Pam Zaitz is the founder, president and lead designer of SHE Safari women’s hunting and outdoor apparel.  Introduced to the outdoors by her husband Brian almost 18 years ago, Pam now shares her passion for hunting and conservation with her entire family, including sons Parker and McLane.  After 15 years of wearing men’s and youth clothing on her hunting trips and with an impending trip to Tanzania and Zimbabwe, she decided it was time for women to have apparel that actually fit and performed like it should, all the while keeping feminine style and tailoring. Now a successful business woman, devoted wife and mother of two, she is able to combine her love for her faith, family and the outdoors full time.  

Pam has hunted small to large game from Texas to Tanzania and continues to explore opportunities throughout the world to grow her outdoor experiences.  Over the years Pam hunt ed primarily with a rifle but in 2006 took up the challenge of bow hunting, harvesting her first animal.  Fueled by the excitement of that experience, she now has hunts planned throughout the world with both rifle and archery equipment. 

Pam never stops designing the next in women’s outdoor apparel.  By being active in the outdoor industry and blessed with the ability to hunt different regions, she keeps her design wheels in tune.  She believes there is always another design that women deserve and want just around the corner.  Pam says, “My goal is to get more women involved in the outdoors with their families and what a better way than to make sure women everywhere are comfortable and feel confident in the field. I just hope I can play a small part in families enjoying all that God has created.” back to names...

Kim Rhode-

SHE Safari, maker of women’s outdoor apparel, is proud to announce three-time Olympic Medalist, Kim Rhode as their newest national spokesperson. In addition, SHE Safari will create a new line of Kim Rhode shooting apparel.

 “We are pleased and honored to have Kim on our team,” stated SHE Safari owners Pam and Brian Zaitz. “Kim will be an excellent representative and a wealth of knowledge for our company and the new line of clothing designed specifically for women shooters. We have a lot of confidence Kim’s input and guidance, along with our designs, will ultimately be the finest in women’s technical shooting apparel.” back to names...

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Corey Cogdell

Olympic Trap shooter Corey Cogdell began shooting around age 3 in her home state of Alaska, like many of us she recalls plinking at whatever safe target presented itself at a very young age. She also began hunting with her father around that time. With the help of a local 4-H shooting program, she discovered a love of shotgun shooting and honed her trap shooting skills. From there, she went on to train for Olympic style trapshooting and after just two short years of training became the only member of the USA’s 2008 Olympic women's trapshooting team. In Beijing Corey got down to business, securing Team USA’s first Olympic Medal.

While not competing for the USA Shooting Team Corey enjoys being an avid hunter and outdoors women. Growing up in Alaska Corey hunted big game but has developed a love for bird hunting and has become an avid bow hunter as well. Corey enjoys working with various youth and women’s hunting and shooting organizations to introduce new people to the outdoor sports. Corey is also a member of Cabelas Pro Staff and has appeared on numerous outdoor television shows. back to names...

Beth Ann is also a national award-winning gun dog writer.  She’s been a Maxwell Medallion winner in the Dog Writer’s Association National Writing Competition, as well as a John Madson Fellowship recipient from the Outdoor Writers Association.  She is the gun dog editor for the Labrador Retriever Club, Inc. and her work has been published in numerous publications including Retrievers Online, The Labrador Quarterly, Woman’s Outlook, Women In the Outdoors, Outdoor Oklahoma, Wheelin’ Sportsman, HunTeen, Safari Trails, and Outdoors Unlimited.  Her heart-warming tale of a young retriever’s first duck hunt was published this year in the anthology A Mile in Her Boots – Women Who Work in the Wild.  She is on the pro-staff of WomenHunters.com, is a member of the Professional Outdoor Media Association and the Dog Writer’s Association of America and for the past two years has been the only woman gun dog writer invited to attend Purina’s Dog Writers Event. (More...) back to names...

Gina Brunson- www.jboutdoors.com
Gina Brunson, co-host of Jon Brunson Outdoors on MOR, grew up on the water, where she and her father spent weekends fishing together. When she wasn’t fishing with her dad, Gina was pitching for her coed softball league, running track or going to gymnastics meets. She grew up in a large family; her parents fostered 250 kids by the time she turned 18. She was a tough independent kid, who always knew how to take care of herself.

