People of the Mandan Rodeo

2009

Stock Contractor: Mosbrucker Rodeo

Mosbrucker Rodeo of Mandan had seven horses selected for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in 2007. Taos Muncy won the 7th round in the saddle bronc riding on #34 Silver Moon with a score of 87.5 enroute to his first world championship. Five-time world champion Billy Etbauer won the 8th round in the saddle bronc riding aboard #000 War Chick with a score of 88.5. Three-time world bareback riding champion Will Lowe won the 10th round with an NFR record-tying score of 91.5 on #305 Magic Wars. Magic Wars was also voted the top bareback horse of the 2007 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.

Mark Gomes, 1998 World Bareback Champion, wins the first round at Cheyenne last year on Mosbrucker's Moon Blast with an 88 pt. ride.

Announcer

Tim Fuller of Claremore, Oklahoma, will be the voice of the Mandan Rodeo in 2008. He brings 18 years of professional rodeo announcing experience. Fuller’s announcing successes include the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo in Pocatello, Idaho; the National High School Finals Rodeo, and the Miss Rodeo America Pageant.

Fuller’s path to becoming a rodeo announcer was rocky. He previously worked construction all over the United States. In 1990, he was in Wichita, Kansas, rebuilding a hospital that had been destroyed by a tornado. He was three stories up when he was knocked to the ground, landing on his right leg!

Five surgeries and three years of physical therapy later, Fuller was walking … and talking. A former rodeo competitor in the bareback riding, team roping and steer wrestling, Fuller says, “I was never very good, but I could always talk, so 18 years later...hear I am!”

Fuller still works some construction jobs, plus does voice work and television commercials. He also serves as master of ceremonies for farm and agricultural shows around the country. His hobbies include hunting, fishing, and attending junior bullriding events with his wife and son, a two-time national champion at age 14.

Fuller says, “I love the sport of rodeo and am thankful for the opportunity to be involved with a part of our western heritage!”

Pickup Men

Jim Wilson and Tyler Robertson

Bullfighters

Josh Rivinius, Elgin, N.D.

& Chris Aman, S.D.

Secretary

Ruth Nicolaus

Timers

TBA

2009 Mandan Rodeo

Executive Committee

Chairman - Neil Ness

Vice Chair - Lee Thomas

Past Chairman - Joe LaDuke

Treasurer – Jim Neubauer

Secretary – Tammy Backhaus

Don Hulm

Deb Knuth

Keely Spilde

Del Wetsch

Ellen Huber

Additional Committee Members

& Volunteers

Jesse Asheim 

Lynn Asheim

Troy Backhaus

Bryen Birkholz

Karl & Traci Carson

Adam Deichert

Jason Ehlert

Toby Huber

Trish Hulm

Daron & Pierette Johnson

Sandra LaDuke

Trish Lenihan

Jason Mittlestadt

Mary Morrell

Anita Ness

Gary Ness

Cara Ness

Jared Spilde

Bruce & Loren Strinden

Reis Wolf

Amanda Schaff

Darrel Howard

Joey & Tonee Vander Vliet