Our Mission

The Indiana Junior Rodeo Association was organized in 1989 to better educate and promote the sport of rodeo. The founding members saw a need to provide a training ground for younger children in the sport of rodeo. The organization was incorporated on September 7, 1990.

Our organization helps to build skills that our children can use in High School Rodeo and beyond. Our association promotes the building of character and sportsmanship in our young cowboys and cowgirls. We stress responsibility, cooperation and good conduct in our participants. We see this as a way to help our children to develop into outgoing and productive individuals in their communities.

Inside many children is the desire to become a part of the West by being a cowboy or cowgirl. We strive to encourage children to perform to his or her highest potential and to realize their dreams.

Our association is a non-profit, independent athletic association that uses no school or tax dollars and we provide for our own insurance coverage.

We have a variety of events that our children can compete in. We have different events for our younger children that allow them to develop skills needed to compete in the older divisions and in high school rodeo.

Our season runs from August to August so our age groups are set to run with the school year. We have children competing before kindergarten through the senior. The competition is divided into four divisions: 4 and under, little wrangler 5-8, junior boy and girl 9-13, senior boy and girl 14-18. In some events, boys and girls compete against each other, in other events they compete separately.

Inside every child there is the need to be accepted for who and what they are. We, through our organization, strive to provide the best possible growing ground for our competitors.