Gina continued her love of fishing and camping when she met her husband Jon Brunson, 16 years ago. Gina began hunting 12 years ago. She fell in love with bow hunting and has been an avid bow hunter ever since. Gina has hunted everything from turkeys to gators, taking several record book animals, including black buck, axis deer, whitetail, gator and buffalo. Gina’s passion is chasing big whitetails. In fact, she’s taken several whitetails that have scored over 150. On the show, Gina’s competitive side comes out, as she is always trying to bag the bigger buck. Gina and Jon have a new show coming out in July 2008, that will have a different format than the traditional outdoors show.

Off screen, Gina spends time with their six children. She and Jon have taken a deep interest in instilling their outdoor values into their children. All their kids shoot a bow, even their youngest, three-year-old, Gunner. They regularly take the kids on family camping trips, including a road trip to South Dakota to hunt as a family. Gina and Jon participate regularly with Wheelin’ Sportsmen, a group dedicated to taking handicapped children on hunts. She strongly believes in getting young people involved in the sport. Gina says, “We’re just trying to get people in the outdoors to enjoy it with their families.” back to names...

Kathy Butt-
Born and raised in middle Tennessee to parents who had a great passion for the outdoors, and then, at age 19, having married a professional taxidermist and big game guide and outfitter, it’s no wonder Kathy eventually became actively involved in the outdoor industry. She and her husband, Foster, are registered New Mexico guides and outfitters and have, since the mid 80’s, run a private land elk & mule deer hunting camp each fall. Kathy first became actively involved as a freelance outdoor writer and photographer in 1987, when there were very few female outdoor writers, and takes great pride in watching the number of lady outdoor writers/photographers grow. During her writing career, Kathy has had articles and photography published in a wide variety of major outdoor publications such as Outdoor Life, Bowhunter, Bow & Arrow Hunting, Petersen’s Bowhunting, Turkey Call, Women in the Outdoors, NRA publications such as American Hunter & Woman’s Outlook, North American Hunter, Blackpowder Hunting, Mossy Oak’s Hunting the Country, Whitetail Strategies, Cabela’s Outfitter Journal, etc.... 

She has a great passion for hunting big game each fall with bow, muzzleloader and rifle and has been successful in taking a wide variety of big game with bow and gun. Each fall she personally hunts elk with bow, while also guiding archery and rifle elk and/or mule deer hunters during the New Mexico seasons. Each spring you’ll find her in the turkey woods watching turkeys through her viewfinder or looking down the sights of her shotgun, often times hunting them with her bow. She has a great passion for introducing youngsters and ladies to archery and archery hunting and has assisted in teaching the archery & hunting classes offered at the Becoming an Outdoors Woman Workshops in Tennessee. Kathy is so excited about the She Safari clothing line, because each and every garment is made to meet the specific physical needs of the female hunter. They're designed to be functional and stylish at the same time and this is exactly what today’s lady hunters have been waiting for! Hooray!!!
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Stephanie Carlton-
Stephanie Carlton was born in 1981 and raised on a small 600-acre ranch in the mountains outside of Gunnison, Colorado.  Stephanie grew up as a daughter of an outfitter/rancher that specialized in elk, mule deer, and moose hunting in the heart of the Cebolla Wilderness.  Growing up 60 miles into Colorado's interior elk country she developed a rich passion for being outdoors and nature.

After marrying Marc Carlton in 2003 she continued to develop her interest in the outdoors by picking up a gun and bow and taking a sincere interest in hunting along side her husband.  She now is part owner in the camouflage company Carlton's CamoWest, LLC along with her husband Marc.  They live in Montrose, Colorado where they can best enjoy the outdoors and their passion for elk and turkey hunting in western Colorado.

"Thanks to SHE Safari's high quality and detailed design for clothing, women can feel feminine and functional in the field.  No more bulky men's camouflage clothing or apparel with inferior fabric types and design!  They offer the best fitted women's clothing to keep you comfortable whether you're on a safari in Africa or a turkey hunt in the mountains of Colorado.  That's why we are so excited to have our CamoWest Arid and Hybrid patterns available in SheSafari clothing!" back to names...

