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Cody DeMoss

Cody DeMoss
Event: Saddle bronc riding and team roping
2007 World Standings place: 3rd (SB), 3rd (AA)
2007 Wrangler NFR place: 4th
2007 Wrangler NFR earnings: $74,700
2007 earnings: $185,780 (SB), $189,567 (AA)
Career earnings: $931,579
Born: Jan. 14, 1981, in Crowville, La.
Residence: Heflin, La.
Joined PRCA: 2000
World titles: 0
Wrangler NFR qualifications: 5 (2003-07)
Tour Finale titles: 3
Omaha Finale: 2004, 2007
Championship: 2005
Tour Finale qualifications: 13
Pace Chute-out: 2004-06
Caldwell: 2007
Puyallup: 2007
Omaha Finale: 2004-07
Championship: 2004-07
Education: Northeast Texas Community College (Mount Pleasant), associate’s degree in farm & ranch management
 

Professional

2008 Highlights
 Won the Heart O' Texas Fair and Rodeo (Waco).

 

 Won the West of the Pecos (Texas) Rodeo.
 

 Co-champion at the Old Fort Days (Fort Smith, Ark.) Rodeo.


 

2007 Highlights
All-around titles
 Arcadia All-Florida Championship Rodeo (finished second in saddle bronc riding and fifth in team roping with Natie Johnson).
Saddle bronc riding titles
 

 Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Ariat Playoffs (Omaha, Neb.) and set a new arena record with a 91 on Powder River Rodeo’s Miss Congeniality.
 

 Won the Southwestern International PRCA Rodeo (El Paso, Texas).
 

 Won the Canby (Ore.) Rodeo.
 

 Won the Calgary Stampede $100,000 round (not sanctioned by the PRCA).
 

 Won the West of the Pecos (Texas) Rodeo.
 

 Co-champion at the Buc Days Pro Rodeo (Corpus Christi, Texas).
 

 Won the average title for third consecutive year at Rodeo Austin.
Career Highlights
 

 2006 - Finished the year as the regular-season leader with $145,544. Finished the year second in the world with $186,890. Finished 14th at the Wrangler NFR and won $41,346. Placed in three rounds at the Wrangler NFR, winning the seventh round with an 87.5-point ride. Did not compete in the final round due to a lower back injury he sustained during the eighth round; won the State Fair of Louisiana Pro Rodeo (Shreveport, La.), the Amarillo (Texas) Tri-State Fair Pro Rodeo, the Ogden (Utah) Pioneer Days Rodeo, the Molalla (Ore.) Buckaroo, the Parker County Frontier Days Pro Rodeo (Weatherford, Texas), the 46th annual Daines Ranch Rodeo (Innisfail, Alberta), the North Central Rodeo (Medford, Wis.), the Redding (Calif.) Rodeo, the Arcadia (Fla.) All-Fla. Championship Rodeo, the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Rodeo (Fort Worth, Texas) and Ark-La-Miss Stampede Days (Monroe, La.); won the average title at the Laughlin (Nev.) River Stampede, won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at Rodeo Austin and won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at the San Angelo (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo; tied for the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and the average titles at the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up and was co-champion at the Magic Valley Stampede (Filer, Idaho).
 

 2005 - Won the Heart O' Texas Fair and Rodeo (Waco), the Cattlemen’s Days Rodeo (Gunnison, Colo.), the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo (Casper, Wyo.), the World’s Oldest Rodeo Prescott (Ariz.) Frontier Days, the Southern Miss Coca-Cola Classic Rodeo (Hattiesburg, Miss.), the Annual SW District Livestock Show & Rodeo (Lake Charles, La.), the Natagorda County Fair, Livestock Show & Rodeo (Bay City, Texas), the YMBL Championship Rodeo (Beaumont, Texas), and the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at Rodeo Austin. Tied for the average title at the Farm-City Pro Rodeo (Hermiston, Ore.); won the average title and the Wrangler Tour round at the Days of ’47 Rodeo (Salt Lake City, Utah), won the average title in saddle bronc riding and all-around title at the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo after placing eighth in the average in team roping, was co-champion at the Mineral Wells (Texas) PRCA Rodeo; won the fifth round at the Wrangler NFR with an 83.5-point ride on Big Bend Rodeo’s No Dice and tied for first in the ninth and 10th round with scores of 87 on Cervi Championship’s Brown Bomber and 90 on Kesler Championship Rodeo’s Cool Alley, respectively. Finished second in the world with $239,373.
 

 2004 - Finished the year as the runner-up to the world title with $176,832 and placed 12th in the Wrangler NFR average race earning $52,556; Won average titles at National Western Rodeo (Denver), Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days, and Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.); won the Tour round win at Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo; was a semifinalist at Pace Picante ProRodeo Chute-out (Las Vegas) and the Pace Picante ProRodeo Classic (Dallas); won the Pace Picante ProRodeo Challenge title (Omaha, Neb.); won Round 3 at the Wrangler NFR with an 84-point ride aboard Kesler Rodeo’s Strawberry Alley and Round 7 with an 83.5 on Korkow Rodeo’s Queenie and placed in three other rounds. Finished as runner-up to five-time world champion Billy Etbauer in the world standings.
 

 2003 - Won RodeoHouston and Round 8 at the Wrangler NFR with an 87-point ride on Powder River Rodeo’s Show Me the Cards; finished 12th in the world standings with $77,140.
Amateur
National Little Britches Rodeo Association saddle bronc world champion, 1999; finished second at the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association Finals, 2002.
 

Personal

5-8, 160...Wife, Margie (married Oct. 2, 2004), daughter, Darbi...Nickname is Hot Sauce DeMoss. Got it when he was in college because he used to pour hot sauce on everything he ate in the cafeteria to make it taste better...Hobbies include hunting and fishing...Got interested in rodeo through his dad, Mike, a two-time National High School bareback riding champion, and Cody’s first competition was in 1986. He started out roping calves and then competed in team roping until he was a junior in high school, when he switched to saddle bronc riding. In 2007, he decided to start team roping more and is currently competing in both saddle bronc riding and team roping as a heeler...His parents are Mike and Vicki, his father works as a road construction engineer, and he has one brother, Heith, who is also a saddle bronc rider and a member of the PRCA...Travels with his brother Heith.