ALAMOSA – Jaycee Francis of Monte Vista opened the 2026 National Junior High School Finals Rodeo with a pole bending performance on Sunday, a girls breakaway roping performance on Monday morning, and a girls goat tying perfromance on Monday evening.

Francis had a time of 21.622 seconds to finish fifth in the pole bending performance. She was in 25^th place overall as of Tuesday morning.

On Monday morning, Francis had the best time in the second performance of girls breakaway roping with a time of 2.52 seconds. It was the fourth best time in the go-round as of Tuesday morning.

She had her first performance in girls goat tying on Monday evening. She had a time of 20.78 seconds which was 21^st in the performance. She was in 68^th place over all as of Tuesday morning.

She will have her second go in girls goat tying on Friday morning, girls breakaway roping on Friday evening, and pole bending on Saturday morning.