Vicki Cianciarulo - www.archerschoice.com

Lynne Frady- www.teamfrady.com

Lynne Frady owns and operates Team Frady Outdoor Adventures with her husband Jim and daughter Leah.  She began hunting when she was 18 and grew up on trout streams in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina.  She has worked in the outdoor, archery, hunting and fishing industry for the past 14 years and represents over 30 of the top companies in the industry as a Pro Staff member.  Lynne and her family were featured in Real Tree Outdoors’ print and commercial ad campaign “Real People Real Hunters.  Lynne and Jim were honored with the Muzzy Tall Man award in 2006, one of the archery industries most prestigious awards, for their archery and outdoor educational programs.

     She devotes countless hours to Team Frady’s Archery and Outdoor Classroom Programs where Team Frady along with their Pro Staff teach young people, women and families how to properly shoot a bow, how to stay safe in the outdoors and the importance of hunting and wildlife conservation.  Lynne teaches archery programs for the National Wild Turkey Federations Women in the Outdoors and the North Carolina Wildlife Commissions Becoming and Outdoors Woman programs. Team Frady teaches their educational and archery programs at schools, camps, 4-H clubs and camps for the terminally ill.  Lynne has also been the archery skill head at Camp Rockmont for the past 5 years, one of the south’s premier summer Christian camps for boys.   She also works with Bass Pro Shops and Cabala’s presenting seminars on how to get more women and children involved in the outdoors, hunting and fishing.

        Lynne is a certified Archery instructor a North Carolina Hunter Education Instructor and also an Outdoor Writer and Photographer.  She writes for National Bowhunter Magazine, WomenHunters.com and has been featured in Petersen’s Crossbow Hunting Magazine, Bowhunt America, Real Tree’s Online Magazine and many others.   Team Frady is the east coast office for Bowhunting North America, a company that promotes and produces their own TV show along with hunting videos.  Lynne owns and operates Super Dog Obedience and Gun Dog Training.  She has trained dogs for 24 years and competes in retriever hunt test, obedience shows and pursues waterfowl and upland birds.  Through her school her main focus is to help others achieve their personal goals. “ Being a hunter is a huge responsibility, it is up to us to educate the next generation so they too will love and appreciate what God has created and preserve our outdoor, hunting and fishing heritage for future generations.   back to names...
  

Haley Heath- www.haleyheath.com

Haley Heath is the host of Family Traditions with Haley Heath on The Sportsman Channel.  Haley and her husband G.O. have known each since first grade and have always shared the love of the outdoors together.  At the early age of six years old Haley harvested her first deer (a basket- rack seven point that still is displayed proudly on her wall) with her father and has been an avid hunter ever since! 

Haley's biggest passion is big game, with whitetail and Elk tying for her top favorites!  Haley competed as the only woman contestant on ESPN's Ultimate Outdoorsman Search in 2006 and competed for nine months until at the final competition Haley was nine months pregnant and was unable to compete, coming in second place!  At that point she decided there needed to be a show about a young woman and her family's tradition of raising children in the outdoors.  Her passion of bringing more families together and getting more women in the outdoors  is evident in her shows and speeches.

Haley and G.O. have two children, Gunner and Dakota.  G.O. owns and operates a restaurant while Haley works full time at Bass Pro Shops.  Their families have been connected through generations sharing the passion of the outdoors and hope that through their journey they too can help other families get more involved and keep the tradition alive! back to names...

Tes Jolly- www.jollysoutdoorvisions.com

A third generation racing greyhound breeder and trainer, most of Tes Randle Jolly’s life has been spent working the family business. Tes acquired a passion for hunting and the outdoors naturally through her Native American heritage. She credits her parents, also avid hunters, with instilling in her a deep respect and appreciation for wildlife and nature. At nine years old, Tes’s enthusiastic desire to hunt with her father turned to teary-eyed disappointment upon hearing of a men’s only hunt club rule. Luckily her parents felt Tes deserved the same hunting education and opportunities as their sons. Until the rule was dropped three years later she was known to club members as  “Harvey”, disguised as a boy dressed in baggy old Army fatigues and sporting a floppy brimmed hat. For obvious reasons and with more than four decades of hunting experience, Tes takes an active role in mentoring and passing on the hunting tradition to women. For the past 12 years, Tes has served as an archery and wild turkey hunting instructor for the Alabama Becoming an Outdoors Woman program.

