One of the most accomplished Cowboys of all time, Quincy Howe begins his 16th season with the UW program in 2020-21, entering his fourth season as associate head track & field coach. Howe oversees UW’s jumpers. He spent the 2012-14 as an assistant coach at West Texas A&M University, after serving on the UW coaching staff from 2003 to 2012.
Since the 2021 season, Howe has led several jumpers to All-American status and to conference titles. Kareem Mersal has won three conference titles in the long jump as well as earning Second-Team All-American honors in the 2024 indoor season. Mersal was also joined by Remar Pitter as Second-Team All-American honoree in 2024. Howe has also led many women to conference podium finishes and NCAA Regionals in the long jump in Sadie McMullen and Shayla Howell.
In 2020, Howe guided Shayla Howell to all-Mountain West honors in the long jump, as she finished third at the league championships. She was also Wyoming’s highest ranked national competitor, as she was ranked 29th in the nation in the long jump with a leap of 20-4.5, which is third all-time at Wyoming. She earned MW Athlete of the Week honors for that jump. Aumni Ashby placed sixth in the triple jump for the Cowgirls. The men’s jumpers earned a total of 11 points at the championships, highlighted by William Nolan’s fifth-place finish in the long jump. In the classroom, Howell was named an all-academic performer by the USTFCCCA.
In 2019, Howe mentored four student-athletes to seven All-America honors during the indoor and outdoor seasons, while helping two student-athletes set school records. Ja’la Henderson earned indoor and outdoor All-America honors in the triple jump, and set the indoor school record in the event. He guided Jerayah Davis to All-America accolades in the outdoor long jump and 4x100m relay, after Davis set the outdoor long jump record. Jordan Edmonds and Shayla Howell were also on the relay team and earned All-America honors. For his efforts, Howe was named the USTFCCCA Mountain Region Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year, the first regional honor for any Wyoming coach in program history.
In 2018, Howe guided Ja’la Henderson to one of the best seasons for a Cowgirl jumper in program history. Henderson earned four all-Mountain West honors in the indoor and outdoor long jump and triple jump, with the season culminating in Henderson earning a pair of All-American honors in the outdoor long jump and triple jump, the first Cowgirl to earn the honor in triple jump. Henderson broke the school’s triple jump record four times during the season.
In 2017, Howe led Scott Carter to an historic senior campaign. Carter won both the indoor and outdoor Mountain West triple jump championships as well as taking runner-up honors in the long jump at both meets. Carter posted a mark of 53 feet, 4.25 inches in the triple jump at a dual meet in May 2017, second on the UW all-time list behind only Howe. He went on to record the No. 2 mark on the UW all-time list in the outdoor long jump, leaping 25-3.5 at the MW outdoor championships. Carter ended his season with one of the most incredible performances in Cowboy track & field history, taking the bronze medal in the triple jump at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a jump of 53-3.5 to become the first Cowboy All-American in the event since Howe in 2002.
A 2009 inductee into the UW Athletics Hall of Fame, Howe is widely considered the best jumper in Cowboy history. He was a two-time All-American indoors in the triple jump in 2001 and 2002, but was dominant at the conference level. He never lost to a conference foe in his four years in the Western Athletic Conference and Mountain West, as he won a total of eight conference titles. The native of Parry Lands, Trinidad, still owns Wyoming school records in the triple jump indoors at 54-9.25 and outdoors at 54-4.75, while ranking seventh outdoors in the long jump at 24-5.5. His indoor triple jump mark still stands as a MW all-time record, while his outdoor mark is second in conference history. For his accomplishments, Howe was named to the MW 10th Anniversary Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field teams.Â
Howe went on to compete professionally for his native country of Trinidad & Tobago, as he placed third at the 2002 NACAC games and ninth at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. He was also a 2003 Pan-Am Games team selection, before joining the Wyoming coaching staff as a graduate assistant. He was hired full-time in 2005 and went on to coach three NCAA Championship participants, 12 conference champions, 37 all-conference performers and 17 NCAA Regional qualifiers during his first nine years with the Cowboys and Cowgirls.Â
During his two years at NCAA Division II West Texas, Howe coached six All-Americans, 12 NCAA Championship participants and three conference champions. Howe earned his bachelor’s degree in bioelectrical engineering from UW in 2003 and a master’s degree in biomechanics in 2010. He is a USATF Level I and Level II (jumps) certified coach.
He and his wife, Lay-nah, have two sons, Mahlon and Imriy, and a daughter, Adsila.