NBHA Michigan you are the awesomest (I know that is not a word) State in the union! What a terrific NBHA State Championships! Our 2011 NBHA State Championships went off without a hitch and the new “chute” was a big hit, it was also soooo much safer! Another one of your State directors dreams come true, a Bar-B-Q for NBHA contestants! Wow! A special thank you to Brad & Cami Cumper ie. Saginaw Valley Equine Clinic, for treating us to such a great time! (I hear that another is in the works for next year!) What about those finals? It was so exciting right up until the last rider anyone could have been the winner! BUT Terri Forrest on the great “Indy Charger” set the pace & won it again! Congratulations to all our Champions & Winners! I don’t know if all of you heard the announcement at State but instead of $12,000 added we added $15,000. Thanks to everyone for your help getting sponsors, and the help we got at the Can-Am which really helped us with state $’s, weather it was assigning campsites, delivering sawdust or setting barrels most of the $’s we earned went to State championships! Thank you for all the help. The 3rd Annual Cam –Am is in the works!! What a great opportunity and honor for the State of Michigan and what a privilege to have the National office come to our “playpen”! Thanks for all your support and mark your calendars for June 22-24, 2012!
Our NBHA Michigan State Championships would NOT be possible without your director’s putting together such a great show. AND it would not be possible without members and even non-members helping out with everything from doing the draw, (thanks Sandy for bringing the ice cream), to dragging the warm up pen at 1 am in the morning, delivering office help food, donating maverick gifts, putting stickers on barrels & finalist gifts, helping out all day Wednesday putting the fairgrounds in NBHA Michigan State Championship mode, Sunday am cleanup, gate people(this was a new job created this year because of the alleyway), barrel setters, office workers, timers, sweatshirt folders and organizers, silent auction organizers and $’s collectors (by the way everyone that donated to the silent auction), sawdust deliveries, (Tim & Jason & Thomas you all had too much fun!), and most of all for all your entries! Our entries were up again this year, which in the Michigan economy is a great tribute to NBHA Michigan members! Hope you all had a great time!
NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT OUR TRACTOR DRIVERS! The ground was PERFECT again as always you guys have the magic formula! By the way congratulations again to our Volunteers of the Year Chris Carpenter & John Osborne, without you the ground for NBHA Michigan would not be as great as it is for many of our shows in the state not just in MI04.
Our “Best Dressed Pink” award went to Sheri Frick, Congratulations Sheri!
Our “Free entry” for staying in the Fairview Inn our host hotel is Gene Eby, congratulations Gene!
Just a note I will be in Florida for the winter. I am as close as a phone call or a text message (my phone is 616-450-9189) and my address for the winter months is: 58671 Overseas Hwy, Marathon, Fl., 33050. I will again be coming back for our annual directors meeting March 3, so PLEASE let your director or me know if you have any suggestions for making NBHA Michigan even better and new places for new shows(at this meeting we get our show schedule done for the year so any suggestions would be great)!

We would like to put this on the agenda so we can keep the meeting going smoothly. The show schedule will not be finalized until after this meeting. BUT you CAN put the All District Show on your calendar, April 27 & 28, the Midland Blast for May 18 & 19, NBHA & MBRA Sweepstakes June 8 or 9 or 10, Can-Am June 22-24, Red, White, & Blue June 29-July 1, and the NBHA Michigan State Championships August 30-Sept 1.

What about “TEAM MICHIGAN” at the NBHA world Open & Senior World Championships? If you weren’t there you missed a terrific time! AND we now have another World Champion in our ranks, Brad Marshall! Congratulations to Brad! We also had lots of finalists and $’s makers!

The “21” Race we had 1-D Brian Langworthy-9th/10th Split-$567, 4-D Lil Rasmussen-7th-$363, and 5-D Pattie Marshall-8th-$231! Yah and congratulations!

The Senior World championships: 1st go-3-d Ginger Kovalcik-2nd-$326, 5-D Sherri Frick-1st-$230. 2nd go-3-D Brad Marshall-4th-$260, 4-D Sheri Frick-7th-$118, 5-D Ron Sullivan-1st-$266

Senior Finals! 3-D World Champion! Brad Marshall $955, 3-D /ginger Kovalcki-6th-$347, and 5-D Sheri Frick-4th-$290!!

Open 1st Go: 1-D Terri forrest-14th-$268, 3-D Jerri Hoholik-1st-$1680, 4-D Diane Loosenort-3rd-$770 2nd go: 3-D Tracy Wren-3rd-$960

Finals: 2-D Brian Langworthy-5th-$1610, 3-D Terri Forrest-5th-$1344

Congratulations one and all! What a riot “Team Michigan” had! We had all the other states REALLY jealous of our “Team Michigan” shirts. I have a feeling that other states will “copy” us BUT none of them can have any more fun!!!!!!!!

NEWS FLASH!!!! Youth World 2012 will be in Perry, Georgia!!!!!! AND Open & Senior World will have $50,000 added! NBHA is awesome and it is awesome to its members!!!!!!

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Diane Loosenort, NBHA Michigan State Director

2011 State Finals Sponsors

The following NBHA members have been suspended
Heidi Anderson, Giget Sersaw, Tabitha Rawson, Nikita Booth, Lorna Revord, Tammy Chamberlain.
If you have any questions please contact your District Director or the State Director.

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