In 1994 Jolly entered the outdoor and hunting industry as one of the country’s few female turkey hunting guides at Alabama’s famed White Oak Plantation. Over the next several spring seasons she guided and/or met many notable outdoor manufacturers, writers, photographers, and editors including, Jim Carmichael, Jim and Sherry Crumley, Bob Robb, Brian Lovett, Dan Schmidt, Jay Langston, Bill Miller, Brad Herndon, Jerry Peterson, John Phillips, and others.

Jolly’s career in the hunting industry transitioned to full time in 1996 when she married noted outdoor videographer and Outdoor Alabama executive producer, Ron Jolly.  Over the next five years Jolly and her husband hunted, recorded, and co-produced 10 feature whitetail and turkey hunting videos for companies including Ol’ Man Treestands and Woods Wise Products. Since 2001 Tes works as a freelance writer, wildlife and outdoor photographer, offering photography services through her company, Jolly’s Outdoor Visions.

Tes is an active member of the Professional Outdoor Media Association and Southeastern Outdoor Press Association. Jolly’s work has earned wildlife and nature photography awards.  Much of her work focuses on hunting-related and wildlife photography but includes nature, and wildlife habitat and forestry management. Publishing credits include online on the Web at Realtree.com, guideoutdoors.com, and Realhuntersjournal.com. National publication credits include Turkey & Turkey Hunting, Deer & Deer Hunting, Quality Whitetails, Harris Publications, Grandview Media, Turkey Call, Get In The Game, Farming For Wildlife, Wheelin’ Sportsmen, Women In The Outdoors, and Outdoor Alabama.  Her work appears in North American Hunting Club and Krause publication’s hunting books in addition to wildlife calendars. back to names...

Professional hunter, hunting operation manager, businesswoman, outfitter, and rancher.  Ashley grew up on her family’s land; an 11,000 acre hunting preserve located in the Texas Hill Country known as The West Kerr Ranch.  She currently serves as co-owner of A&K outfitters and manager.

Ashley has been hunting for over 20 years.  Recently, she has picked up bow hunting and has harvested numerous whitetail, exotics, hogs and turkey in the last two years.   She has shared her love for the outdoors with many women in hope for them to get more involved in hunting. 

Ashley’s mother’s passion for land improvement has inspired her to carry a well rounded habitat management program. In 1999 her mother proudly won The Lone Star Land Steward Award. Because of her mother’s emotional bond with the land, Ashley has assumed many of the management responsibilities; conducting prescribed burns, making lodging improvements, filling protein feeders, guiding, checking fences, and meeting with biologists to improve her whitetail herd.  During the off season she spends countless hours, driving the ranch road, watching wildlife just outside her door.

Ashley graduated from Texas Tech University. She has been involved in numerous charitable organizations, including, Armed Forces Foundation for wounded soldiers, Operation Orphans, and TWA youth hunts. She donates hunts to several causes that further cancer research; American Cancer Society and Texas Oncology Relay for Life.  She has a strong desire for helping others given that she has experienced cancer first hand in her own family. She also has a special interest in charities that benefit St. Jude‘s Children’s Research.  

Ashley is good about setting goals, developing procedures, evaluating the program as it progresses and making modifications as needed.  She will continue to carry out her family’s tradition and pass on the love of the land.  back to names...

Tiffany Lakosky- www.gettinclose.com

Tiffany Lakosky co-hosts Scent-Lok's Gettin' Close on the Outdoor Channel with husband Lee.  Not only does Tiffany regularly tag some of the best looking whitetails each year, but she certainly impresses viewers with her fun attitude toward life and hunting. Tiffany is a skilled hunter as husband Lee attests, “A lot of people ask me 'Can Tiffany really get the job done?’ And the answer is a resounding yes! I’ve seen her consistently make high pressure shots on massive trophy whitetails, time after time.”

Both Lee and Tiffany spend countless hours sharpening their archery skills and actively manage their land for trophy whitetails in eastern Iowa. “We absolutely love our time in the woods, its something that we do day after day. If we are not practicing with our bows, we are managing food plots, scouting for good stand set-ups and just spending time outdoors together,” says Tiffany. back to names...

