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Molly Yazwinski
Scratches in White Mountain
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Molly scratched near the end of the 2008 Iditarod
Trail Sled Dog Race. Yazwinski is
doing fine
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Molly Yazwinski had a long
break back in Kaltag after having to drop some key
dogs and regroup, but she’s continuing on up
the trail and expected to finish, said David
Monson, here in Nome to greet Yazwinski. She’s
running dogs from the kennel of Monson and Susan
Butcher in this year’s race.
Bio
2008 Rookie
Molly Yazwinski, 26, was born and raised in
Deerfield, Massachusetts, where she grew up working
on the family's dairy farm. She raised her own
flock of sheep as a 4-H project and gained
experience training border collies for
livestock/farm work and herding trials. She
graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont in
2004 with a degree in biology. While in college she
ran competitively on the NCAA DIII cross-country
team. She says she continues to run road races and
has finished three marathons. "My mother raced a
sprint team on the New England circuit in the
1970's and her aunt mushed dogs in Alaska during
the 1980's, so she says she grew up hearing a few
mushing stories. "Mom's sleds still hang in the
garage and on occasion, we sometimes hook up a team
of border collies. When she was six, she and her
mom traveled to Alaska to visit her aunt and she
was in Nome to see the finish of the Iditarod.
Since she graduated from college, she has spent the
summer months back in Massachusetts working on the
dairy farm and other shepherding jobs and the
winters in Fairbanks mushing dogs where I have been
a handler for Susan Butcher and Dave Monson. "I
decided to run the Iditarod this winter after
having traveled part of the trail in March of 2007
with Tekla and Dave. We experienced the energy and
atmosphere of the Race and traveled through some
spectacular country. In the 2008 Iditarod I will be
mushing a team from Trail Breaker Kennel. I have
been working with many of these dogs for three
years and I am excited to see how they will perform
in the Race. I am deferring my enrollment at
Cornell Veterinary School for one year in order to
have the opportunity to run Iditarod. Then I plan
to pursue a career in veterinary medicine with a
focus on large animal medicine and serving rural
communities.
Results
Molly
Yazwinski Scratches in White Mountain
Molly Yazwinski, (Bib #62) scratched at 8:00 am
(March 17, 2008) in White Mountain Checkpoint. The
26 year old rookie musher from Fairbanks Alaska
left White Mountain in hopes of reaching Nome late
this afternoon. She returned to White Mountain at 8
am and scratched citing concerns over the health of
her team. Yazwinski had 9 dogs on her team when she
scratched.
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