Brett Welldon

From one side of the rodeo arena to the next, Brett Wellden from Guthrie, Oklahoma, was once “the world’s worst bareback rider,” but is now a top-of-the line rodeo announcer. “I was also the world’s worst rodeo clown at one point. I came up through high school and a little bit of college in the bareback riding and team roping,” said the former Marine and retired patrol officer. While he was a police officer, Brett continued to ride bareback horses until getting hurt on the weekends was no longer a favorite past time. “I tried to walk away from rodeo when I started working in the narcotics unit, but then I got a phone call that would set the stage for the rest of my life.”