Michigan musher Laura Neese is known for her upbeat attitude, whether it's on the race trail or mingling with locals at the checkpoints. She's known for whistling happy tunes as she hooks up her dogs ...

Michigan musher Laura Neese and her Nature’s Kennel team of Upper Peninsula sled dogs are again ready to set out on an Iditarod adventure. But this time, the 23-year-old from McMillan is no race ...

One has a bubbly personality, the other laid-back. Both, however, are undaunted, even ecstatic about tackling what’s been dubbed “The Last Great Race on Earth” for the first time. The Iditarod, which ...

For more than a decade — since she was 9 years old — Laura Neese has been imagining the ride of her life. Come Monday, she’ll set out to take it. The 20-year-old Neese, a native of Newark, Ohio, will ...

Laura Neese, of Madison Township, is living in Michigan and training for the Iditarod. Neese got interested in dog racing when she was 9 during a school project. Her parents, who still live in Licking ...

Rookie Laura Neese (#7) of McMillan, Mich., mushes along the trail at Goose Lake during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ceremonial start in Anchorage on Saturday, March 4, 2017. (Anne Raup / Alaska ...

With support from her parents, Madison Township native Laura Neese completed the Yukon Quest. Neese has dreamed of being a musher since she was 9 years old. Her parents traveled to Alaska and Canada ...