2008 World standings place: 24th
2008 earnings: $56,292
Tour Finale titles: 1
Championship: 2006
Tour finale qualifications: 9
Winter: 2004, 2006
Summer: 2000-01, 2003-04
Championship: 2003-04, 2006
DNCFR titles: 2 (1999-BR, AA)
DNCFR qualifications: 3 (1998, 2000, 2003)
Education: Fort Scott (Kan.) Community College
Professional
2009 Highlights
• Won the Buffalo (Minn.) Championship PRCA Rodeo
• Won the St. Croix Valley PRCA Rodeo (Glenwood City, Wis.)
• Won the Freeborn County Stampede Rodeo (Albert Lea, Minn.)
• Won the Juneau County Fair Pro Rodeo (Mauston, Wis.)
Career Highlights
• 2008: Won the West of the Pecos Rodeo (Pecos, Texas); the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo; and the Franklin County Fair PRCA Rodeo (Hampton, Iowa)
• 2007: Co-champion at the West of the Pecos Rodeo (Pecos, Texas) and won the Minnesota State Fair PRCA Rodeo (St. Paul, Minn.)
• 2006: Won his first Tour Finale title in Dallas, and qualified for his sixth Wrangler NFR. He didn’t qualify for Dallas, but Matt Austin and Wesley Silcox both were injured, so Boettcher earned a spot in the Tour Championship. Won the Great Plains Stampede Rodeo (Altus, Okla.) and the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo; finished eighth in the final world standings with earnings of $125,794
• 2004: Was a semifinalist at Summer Tour Finale (Omaha, Neb); moved from 15th to eighth in the world standings during the Wrangler NFR, placing in five of 10 rounds; finished the year with $129,958
• 2003: Won average title at the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up; won $4,986 at the Tour Championships to move from eighth in the world standings to fifth; won Round 8 with an 87-point ride on Stace Smith Pro Rodeo’s Dippin’ Rampage at the Wrangler NFR; finished the year ranked 14th in the world with $104,470
• 2001: Won the New Mexico State Fair Rodeo in Albuquerque and the Greeley (Colo.) Independence Stampede
• 2000: Finalist in the Copenhagen Cup Finale (Mesquite, Texas); won bull riding titles at the Tri-State Rodeo (Fort Madison, Iowa), and the Great Lakes Circuit Finals Rodeo
• 1999: Won bull riding and all-around titles at the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo (Pocatello, Idaho)
• 1998: Won the Old Fort Days Rodeo (Fort Smith, Ark.) and the Great Lakes Circuit Finals Rodeo
Amateur
National High School Finals Rodeo bull riding champion, 1994
Personal
6-0, 170…Single…Name pronounced Bet-cher....Hobbies include horses, watching movies, hunting and fishing...Tore a biceps muscle at the 2003 Summer Tour Finale in Omaha, Neb., and over the course of his career has separated both shoulders, undergone knee surgery, elbow surgery and had titanium plates placed in his forehead