• Management – proven ability to manage a large working kennel. Strong skills in communication, finances, animal husbandry, development of breeding and nutrition programs, development and execution of training schedules, and running successful races.
• Marketing – accomplished in becoming one of a few professional mushers with the ability to earn financial backing. Understands needs of sponsors and how to help them with utilization of the media.
• Team building – implementation of team building as it applies to sled dogs, and effective use of this analogy to train people.
• Motivation – encouraging personal history regarding overcoming obstacles, storms, losses, and hardships. Ability to impart motivation to audiences.

Experience

DOGSLED RACING

• Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race – run 30 times since 1980. Best finish 2nd place (2 times).
• John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon – run 4 times, champion and record holder 1989.
• Alpirod – run 4 times in Europe, 2nd place (2 times).
• Kuskowim 300 Sled Dog Race – run 9 times, best finish 3rd place.
• Don Bowers Memorial Sled Dog Race – run 3 times, won 3 times.
• Tustumena 200 Dog Sled Race – run 2 times, best finish 4th place.
• Kobuk 440 – run once, finished 4th place.
• Knik 200 Dog Sled Race – run 4 times, best finish 2nd place.
• Copper Basin 300 – run 4 times, best finish champion.
• Fur Rondy Women’s Championship Sled Dog Race – run once, finished 10th place.
• Klondike 300 Sled Dog Race – run 3 times, best finish champion.
• Numerous other rural Alaskan dog sled races.

SPONSORS
Twenty years experience working with Shell, Eli-Lilly, Spenard Builder’s Supply, Taco Bell Alaska, Microsoft, and other sponsors. Work included participation in corporate speaking events, team building, motivational speaking, public appearances, ads, and television commercials.

MEDIA

• Featured character in Discovery Channel series TOUGHEST RACE ON EARTH: IDITAROD.
• Subject of award winning documentary IRONWOMAN: THE DEEDEE JONROWE STORY.
• Author of the book Iditarod Dreams.
• Profiled in magazines Sports Illustrated, Redbook, Outside, Christian Reader, and others.
  

Awards

DOG SLED RACING

• Iditarod – Most Inspirational Musher Award (2 times), Halfway Point Award (2 times), Alaska Airlines Leonhard Seppala Humanitarian Award (2 times ) , Tesoro Alaska Joe Redington, Sr. Award, Sportsmanship Award, and member of the Iditarod Hall of Fame.
• John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon – Best Cared for Team.
• Copper Basin 300 – Humanitarian Award.
• Alpirod – Best Cared for Team.

HUMANITARIAN

• Arctic Sports Medicine Institute – Arctic Human Performance Award.
• Bureau of Land Management – Alaska Hero Award.
• YWCA – Alaska Woman of Achievement Award.
• Alaska State Legislature – Accommodation.
• Outdoor Channel – Circle of Honor Award.
• Federation of Women Interagency Committee – Women Blaze the Trail Award.
• Angel Foundation – Humanitarian Award.