The North Dakota Rough Rider Cup runs Sept. 18-20 in Mandan, North Dakota, with $60,000 added to the breakaway roping, one calf apiece and a field that holds all 15 cowgirls currently projected inside the National Finals Breakaway Roping (NFBR) cut.
Thirty-six ropers, 12 a night across three performances. Twelve holes pay this year, up from eight. There is no average to fall back on and no second calf to fix a miss.
What You Need To Know
- The Format
- How They Got In
- What a Check Paid in 2025
- The Projected 2026 Payout
- What It Takes to Make the Top 15
- At the Top of the Standings
- The Sioux Falls Cutoff
- Mandan Daysheets
The Format
- Dale Pahlke Arena, Mandan, North Dakota
- Friday, Sept. 18, 6:30 p.m. · Saturday, Sept. 19, 6:30 p.m. · Sunday, Sept. 20, 2 p.m.
- One go, one calf apiece, no slack
- 36 ropers, 12 a performance
- $60,000 added
- Twelve holes pay in 2026, up from eight in 2024 and 2025
- Cinch Playoff Series rodeo, the last one before the Sept. 21 Governor’s Cup cutoff
How They Got In
Last year the rodeo took the top 32 from the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) world standings as of the entry deadline and added four champions out of qualifying rodeos at Dickinson and Mandan, North Dakota, and Deadwood and Rapid City, South Dakota. The 2026 trade list runs 36 deep and follows the same shape.
What a Check Paid in 2025
Mandan added $45,000 to the breakaway last year and paid $48,553 across eight holes. Cadee Williams won it on a 2.0. Eight of the nine cowgirls who cashed are entered again this week.
| Hole | Roper | Time | Check |
|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 | Cadee Williams | 2.0 | $11,167 |
| No. 2 | Kinlie Brennise | 2.2 | $9,710 |
| No. 3 (tie) | Josie Conner | 2.3 | $6,069 |
| No. 3 (tie) | Maddy Jacobs | 2.3 | $6,069 |
| No. 3 (tie) | Rickie Engesser | 2.3 | $6,069 |
| No. 3 (tie) | Aspen Miller | 2.3 | $6,069 |
| No. 7 | Jenna Dallyn | 2.4 | $2,428 |
| No. 8 (tie) | Martha Angelone | 2.5 | $486 |
| No. 8 (tie) | TiAda Gray | 2.5 | $486 |
The Projected 2026 Payout
Mandan pays 12 holes this year, four deeper than last. Run the 12-hole split and the same 36-roper entry count against this year’s $60,000, and the ladder projects like this.
| Hole | Projected check |
|---|---|
| No. 1 | $12,711 |
| No. 2 | $10,804 |
| No. 3 | $8,897 |
| No. 4 | $7,626 |
| No. 5 | $6,355 |
| No. 6 | $4,449 |
| No. 7 | $3,178 |
| No. 8 | $2,542 |
| No. 9 | $2,224 |
| No. 10 | $1,907 |
| No. 11 | $1,589 |
| No. 12 | $1,271 |
What It Takes to Make the Top 15
Shelby Boisjoli-Meged is sitting No. 15 at $86,824 in our projection through Puyallup. Everyone chasing her is entered in Mandan, and so is she. Measured against that $86,824, this is the lowest hole each of them can place in and still be inside the cut.
| No. | Roper | Projected | Out of No. 15 | Has to place at least |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | Shelby Boisjoli-Meged | $86,824 | — | — |
| 16 | Jill Tanner | $85,237 | $1,587 | No. 11—$1,589 |
| 17 | Sawyer Gilbert | $84,601 | $2,223 | No. 9—$2,224 |
| 18 | Martha Angelone | $83,803 | $3,021 | No. 7—$3,178 |
| 19 | Maddy Jacobs | $82,967 | $3,857 | No. 6—$4,449 |
| 20 | Bradi Good | $76,551 | $10,273 | No. 2—$10,804 |
| 21 | Jackie Crawford | $76,032 | $10,792 | No. 2—$10,804 |
| 22 | Jordan Hollabaugh | $72,095 | $14,729 | More than the win pays |
Twelfth place projects to pay $1,271, which still does not move anybody into the top 15—Tanner is the closest and she is $1,587 short. Four extra holes change who is live: Tanner gets in on an 11th-place check, Gilbert on a ninth, Angelone on a seventh, Jacobs on a sixth. Good and Crawford need second. Hollabaugh needs $14,729 and the win projects at $12,711.
All of that holds only if $86,824 is still the number Sunday night, and it will not be. Boisjoli-Meged ropes in the third performance, and a sixth-place check of her own puts her at $93,179—more than a seventh-place check closes from any of the four chasing her. Beau Peterson sits $738 above her at No. 14 and Jenna Dallyn $3,104 above her at No. 13, and both of them rope Saturday.
It took $100,027 to make the NFBR last year and $77,757 the year before. Boisjoli-Meged is holding the line at $86,824 with Mandan, Pendleton and two weeks of regular season still to pay. Our working number for this year’s cut is about $95,000.
| Year | What it took to make the NFBR |
|---|---|
| 2024 | $77,757 |
| 2025 | $100,027 |
| 2026 | About $95,000 (our projection) |
Mandan rearranged the bubble the same way last year, when a muddy arena moved the top 15 in the last full week of the regular season.
