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2024-25 Men's Track & Field Roster

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Antonio Clark
Jessica Blahnik, WCU Athletics

Kelsey Montague

  • Height 5-8
  • Events Long Sprints
  • Hometown Simla, Colo.
  • High School Simla
  • Indoor Yr. Redshirt Senior
  • Outdoor Yr. N/A

Biography

TFRRS Career Results Page

Career Honors
  • Second Team USTFCCCA All-American - 2024 Outdoor (400m Hurdles)
  • USTFCCCA South Central Region Top Performer - 2024 Outdoor (400m Hurdles)
  • USTFCCCA All-South Central Region - 2024 Outdoor (400m Hurdles)
  • RMAC Champion - 2024 Outdoor (400 Hurdles)
  • 8x Overall All-RMAC
    • 4x First Team
      • 2022 Indoor (400m)
      • 2023 Outdoor (400m Hurdles)
      • 2024 Indoor (400m)
      • 2024 Outdoor (400m Hurdles)
    • 4x Second Team
      • 2022 Outdoor (400m & 4x400m Relay)
      • 2024 Indoor (4x400m Relay)
      • 2024 Outdoor (4x400m Relay)
  • School Record Holder in three events
    • 400m Hurdles (51.91)
    • Indoor 4x400m Relay (3:14.83)
    • Outdoor 4x400m Relay (3:14.44)
  • 2024 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
  • 5x RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
2024-25 Indoor (Redshirt Senior): Wrapped up his career with a strong season… Named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll… Finished seventh in the 400 meters at the RMAC Championships with a time of 49.84 seconds… Was ranked 12th on the RMAC’s season-long performers list with the converted time of 48.90 after running to a preliminary round mark of 48.46 seconds… Posted an actual season-best of 49.23 at the Colorado Invitational to qualify for the RMAC meet… Also helped the Mavs place fifth in the 4x400 relay at the conference meet with a time of 3:21.70, eighth fastest in program history… Had anchored the Mavs to the No. 7 ranking time of 3:21.64 at the Colorado Invitational… Won both the 400 and the 4x400 relay at the Mountaineer Open… Also attempted the 60 meters, the 200 meters and the triple jump one time each throughout the season… Had marks of 7.21 and 22.78 in the shorter running events at the ASU Qualifier #1… Took third in the triple jump with an effort of 13.27 meters (43-6.5) at the ASU Qualifer #2.

2024 Outdoor (Senior): Was the conference’s top 400-meter hurdler, winning that event at the RMAC Championships with a school-record time of 51.91 seconds, which also led the RMAC’s season-long performance list… That effort also allowed him to qualify for his first NCAA Championship and made him the USTFCCCA’s South Central Region Top Performer… Garnered Second Team USTFCCCA All-America honors with an 11th place finish in 52.69 seconds at the national meet after also earning all-region plaudits… Competed in six meets in total, running the hurdles at each… Won the event at both of CMU’s two home regular season meets… Also made two 4x400-meter relay appearances throughout the campaign… Earned a RMAC Championship silver medal and Second Team All-RMAC certificate as part of the Mavs’ school-record setting team that finished in 3:14.44… Has now been a part of four of the five fastest outdoor relay teams in school history… Was named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team and earned RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll status.

2023-24 Indoor (Redshirt Junior): Earned two RMAC Championship medals and all-conference certificates capping a strong season… Competed in four meets overall… Placed third in the 400 meters with a flat track time of 49.55 seconds at the conference meet to claim the bronze medal and First Team All-RMAC plaudits… Had run a season and indoor career-best of 49.32 on a banked track at the New Mexico Team Open to rank second in CMU history… Also ran the opening leg on CMU’s silver medal winning 4x400-meter relay team to garner a Second Team All-RMAC certificate… That team finished in 3:22.99 to rank ninth in school history… Helped the Mavs set the school-record of 3:14.83 at the New Mexico Team Open… Also ran on the Mavs’ winning relay team at the Mountaineer Open (3:24.41)… Has been a part of the four fastest and nine of the 12 fastest indoor 4x400 relay efforts in program history… Raced in the 200 meters one time, posting an indoor PR of 22.46 at the aforementioned New Mexico meet… Finished fifth on the RMAC season long performance list in the 400 with a converted time of 48.89… Was a part of the school-record relay team which ranked third in the conference with their converted and NCAA Championship provisional qualifying time of 3:15.27… Named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.