Audrey McQueen- www.trophyridgeoutfitters.net

Audrey McQueen, a member of the Hunter’s Specialties National Pro Staff, recently won her 9th Women’s World Elk Calling Championship at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s 25th annual convention.

Audrey currently lives in Eagar, Arizona and operates Trophy Ridge Outfitters (www.trophyridgeoutfitters.net) with her husband Roger; offering hunts for elk, mule deer, antelope and oryx.

“I grew up on a ranch near the small town of Luna, New Mexico,” said McQueen. “My favorite hobbies were always fishing and hunting. I have always been very competitive and enjoy calling contests. A couple of years ago I started competing on the Women’s Bassmaster Tour as a professional angler. Last year I placed second in the Women’s Bassmaster Tournament championship.”

In addition to her record 9 World Elk Calling titles, Audrey has also won back-to-back Best of the West elk calling titles and twenty-three first place state championships. She continues to consistently be one of the top callers in the country. back to names...

Julie Mogenis- www.huntingwiththejudge.com

As a young girl in Virginia, Julie taught herself to hunt squirrels with a .22. She had no idea that her first squirrel hunt would eventually lead to her becoming a guide, a Texas rancher, and a respected internationally broadcast TV personality. Born on an Army base in Bad Canstatt, Germany, Julie was world traveler by the age of 2. Once stateside, she moved many times, not as an Army brat but as the daughter of an FBI Special Agent. By the time the family had settled back in Virginia she had become very involved in outdoor sports: softball, track and field, mountain climbing (she joined the 4000 Club at the age of 15), and tennis. Although Julie was exceptional in everything she participated in, it was by playing tennis that she truly made her mark. Read More...
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Ginger Morehead

Ginger was raised on a working ranch in Menard, Texas.  She worked the livestock on horseback with her family.  Her family also hunted together.  The children all killed their first deer by the age of 6 and tagged out for many years after that.  When she was 9, her dad got her a Bear Polar II recurve bow so they could bow hunt together.  Later that season, Ginger killed her first buck with a bow.  She went to college on a basketball scholarship  at East Texas State University in Commerce, Texas.  Her studies and basketball kept her too busy to get back home to hunt.  After she got her degree in Education, she went into the teaching/coaching profession for a few years.  She taught 9th and 10th grade English and coached girls basketball.  This was a fun time for her, but it kept her from hunting and she decided to move back closer to home.

After she got back to Menard, she was guiding on a hunting ranch when Jesse Morehead and Susan Thompson came there to hunt.  They were both world champion archers and Ginger was very interested in learning about it.  Later that same year, she went to Georgia and stayed with Susan to learn the sport.  She entered her first national tournament and finished in 5th place.  A year later, she was the first woman to win Shooter of the Year, Rookie of the Year and World Champion for the North American Bow Hunters.

Jesse & Ginger have been shooting bows most of their lives.  Jesse turned professional in 1983 and has won 12 world titles. He was listed in the 1992 Guinness Book of Records for shooting a broadhead-tipped arrow 742+ yards. Ginger started shooting competition in 1998 and turned pro in '99. Since that time, she has won 8 world titles, 10 national titles and was shooter of the year 8 times...all with Jesse as her coach.  Jesse has been on the Mathews pro-staff for 13 years and Ginger for 10.

In 2001, they moved into a 35' Realtree-camouflaged RV bus to go across the country promoting archery and Muzzy Products. In 6 years, they traveled over 200,000 miles promoting the sport they love. In 2007, they bought a house and moved to Stafford, Kansas where they now reside. Their 7 yr old son Jacob is in 2nd grade there. Beginning in June, they will be back on the road for a couple of months, finishing out the tournament season. This past year they hosted a TV show, "Stayin' Safe with Jesse & Ginger" sponsored by Hunter Safety System and many other fine manufacturers.  They will host “Stayin’ Safe” again in 2008, which is scheduled to air on the Pursuit channel beginning late summer. 

