CTEC Rookie snags crown. Justin Thigpen dominates CINCH Timed Event Championship on its 35th anniversary
Written by: Ted Harbin March 10, 2019 / Guthrie, Oklahoma – Seventeen days before the opening round of the CINCH Timed Event Championship, Justin Thigpen took a call from the Lazy E Arena inviting him to be a replacement for the injured JoJo LeMond. Fifty hours after he roped his first steer, the Waycross, Georgia, cowboy became just the 15th man to win the “Ironman of ProRodeo” in the event’s 35th year. What’s even bigger is that he became the third rookie in that time to claim the title and the top prize: Leo Camarillo won it in the first…