2023 Outdoor (Junior): Competed in four meets, including the RMAC Championships… Earned the bronze medal and First Team All-RMAC honors with a third place finish in the 400-meter hurdles… Posted a time of 54.35 seconds to do so before running a season-best time of 54.32 a week later at the CSU Pueblo Last Chance Invitational… Was also ranked fourth on RMAC’s season-long performance list with the altitude-adjusted time of 54.43… Also helped the Mavs place fourth in the 4x400-meter relay at the RMAC Championships with a time of 3:15.84, third fastest in program-history… Was also a part of the No. 9 ranking time (3:18.62), which came at the CSU Pueblo Open… Ran the 200 (22.72) and 400 (49.87) for the only time of the season at the Maverick Invite… Named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.

2022-23 Indoor (Redshirt Sophomore): Ran in seven meets, including the RMAC Championships… Placed ninth in the 400 meters at the conference meet with a time of 50.60… Had posted a season-best of 49.55 at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic… Also ran on the Mavs’ 4x400-meter and distance medley relay teams at the RMAC Championships… Helped the team finish seventh in both… Had helped the Mavs set a since-broken 4x400-meter school-record time of 3:17.40 at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic… That converted time of 3:17.84 put the Mavs third on the RMAC’s season-long performance list… Ranked 14th on the RMAC’s individual performers list in the 400 with a converted time of 49.66 from the New Mexico meet… Ran in the 200 and 800 meters once each… Had a 200 time of 22.70 at the Wes Lavong Open and a time of 2:04.19 in the 800 at the Western Colorado Open… Had three total top-3 finishes throughout the season… Named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.

2022 Outdoor (Sophomore): Competed in five different events in four meets… Specialized in the 400 meters… Earned a pair of Second Team All-RMAC honors after placing fifth in the 400 and second in the 4x400-meter relay at the RMAC Championships… Finished amongst the top-5 in all eight of his running event efforts throughout the campaign… Set a career-best time of 48.91 in the 400 to rank fifth in program history… Helped the Mavs set a former school-record time of 3:15.69 in the relay… Finished the 200 meters in 22.21 seconds at the Maverick Invite #2 in his lone attempt of the year at that event… Posted a season-best time of 55.68 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles in his first career attempt at that discipline... Posted a triple jump mark of 13.39 meters (43-11.25)… Turned in that effort at the Maverick Invite #1… Ranked ninth on the RMAC’s season-long performers list in the 400 with his altitude-adjusted time of 49.02.

2021-22 Indoor (Redshirt Freshman): Ran in six meets, including the RMAC Championships during a record-setting season… Earned First Team All-RMAC honors in the 400 meters after placing third at the conference championships with a time of 50.16 seconds… Was ranked seventh on the RMAC’s season-long performers list with a converted mark of 49.59 seconds… Had set a former-record time of 48.89 seconds to break CMU’s longest standing record of nine years at the New Mexico Classic… Also helped the Mavs set a then school-record time of 3:19.29 in the 4x400-meter relay in the same Albuquerque Convention Center venue during the Don Kirby Open & Elite… Went on to help the Mavs to a fourth place finish in the relay at the RMAC Championships… Had helped the Mavs set a then school-record time of 3:19.59 in his season debut at the Mel Tjeerdsma Classic… That time now fourth quickets in program history… Also competed in the 200 meters, triple jump and distance medley relay… Had a season-best time of 23.18 in the 200 at the New Mexico Classic… Had a triple jump best of 13.66 meters (44-9.75) at the Western Colorado Open… Ran the 800-meter leg on the CMU’s “A” DMR team at the Mountaineer Open & Multi, helping the unit to a time of 11:24.44.

