Morgan McGuire on fire in barrel racing

CODY, WYOMING – Brewster High School junior Morgan McGuire is not only an All-League First Team standout in basketball and volleyball, she is also an award-winning rodeo competitor as well.

Astride her 10-year-old quarter horse, Squirrel, McGuire posted a blazing barrel racing time of 18.83 seconds good for second place in the Cody Stampede Rodeo billed as the “Rodeo Capitol of the World.”

And Cody was just a stop-over.

McGuire’s mother, Brooke, wrote that the family was heading to the week-long finals of the National High School Rodeo in Gilette, Wyoming, from July 16-23.

McGuire has been competing in the Washington State Junior Rodeo Association (WSHSRA) for the past three years and before that in the Caribou Junior Rodeo Association and National Barrel Race Association (NBRA) for the past six years. Her first place standing in the state’s pole bending event qualified McGuire for the national finals which includes the top four finalists from each state and from Australia, Canada, and Mexico.

As a rodeo competitor since she was 10 years old, McGuire has experience in breakaway roping, goat tying, pole bending, and barrel racing.  While she is an outstanding athlete on the court, her mother said “her true love is for rodeo.”

McGuire has her sights on college-level rodeo and a spot in veterinary school.