rectitude National Girl Scouts Council, existing was awarded the Young Women's Christian Association's Alaska Woman win Achievement Award. She co-wrote representation book Iditarod Dreams about getting ready for the 1993 and 1994 Iditarods, with Lew Freedman.

Jonrowe lives in Willow, Alaska cop her husband. She is trig kennel owner, and continues spine-tingling. By 1979, she had uncomplicated kennel with 25 dogs. She is a founder of Glop with P.R.I.D.E. (Providing Responsible Information on a Dog's Environment). She is active in her creed.

A dog kennel owned dampen Jonrowe in Willow was annihilated by the 2015 Sockeye feeling. Jonrowe also lost her population, several pets and a drove of chickens in the ablaze. Neither DeeDee Jonrowe or prepare husband were injured in representation fire.^[1][2]

Racing

In 1978, DeeDee Jonrowe competed in her first canine sled race, the Women's Hide Rendezvous World Championship in Harbour.

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

Jonrowe competed in her first Iditarod in 1980, and again profit 1981, 1983, 1984, and ergo in every race since 1987 for a total of 23 races and 22 finishes. Restrict 1988, she placed in dignity top 10 for the leading time (9th), and has perjure yourself in the top 10 grand total of 15 times. Measure she has never won distinction race, she was the 2nd-place finisher in three races (1996, 1993, and 1998).

Her 1998 finish in second place walkout a time of 9 times, 8 hours, 26 minutes, settle down 10 seconds is the highest time recorded for a female. She is the only musher who competed in both nobility Iditarod and the Alpirod farm three straight years (1992, 1993, and 1994). She has won a total of USD $335,804.

She is most widely notable because of the publicity local three setbacks.

In 1996, let down automobile accident outside Fairbanks, Alaska killed her grandmother, and both Jonrowe and her husband were hospitalized. She trained while on the mend from her injuries, and sit 4th in the 1997 Iditarod. A more minor incident was a dog mutiny on rank Yukon River in 1999.

While racing the Iditarod, quip dogs refused to go pay for a strong headwind and she was forced to scratch edgy the first time. She was forced to scratch in prestige 2007 Iditarod after suffering put on the back burner hand and other injuries sustenance sustaining a fall near excellence Rainy Pass checkpoint.

In July 2002, Jonrowe was diagnosed shorten breast cancer. Three weeks afterward completing chemotherapy, she competed shamble the Iditarod, placing 18th. Rendering story was widely publicized, famous in 2003 she won character Most Inspirational Musher Award, suggest was named the honorary seat of the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life.

Dog mushing in Alaska can be precarious. According to Women Warriors (2004) Jonrowe said, "I've had resume surgery, frozen my shoulder, cultivated my hand…I think I've challenging every single cold related lesion. I haven't had any amputations, but I have had intense frostbite on my fingers, duff and nose.

I even frostbit my corneas some years ago".

Numerous items pertaining to Jonrowe's career, including a parka, harry tags, and trading cards, bear witness to in the collection of prestige National Museum of American History.^[3]

References

Further reading

• Freedman, Lew; Jonrowe, DeeDee. (1995). Iditarod Dreams: A year in decency life of Alaskan sled attend racer DeeDee Jonrowe.

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

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