COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference announced its All-Conference teams and major award winners Friday morning and for their efforts this season, two members of the Colorado School of Mines men's soccer team were honored for their performances this season as Ayman Bushara was named Second Team All-Conference while Quin Collins earned Honorable Mention laurels.
 
Bushara shined in his first season of competition in 2024 after joining the program last fall and was an offensive force over the second half of the season and a major reason behind the Orediggers' outstanding finish to the season and return to the RMAC Tournament. The Aurora native led Mines in scoring with nine goals and ended the regular season on a seven-match scoring streak. He also added three assists for a total of 21 points and put 17 of his 28 shots on goal. Bushara was also 1-1 on penalty kicks and registered three game-winners across 942 minutes in 17 appearances with 14 starts. He finishes the fall ranked second in the RMAC in scoring and tied for second in winning goals.
 
Collins closes his career with his first All-RMAC honors after previously having been named to the 2022 All-Tournament and Most Valuable Player. The senior from Austin, Texas scored three times with two assists for eight points from his midfield spot and appeared in all 19 matches for Mines with 15 starts and logged 1,457 minutes, good for second on the team. Earlier this week he was named a First Team All-Academic honoree by the league for the second time in his career.
 
CSU Pueblo took home three major awards as Caio Oliveira took home Player of the Year honors while Shjon Andrews was named Defensive Player of the Year for a third time. ThunderWolves boss Oliver Twelvetrees was named the league's Coach of the Year. Soren Russell claimed Goalkeeper of the Year honors for UCCS while Fort Lewis took home Freshman of the Year honors for second consecutive season with Fabrizio Aguilera.
 
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RMAC Player of the Year: Caio Oliveira, CSU Pueblo
RMAC Freshman of the Year: Fabrizio Aguilera, Fort Lewis
RMAC Defensive Player of the Year: Shjon Andrews, CSU Pueblo
RMAC Goalkeeper of the Year: Soren Russell, UCCS
RMAC Coach of the Year: Oliver Twelvetrees, CSU Pueblo
 
2024 RMAC Men's Soccer First Team All-Conference
Liam Corr, F, So., Regis
Gabriel Legendre, F, 5^th Year, Fort Lewis
Tobi Osifodunrin, F, Sr., CSU Pueblo
Elias Taubo, F, Sr., Regis
Dani Barajas, M, Sr., UCCS
Jacobo Betancourt-Tovar, M, So., Regis
David Citron, M, Jr., Fort Lewis
Caio Oliveira, M, Sr., CSU Pueblo
Shjon Andrews, D, Gr., CSU Pueblo
Alon Firdman, D, Sr., CSU Pueblo
Jakob Larson, D, Sr., Fort Lewis
Rory Scott, D, Jr., UCCS
Soren Russell, GK, Jr., UCCS
 
2024 RMAC Men's Soccer Second Team All-Conference
Ayman Bushara, F, R-Jr., Mines
Tomas Duenes, F, Sr., Fort Lewis
Miles Seminario, F, Jr., UCCS
Nick Walker, F, Jr., UCCS
Luke Bone, M, Jr., MSU Denver
Marc Bonafe, M, Jr., Colorado Mesa
Lars Walczyk, M, R-Sr., UCCS
Landon Ward, M, Sr., Westminster
Ignatius DeMark, D, Sr., CSU Pueblo
Nicco Schiappa, D, Sr., MSU Denver
Casey Stracher, D, Jr., Fort Lewis
Jackson Vander Ven, D, Sr., MSU Denver
Diego Chavez, GK, R-Jr., Colorado Mesa
 
2024 RMAC Men's Soccer Honorable Mention
Avery Richards, Adams State
Tiago Gomes, Colorado Christian
Kensho Negi, Colorado Mesa
Quin Collins, Mines
Lucas Martin, Fort Lewis
Fabrizio Aguilera, Fort Lewis
Charlie Matsumoto, MSU Denver
Noah Hannula, MSU Denver
Bellina Ignacio, Regis
Sahar Golov, Regis
Julian Fally, Regis
Jack Cardwell, Westminster
Owen Gallo, Westminster