COLORADO SPRINGS - Colorado School of Mines legend Jack Hancock has been elected to the RMAC Hall of Fame, one of eight members making up the 2016 class.

Hancock touched almost every aspect of Mines athletics during his 37-year tenure in Golden. He was the head coach for both wrestling and tennis, assisted in football, and was the head athletic trainer. Hancock was previously elected to the CSM, Northern Colorado, and NCAA Wrestling halls of fame.

Hancock was perhaps best known for his contributions to college wrestling, serving the entirety of his 37 yards at Mines as that program's head coach from 1955 to 1992. He guided the Orediggers to national second-place finishes in 1961 and 1964 along with a fourth-place finish in 1967 and an eighth-place showing in 1991. Hancock produced 33 all-Americans and three national champions: Dave Linder (1964), Richard Hickman (1964), and Don Morrison (1967), and he also recruited 1993 national champion and 2015 RMAC Hall of Fame inductee Glen Frank. Hancock also served as chair of the 25-Year Service Committee of the National Wrestling Coaches' Association.

Hancock also had two terms as the head tennis coach for Mines, from 1955 to 1966 and again from 1979 to 1992, winning RMAC titles in 1983 and 1988. He was an assistant football coach from 1955 to 1968, and Mines' head athletic trainer from 1955 to 1978.

The RMAC will induct its 2016 Hall of Fame class this summer during its annual awards banquet in Colorado Springs. He is the 10th Oredigger elected to the RMAC Hall of Fame.