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2009 IDITAROD MUSHER SIGN UPS DRAW WORLD CLASS COMPETITORS
by staff
06/29/2008
(Wasilla, AK. June 28, 2008) The 2009 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race first day sign ups began at 9:30 am Alaska time at the Iditarod Trail Committee. By the end of the first draw deadline (12:30 pm Alaska Time) fifty one mushers had signed up for Iditarod XXXVII. The second draw concluded at 3:45 pm (Alaska Time) with seventeen additional mushers signing up. The first day sign up ended with sixty eight mushers signing up for "The Last Great Race on Earth."
Five Iditarod Champions (five time champion Rick Swenson, four time champions Jeff King and Martin Buser, two time and defending champion Lance Mackey and 2004 champion Mitch Seavey were on hand to sign up, along with a number of previous top ten Iditarod Finishers. Thus far fifteen rookies have signed up for the 2009 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Nearly 400 volunteers and mushers gathered at the Iditarod Trail Committee Headquarters. They were served a barbeque luncheon by the Millennium Alaska Hotel (The Official Hotel of the Iditarod trail Sled Dog Race). Gerry Willomitzer (Whitehorse, YT Canada) and Mike Williams (Aniak Alaska) won their $4,000 entry fees back in a final drawing that marked the end of the 2008 Volunteer Appreciation Picnic.
Below is a listing of mushers (in order of their draw):
Position | Status | First | Last | City | State | Country |
1 | Jerry | Sousa | Talkeetna | AK | ||
2 | Aliy | Zirkle | Two Rivers | AK | ||
3 | Rick | Swenson | Two Rivers | AK | ||
4 | Paul | Gebhardt | Kasilof | AK | ||
5 | R | Karin | Hendrickson | Chugiak | AK | |
6 | R | Tom | Thurston | Oak Creek | CO | |
7 | Sebastian S | Schnuelle | Whitehorse | YT | Canada | |
8 | Trent | Herbst | Ketchum | ID | ||
9 | R | Alan | Peck | Eagle River | AK | |
10 | Ed | Stielstra | McMillan | MI | ||
11 | R | Lou | Packer | Wasilla | AK | |
12 | Sonny | Lindner | Two Rivers | AK | ||
13 | Jeff | King | Denali | AK | ||
14 | Aaron | Peck | Berason | AB | Canada | |
15 | Debbie | Moderow | Anchorage | AK | ||
16 | R | Michael | Suprenant | Chugiak | AK | |
17 | Jake | Berkowitz | Anchorage | AK | ||
18 | Jim | Lanier | Chugiak | AK | ||
19 | Francine | Bennis | Trapper Creek | AK | ||
20 | Gary | Paulsen | Willow | AK | ||
21 | Warren | Palfrey | Yellowknife | NWT | Canada | |
22 | Robert | Nelson | Anchorage | AK | ||
23 | Matt | Hayashida | Willow | AK | ||
24 | Melissa | Owens | Nome | AK | ||
25 | Ryan | Redington | Wasilla | AK | ||
26 | R | Tim | Riley | Hastings | MI | |
27 | Jessie | Royer | Fairbanks | AK | ||
28 | Bruce | Linton | Kasilof | AK | ||
29 | Mike | Williams | Akiak | AK | ||
30 | John | Baker | Kotzebue | AK | ||
31 | Linwood | Fiedler | Willow | AK | ||
32 | Martin | Buser | Big Lake | AK | ||
33 | Ed | Iten | Kotzebue | AK | ||
34 | Rick | Larsen | Sand Coulee | MT | ||
35 | Bob | Hickel | Anchorage | AK | ||
36 | Ramey | Smyth | Willow | AK | ||
37 | R | Blake | Matray | Two Rivers | AK | |
38 | Judy | Currier | Two Rivers | AK | ||
39 | R | Rick | Horstmann | Willow | AK | |
40 | Mitch | Seavey | Seward | AK | ||
41 | Ray | Redington, Jr. | Wasilla | AK | ||
42 | Cim | Smyth | Big Lake | AK | ||
43 | DeeDee | Jonrowe | Willow | AK | ||
44 | Gerry | Willomitzer | Whitehorse | YT | Canada | |
45 | R | Nancy | Yoshida | Thompson | ND | |
46 | Silvia | Willis | Deshka Landing | AK | ||
47 | R | Chad | Lindner | Brocklyn | MA | |
48 | Bjornar | Andersen | Oslo | NORWAY | ||
49 | Alan | Moore | Two Rivers | AK | ||
50 | Laura | Daugereau | Port Gambel | WA | ||
51 | Hans | Gatt | Whitehorse | YT | Canada | |
52 | Lance | Mackey | Fairbanks | AK | ||
53 | Aaron | Burmeister | Nenana/Nome | AK | ||
54 | Hugh | Neff | Skagway | AK | ||
55 | R | Kim | Darst | Blairstown | NJ | |
56 | R | Brent | Sass | Fairbanks | AK | |
57 | Rachael | Scdoris | Bend | OR | ||
58 | R | Robert | Loveman | Seeley Lake | MT | |
59 | Sigrid | Ekran | Fairbanks | AK | ||
60 | Tim | Osmar | Ninilchik | AK | ||
61 | Ken | Anderson | Fairbanks | AK | ||
62 | R | Kurt | Reich | Divide | CO | |
63 | Cindy | Gallea | Seeley Lake | MT | ||
64 | Robert | Bundtzen | Anchorage | AK | ||
65 | Sven | Haltmann | Willow | AK | ||
66 | Blake | Freking | Finland | MN | ||
67 | Bill | Pinkham | Glenwood | CO | ||
68 | R | Wade | Marrs | Wasilla | AK |
For more information about the Volunteer Appreciation Picnic and musher sign ups, please contact Chas St. George at 907.232.0503.