Ginger has harvested numerous trophy whitetails over the years. Some of these can be seen on videos Realtree Monster Bucks XIV, the Muzzy Bad to the Bone Bucks series, Muzzy's Extreme Bowhunting, and various TV shows.
 
Sponsors include Bohning, Block Target, Carbon Express, Double Lung ‘Em, Hunter Safety System, Hunter’s Specialties, Kwikee Kwiver, Limbsaver, Mathews, Muzzy, Nikon, Realtree, and TRU Ball.  back to names...

Brenda Potts- www.huntthemidwest.com

Brenda owns Midwest Legacy Marketing, serving as a media liaison and marketing consultant for companies in the hunting industry, including SHE Safari. Brenda is also the executive producer of SHE'S OUTDOORS TV.

She has been an outdoor writer for over 15 years with articles published in a variety of magazines, primarily on whitetail and elk hunting. She is also a book author whose credits include, "Illinois Whitetails," "Younger's Wild Adventures," a series of outdoor adventure fiction for young readers and chapters in "Legendary Whitetails II." Brenda is a member of the Professional Outdoor Media Association, Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers and the Western Outdoor Writers Association.

Brenda has a BS degree in Environmental Biology and 31 hours toward a MS in Biology. For 7 years she served as Constituency Liaison for the IL DNR. Prior to that Governor Jim Edgar appointed her to a 6 year term on the Natural Resources Advisory Board.  She has been Executive Director of the IL Federation for Outdoor Resources, one of the largest non-profit conservation organizations in IL and president of Illinois chapters of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Whitetails Unlimited. She is also a National Bowhunter Education Foundation certified archery instructor.

Brenda has hunted whitetails, mule deer, elk, turkey and small game for many years. She shares her love of hunting and the outdoors with husband Stan, host of North American Whitetail TV on the Outdoor Channel. back to names...

Lisa Price-

Pennsylvania native Lisa Price writes for Bow & Arrow Hunting Magazine. In addition to archery, she enjoys upland bird hunting, backpacking (she has hiked the Appalachian Trail) and fishing. Lisa is a full-time freelance writer who loves going to other states to archery or bird hunt, and also takes part in field trials with her beloved and spoiled German Shorthaired Pointer. Within the last year she has been published in Pointing Dog Journal, Buckmasters, Field Trial Magazine, Women in the Outdoors, Rack, Fur-Fish-Game and others. She is editor of the Pennsylvania Game Bird Bulletin. back to names...

Eva Shockey- www.jimshockey.com

Having Jim Shockey as a father is enough to inspire anyone to love the outdoors, but it wasn't until recently that Eva caught the hunting bug and is now well on her way into the world of hunting. After playing the role of spectator while traveling with Jim on international hunts, Eva decided it was her turn to hold the gun. As a result, Eva successfully took her first three African animals this past summer in South Africa. Using a muzzleloader at 76, 130 and 160 yards respectively, Eva made three perfect shots - what a way to kick start a future of hunting. Working with Jim on his television show, 'Jim Shockey's Hunting Adventures', Eva is creating a name for herself in the industry and working hard to learn from the pros. With a business degree from university in Australia, Eva is involved with various marketing and design roles within Jim's company and plans to join the industry full-time in the coming months. Keep up to date with Eva's hunting progress by visiting Jim's blog at www.jimshockey.com
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Louise Shockey, wife of legendary hunter Jim Shockey, accompanies her globetrotting husband on his exotic hunting adventures around the world. Louise, a former professional actress and model, brings a valuable new dimension to "Jim Shockey's Hunting Adventures" on the Outdoor Channel beginning in January 2008. “I am thrilled to share our travels and experiences with all of you, who have for all of these years, only heard Jim's side of the story!” Louise says. “For a minute or two of your time on Jim's show, thanks to SHE Safari, I now have the chance to share with you the rest of the story! Entertainment, a laugh or two and a touch of heart will be my target. Pass it on!"

Louise’s SHE Safari segment will highlight compelling cultural attractions, travel destinations, native history, travel advice, and more. One of Jim’s primary motivations in seeking out hunting adventures around the world has always been to share the cultural side of the story with his viewers. Now, thanks to SHE Safari and Louise, a portion of each show will be dedicated to this intriguing component of safaris … no matter where in the world they might lead. back to names...