Joe Twigg grew up on a dairy farm in Cornelius Oregon and decided to break family tradition by not taking over the farm.  After high school Twigg competed in collegiate football and track before joining the Army and changing schools. Currently Twigg is a very busy senior at Oregon State University and a soldier in the Army National Guard. After college he will be commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and serve with the 1/82 Cavalry as a Platoon Leader with a deployment somewhere in the Middle East in the near future.

 

Even though Twigg will be gone for a year he is committed to come back from his deployment and still have work as a bullfighter, as it is his true passion in life. Being in the National Guard Twigg has plans to continue fighting bulls and hopefully make a career out of it. "Joe Twigg has a ton of talent" says a Washington State bullrider, "he is one of the most athletic, aware bullfighters on the circuit today."

 

Along with the Army and rodeo, he hopes to someday get a ranch. When Twigg started fighting bulls he knew he had found something that made him happy. Joe comments:

"I find it hard to call fighting bulls a job, because I get paid to do something that I love. "