our sports: CHAMPIONSHIP BULL RIDING
Cody Teel crowned
CBR Champion
BY MELISSA MOORMAN
C
ody Teel said it best, “It’s been
a good month overall.” Championship Bull Riding (CBR) fans can
attest to that, as Teel is the winner of
the World Championship Bull Riding
2015 Road to Mahindra Tour that
culminated at the Cheyenne Frontier
Days Rodeo.
The win is the end of a five-round
CBR competition and the spoils
include a $100,000 check, a Hyo
silver belt buckle, custom Fenoglio
Boots, custom trophy saddle by Juan
Jose Muñoz Andrade and an eMax22
Gear tractor from Mahindra as well
as one of the most prestigious titles in
bull riding. Twenty-five of the industry’s elite bull riders were invited to
compete, but in the end it was just
one who dominated the World Finals.
Cody Teel of Kountze, Texas rode
five for five to win the one bull riding
champion title he had not earned.
Teel is the 2015 World Champion
with a final score of 1500 points and
season winnings of $113,000.
Leading his closest competitor
Sage Kimzey, PRCA and CBR reigning
World Champion, by only 32 points
at the end of May with the two cowboys going into the finals, the competition was incredibly tight. Teel was
battling an ankle injury after the first
night’s competition, but according
to him, “It felt good to go in there to
ride every bull. It always feels good.
I knew going in there I had to ride
everything to win the title.” The injury
was caused by the second bull he
rode on Monday night, a bull named
4 Rogaine who stepped on Teel. The
injury was serious enough to require
the use of crutches. Teel was able to
pull ahead of Sage Kimzey an additional point after the first night of
competition with a combined score of
173.5 points.
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Photo by Todd Brewer
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