Jessica Hendricks is  a 20 years old (in the year 2003), she was one of the youngest people that were in the Iditarod of 2003. She lives in Copper Center, Alaska. Jessica has been mushing since she was 10 and has wanted to run in the Iditarod since then. She has been in the Jr. Iditarod and the Jr. Quest and has also been in many mid distance races and has finished all of them. She says that most of her dogs are from Erhart, Buser and MacEAchen families. Jessica and her partner have trained and raised all of her dogs since they were pups. Jessica loves to go hunting and fishing. The picture on the far left (thanks to iditarod.com) is of Jessica and Jerry Austin, Jerry was giving the "Rookie of the Year" award to her. The picture in the middle (also thanks to iditarod.com) is of Jessica finishing in 19th place coming into Nome. The far right picture it of school kids petting Jessicas wheel dogs.