At the Top of the Standings
Cheyanne McCartney leads at $180,561, $11,738 up on Hali Williams. A Mandan win for Williams with McCartney out of the money puts Williams in front by $2,879. McCartney is also $10,614 under the $191,175 regular-season record Taylor Munsell set in 2025—second place in Mandan clears it.
Danielle Lowman and Cadee Williams are $24 apart at No. 7 and No. 8, $116,857 to $116,833, and they rope back-to-back Sunday afternoon. Rylee George holds third $4,219 up on Josie Conner and Jordi Edens-Mitchell holds fifth $4,381 up on Munsell, and a fourth-place check covers either gap.
The Sioux Falls Cutoff
Points, not money, decide the Governor’s Cup. The Cinch Playoff Series standings lock Monday, Sept. 21—the Monday after Mandan and Pendleton finish—and the top eight go to Sioux Falls alongside the four who advanced out of Puyallup. Mandan is a Playoff Series rodeo, which makes it the last points on the board for most of this field.
McCartney holds eighth at 845.60 points. Bradi Good is 46.84 back and Jordan Hollabaugh 53.33. Josie Conner already has a Sioux Falls seat—she and Jackie Crawford split the Puyallup win—and she is also first in points, so the line runs at least one name deeper than eighth.
| No. | Roper | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Rylee George | 892.09 |
| 7 | Martha Angelone | 849.45 |
| 8 | Cheyanne McCartney | 845.60 |
| 9 | Bradi Good | 798.76 |
| 10 | Jordan Hollabaugh | 792.27 |
| 11 | Beau Peterson | 745.62 |
| 12 | Suzanne Williams | 736.06 |
| 13 | Jill Tanner | 734.51 |
The points post Monday, Sept. 21. The regular season closes Sept. 30.
Mandan Daysheets
Perf 1 | Friday, Sept. 18, 6:30 p.m.
| Order | Roper | Hometown |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kamie Crouse | Cushing, Oklahoma |
| 2 | Tiffany Schieck | Floresville, Texas |
| 3 | Jade Mitchell | Weatherford, Texas |
| 4 | Rickie Engesser | Spearfish, South Dakota |
| 5 | Kinlie Brennise | Craig, Colorado |
| 6 | Jill Tanner | Stephenville, Texas |
| 7 | Hali Williams | Comanche, Texas |
| 8 | Danielle Wray | Ord, Nebraska |
| 9 | Haiden Thompson | Yoder, Wyoming |
| 10 | Taylor Engesser | Spearfish, South Dakota |
| 11 | Suzanne Williams | Standish, California |
| 12 | Sawyer Gilbert | Buffalo, South Dakota |
Perf 2 | Saturday, Sept. 19, 6:30 p.m.
| Order | Roper | Hometown |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jenna Dallyn | Nanton, Alberta |
| 2 | Madalyn Richards | Hereford, Texas |
| 3 | Rylee George | Oakdale, California |
| 4 | Josie Conner | Iowa, Louisiana |
| 5 | Jaci Hammons | Dublin, Texas |
| 6 | Amber Carson | Grassy Butte, North Dakota |
| 7 | Shalee Oftedahl | Kaysville, Utah |
| 8 | Maddy Jacobs | Hope, New Mexico |
| 9 | Taylor Munsell | Alva, Oklahoma |
| 10 | Cheyanne McCartney | Kingston, Oklahoma |
| 11 | Madison Outhier | Utopia, Texas |
| 12 | Beau Peterson | Council Grove, Kansas |
Perf 3 | Sunday, Sept. 20, 2 p.m.
| Order | Roper | Hometown |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jackie Crawford | Stephenville, Texas |
| 2 | Josie Goodrich | Stanfield, Oregon |
| 3 | Shelby Boisjoli-Meged | Calgary, Alberta |
| 4 | Jordan Hollabaugh | Springtown, Texas |
| 5 | Aspen Miller | Santa Fe, Texas |
| 6 | Bradi Good | Abilene, Texas |
| 7 | Martha Angelone | Stephenville, Texas |
| 8 | Danielle Lowman | Gilbert, Arizona |
| 9 | Cadee Williams | Big Timber, Montana |
| 10 | Jordi Edens-Mitchell | Stephenville, Texas |
| 11 | Erin Johnson | Fowler, Colorado |
| 12 | Amy Ohrt | Victoria, Texas |
Results
1. Cheyanne McCartney, 1.8 seconds, $12,464; 2. (tie) Shelby Boisjoli-Meged and Josie Goodrich, 1.9, $9,037 each; 4. Taylor Munsell, 2.0, $6,232; 5. (tie) Erin Johnson, Aspen Miller, Haiden Thompson and Hali Williams, 2.1, $3,661 each; 9. (tie) Jenna Dallyn and Amy Ohrt, 2.3, $2,337 each; 11. (tie) Bradi Good and Beau Peterson, 2.4, $1,714 each; 13. Jackie Crawford, 2.5, $1,246; 14. (tie) Amber Carson, Jordi Edens-Mitchell and Sawyer Gilbert, 2.6, $519 each.
