{"id":136083,"date":"2026-06-28T17:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-quincy-morgan-montoya-earns-reserve-all-around-champion-at-college-national-finals-rodeo\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:15:25","slug":"mancos-quincy-morgan-montoya-earns-reserve-all-around-champion-at-college-national-finals-rodeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-quincy-morgan-montoya-earns-reserve-all-around-champion-at-college-national-finals-rodeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos\u2019 Quincy Morgan-Montoya earns reserve all-around champion at College National Finals Rodeo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mancos High School graduate Quincy Morgan-Montoya competes at the 2026 College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyoming. Morgan-Montoya earned reserve all-around champion in the competition. (Courtesy of New Mexico Junior College Athletics)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

CASPER, WY \u2013 When the lights shine the brightest, Mancos High School alumnus Quincy Morgan-Montoya shows up with her best.<\/p>\n

Competing on the national stage has become old hat for the Class of \u201924 Bluejay graduate, and with a rope in her hand again in Casper for the College National Finals Rodeo (June 12-20), Morgan-Montoya demonstrated her prowess as one of the most well-rounded collegiate cowgirls in the country. Competing in both goat tying and breakaway roping, Morgan-Montoya accrued 70 points for New Mexico Junior College, earning reserve all-around champion at the week\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

Goat tying has been a one of Morgan-Montoya\u2019s premier events dating back to her early days in the sport \u2013 while at MHS, Morgan-Montoya showcased her speed and consistency while capturing the 2023 Colorado State Championship in the event. She went on to place third at the National High School Finals Rodeo later that summer. Morgan-Montoya competed for the Basin Rodeo team in the Four Corners region before making the jump to the collegiate scene.<\/p>\n

Competing as one of the top athletes for the Thunderbirds in Hobbs, New Mexico, Morgan Montoya racked up strong performances throughout the season to earn a coveted entry into the CNFR in both goat tying and breakaway roping.<\/p>\n

Kicking off the week\u2019s festivities, Morgan-Montoya posted one of the fastest times of the entire field in her opening goat tying go \u2013 earning a time of 6.1 seconds. She followed the effort with times of 7.5 and 7.6 in her second and third go-round efforts, taking 20th in the field and narrowly missing out the on the top 14 qualifying spots for the short go.<\/p>\n

In breakaway roping, Morgan-Montoya positioned herself among the top riders in the field through the first two runs, blazing times a time of 2.8 seconds in her first go before raising her game further with a time of two-seconds-flat in the second go. However, Morgan-Montoya wasn\u2019t able to post a time in her third run, leaving her in 22nd place and just outside the short go championship round.<\/p>\n

Morgan-Montoya\u2019s 70 points from her two events matched the mark earned by Southeastern Oklahoma State\u2019s Emma Ricke, while the University of Wyoming\u2019s Josie Mousel collected 395 points to win the all-around to go along with winning the goat tying national title. Morgan-Montoya\u2019s point total also helped NMJC finish 20th as a team in the overall standings, as Texas A&M University captured the women\u2019s national team title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Mexico Junior College sophomore continues to shine on the national rodeo scene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6313],"tags":[28,37,937,6419],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-136083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-2","tag-headlines","tag-mancos-high-school","tag-rodeo","tag-tj-trueanthem"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136200,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136083\/revisions\/136200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136083"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=136083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}