April 10, 2024 – The Clovis Rodeo Association was honored by the Clovis City Council at the meeting on Monday, April 8th.
“The more than 700 members of this association have a long history of service to our community and work hard to preserve the American cowboy tradition of rodeo and Clovis western heritage,” read the proclamation to recognize the 110th anniversary of the Clovis rodeo this year.
The proclamation acknowledged the beginning of the rodeo in 1914 as Clovis Festival Day by the Clovis Womens’ club, where rodeo events were part of the celebration.
“We’ve got to have a good city to work with and it’s been our pleasure to work with you,” Clovis Rodeo Co-announcer Mark Thompson said to the council, “This is an awesome place to put a rodeo on… You provide us with a good fanbase… they want to see a a good rodeo and we do our best to keep prices down and to provide them with good, clean family entertainment.”