AMA Bessie Stringfield Award

Created in 2000, the AMA Bessie Stringfield Award is targeted to individual women within the motorcycling community who have been instrumental in showing other women they can be active participants in the world of motorcycling. Recipients of the award must be acknowledged by their peers as true leaders in the sport, a woman who has had significant positive impact on the role, and image, of women in motorcycling over a sustained period of time.

Nominations for this award may be submitted by any member of the Association. It is bestowed from time to time at the pleasure of the AMA Board of Directors.

Recipients

2003: Margaret Wilson
2002: Rita Coombs
2000: Patti Carpenter