Susan Butcher Speech Preview

Premiere Speakers Bureau: Exclusively Representing the World's Most Compelling Speakers Susan Butcher, The Foremost Representative of Dog Sled Racing Worldwide Born on December 26, 1954, Susan Butcher lives on a homestead in Alaska. A professional musher, dog breeder and trainer, she is the first person to win the Iditarod three consecutive times. She holds the record for the fastest completion of seven different races, and has proved herself as the number-one musher in the world by breaking nine speed records in major international races. This includes the Iditarod record which she broke by an amazing 31 hours. Since 1982, Susan has been the foremost representative of Dog Sled Racing worldwide. She also operates the Trail Breaker Kennels at her home, and owns 150 Alaskan Huskies. Her speeches and slide shows about her lifestyle in Bush Alaska and her athletic endeavors as a racer invigorate and delight audiences. Her interest in the sport of dogsled racing began at age 16, when she taught her first Husky to pull a sled. In 1972, she moved to Colorado, where she ran fifty Huskies owned by a local musher. She moved to the Wrangell Mountains in Alaska in 1975 to start her own kennel of Alaskan Huskies. In 1978, she ran her first Iditarod, becoming the fourth woman to complete the race and the first to place in the money, finishing 19th. She bettered her own record in 1979 by breaking the...

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