Missoula duo Kade Robinson and Adam Guajardo head to Montana State
Kade Robinson and Adam Guajardo are headed to Montana State after a Shrine Game win that sharpened their case as Bobcats-ready in-state additions.
Two Missoula products are taking the shortest of football roads into Bozeman after helping the West All-Stars win their sixth straight Montana East-West Shrine Game. Kade Robinson and Adam Guajardo leave Butte with a win attached to their final high school chapter and Montana State as the next stop.
The West’s 2026 victory came Saturday, June 20, in the 79th Shrine Game at Naranche Stadium, where Rudy Hess sealed a tight fourth-quarter game with a 48-yard interception return. The contest has been played in Montana since 1947 and carries a purpose beyond the scoreboard, raising money and awareness for the orthopedic and burn care unit at Shriners Children’s hospital in Spokane, Washington.
For Robinson and Guajardo, the value of the Shrine Game is in what it says about the move that follows. Montana State is adding two players who were tested in one of the state’s most visible all-star stages, then finished on the winning side of a defensive battle. That matters in Bozeman, where the Bobcats have long leaned on Montana prospects who bring more than recruiting buzz: they bring familiarity with the state’s football culture, a feel for pressure, and a résumé built in front of the same crowds that will follow them at the college level.
Missoula has remained an important stop on that pipeline, and this pairing gives Montana State another in-state link to a program that keeps looking for local players who fit its identity. Robinson and Guajardo are not arriving as raw projection pieces alone. They arrive as West all-stars who helped extend a series run to six straight and who learned the value of a game that doubles as a measuring stick for what comes next.
What they must prove now is simpler and harder: that the competitive edge they showed in Butte translates to Montana State’s practice field, where every rep is faster and every roster spot is earned. The Bobcats will not be asking them to relive the Shrine Game. They will be asking them to show that they can turn a successful all-star finish into a role in Bozeman.
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