2021 Outdoor (Freshman): Competed in six meets, including the RMAC Championships and all three home meets… Ran the 200, 400 and 800 meters and was a regular on 4x400-meter relay teams… Recorded a season-best time of 49.71 seconds in the 400 meters to place tenth at the RMAC Championships… Had qualified for the RMAC meet by winning the Maverick Open in 49.77 seconds… Posted a time of 1:58.88 in the 800 at the Maverick Multi & Open… Had a time of 23.35 in the 200 at the Loper Twilight #2 in his only attempt at that discipline… Helped the Mavs set a former school-record time of 3:17.40, now fifth fastest in CMU history, in the 4x400-meter relay at the conference meet as they took fifth.
 
2021 Indoor (Freshman):
Competed in four meets, including the RMAC Championships… Contested the 400 meters at all while running legs on the Mavs’ 4x400-meter and distance medley relays at the conference meet… Scored team points in all three… Claimed victory in his collegiate debut winning the 400 in a season-best 50.73 seconds at the Western Slope Challenge… That time was tied for eighth best on the RMAC season long performance list at 50.15 (converted)… Finished in the top three in each of his three regular season meets before taking seventh at the conference championships with a time of 50.93… Helped the Mavs set a school-record and NCAA Division II Provisional Championship qualifying time of 10:15.08 in the distance medley relay… Took sixth in the 4x400 relay with a time of 3:27.72… Ran the 60 meters at the Western Slope Challenge in 7.38 seconds.

Prep: 2020 graduate of Simla HS… Was a First Team All-State selection as a junior after helping the Cubs, coached by his mother Jeni, win state titles in both the 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays… Also finished third in the triple jump and fourth in the 800-meter individual events after winning the Black Forest League titles in both… Helped lead the squad to a state runner-up finish… Went on to finish fifth in the Colorado State Pentathlon… Finished fifth in the triple jump and sixth in the 800 meters at the 2018 state championships at the end of his sophomore season… Also qualified for state in both those events as a freshman, finishing 10th in each… Saw his 2020 senior season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but later posted PR’s of 2:00.62 (800), 19-9.75 (Long Jump) and 43-1 (Triple Jump) during the summer of 2020 as a member of the Colorado Springs Track Club… Also holds PRs of 24.52 (200), 52.95 (400) and 4:53.74 (1500)… Finished 18th at the 2019 State Cross Country Championships helping the team to a 2A State Runner-Up finish… Had finished 24th as a junior in 2018… Placed fourth (2019) and eighth (2018) at the regional meet… Earned All-State Honorable Mention All-Conference and Gazette Preps All-Area Honorable Mention honors during both the 2018 and 2019 cross country seasons.

Personal: Is majoring in kinesiology… Aspires to become a physical therapist and possibly an athletic director and track coach… Son of Kyle and Jeni Montague… Has an older sister— Kayelynn…  His cousin Payton Lewis plays soccer at CSU Pueblo… Hobbies include woodworking and Bible study… Also enjoys helping her grandmother on her ranch.

Why I Chose CMU: “When I visited Colorado Mesa this past spring on a recruiting trip, I really felt like I had found a good fit both academically and athletically. CMU has the academic program that I am interested in, and I hope to achieve my collegiate track and field goals here as well.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Freshman

    Long Sprints
    5'8"
  • 2021-22Redshirt Freshman

    Sprints
    5'8"
  • 2022-23Redshirt Sophomore

    Sprints
    5'8"
  • 2023-24Redshirt Junior

    Long Sprints
    5'8"
  • 2024-25Redshirt Senior

    Long Sprints
    5'8"