More than 200 kids will put their cowboy skills to the test this weekend when the Junior Rodeo Cowboys Association hosts a spring competition at the Clarendon College Livestock & Equine Center on Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and 10.
JRCA officials say kids ranging in ages from three to 19 are registered for more than 1,100 runs over the two-day period. Events will run from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day, and admission is $5.
Scheduled events including barrel racing, pole bending, goat tying, tie down roping, team roping, ribbon roping, bull riding, bronc riding, and mutton busting.
JRCA is a non-profit organization serving the rodeo interests of youth from across the Texas Panhandle, Northwest Texas, and Western Oklahoma. Organized in 1998, the JRCA has enjoyed steady growth and now boasts about 300 members.
Members compete in traditional rodeo events in six different age groups for both girls and boys with regular season rodeos plus the two performance finals.
Members of the JRCA come from Lubbock on the southwest to Oklahoma City on the northeast and from Vernon on the southeast to the Oklahoma Panhandle on the northwest.
This weekend’s event is sponsored by the Clarendon Economic Development Corporation with Hotel Occupancy Tax Funds, and Clarendon Chamber of Commerce officials are preparing welcome bags encouraging rodeo attendees to support Chamber members.
For more information, visit www.jrcarodeo.com.
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