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In a year of many firsts for mushing, Lance Mackey has become the first Alaskan musher in history to be nominated for an ESPY award. Lance has broken records, survived cancer and overcome many obstacles to make this honor a reality.  Not only does the ESPY award recognize the achievements of great athletes - it raises awareness for the ongoing battle against cancer.  ESPN and the V Foundation use this great event to raise awareness and funds to continue the battle against cancer. Lance would almost certainly agree with the late Jimmy Valvano's quote, "Don't give up. Don't ever give up."

Lance is nominated for the Best Outdoor Athlete

June 25, 2007 – Lance Mackey Nominated for ESPY Award

Anchorage, Alaska, June 2007- Lance Mackey, the 2007 Iditarod and Yukon Quest Champion has been nominated for an ESPY Award, category “Best Outdoor Athlete”.  Lance is the first Alaskan musher ever nominated for an ESPY award as well as the first musher in history to win the Iditarod and Yukon Quest sled dog races back to back in the same year.

The ESPY Awards are the one night each year where athletes from all sports join together to celebrate the best moments of the year. The ESPY Awards take place on Wednesday, July 11th at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA. Lance and his wife Tonya will be present for the award ceremony.

Lance will also be participating in the ESPY Celebrity Golf Classic Tuesday morning, July 10th athletes and celebrities tee off at the Industry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms Resort for a day of fun competition for the V Foundation for Cancer Research.

All proceeds from the ESPY Awards and related events benefit the V Foundation for Cancer Research in memory of the late Jim Valvano.

For more information about Lance, including his latest news and where to enter votes for Lance Mackey, please visit http://www.comebackkennel.com for details.

ESPYS votes may be cast online at http://espn.go.com/espy2007 beginning today, Monday June 25, 2007 until July 7, 2007.

Related topic:
Rachael Scdoris was the first musher nominated for an ESPY in 2006 for the category of Best Female Athlete with a Disability.
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Scott Slone said:

Lance received my vote! Have you voted? What a year for Lance - more than anything can't wait to see his team running the trail again next year! Cheers! Scott

June 25, 2007 | url

Becki Lee Timson said:

Actually, Rachael Scdoris is the first musher I know of to be nominated for an ESPY, this time last year (2006). Check out... http://www.dsusa.org/ChallMagarchive/Summer06/challmag-sum06-NamesInTheNews.html

June 25, 2007 | url

Kevin Kastner said:

Hi Becki, thanks for the correction about the first musher nominee. Let's make the Lance the first musher to WIN the ESPY!

June 25, 2007 | url

Debbie Blodgett said:

Hi Folks: I was reading the news article and I think the confusion is the wording. Lance is the first "Alaskan" musher to be nominated. Rachel is from Oregon, hence she is an "Oregon" musher. All in all it is a great honour to be nominated for an ESPY award. I'll be voting for Lance.

July 03, 2007

Tommy Thomas said:

Debbie you are so right about the wording. Lance had a year a musher has never ever, ever had!!!! To win the QUEST and the IDITAROD with 13 of the same dogs he ran in both races. Not any 5 time winners nor 4 time winners can say that, everyone said it couldn't be done well, all I can say is EAT MY WORDS! What an incredible ride it must have been for him? Quite frankly I can't think of a more deserving person than LANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH YA I VOTED FOR HIM ALSO EVERYONE NEEDS TO LOG ON AND VOTE FOR HIM IT IS ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE THINGS DONE IN SPORTS EVER!!!

July 03, 2007

Larry Taylor said:

DogSled.com is really cookin'.

July 07, 2007 | url