Academic All-Conference List
 
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference announced its All-Academic First Team and Academic Honor Roll Wednesday for women's soccer as Allie Lundgren and Natalie Rouse headlined the academic honors for the Orediggers.
 
Lundgren repeats First Team All-Academic honors from a season ago and remains one of the top netminders in the RMAC this fall. The senior from Coto de Caza, California has started all 18 matches and logged 1,443:49 in goal this season, posting a career-high 62 saves and allowing 13 goals for an .827 save percentage and a goals against average of 0.81. A two-time RMAC Goalkeeper of the Week this fall, Lundgren has posted a 13-2-3 record with five shutouts and ranks fifth in the RMAC in GAA and saves while her save percentage is good for fourth and her five shutouts sixth. She carries a 3.94 GPA in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering.
 
Rouse, who was announced Tuesday as Defensive Player of the Year for the second time in her career, returned to action this fall without so much as missing a beat. Twice named RMAC Defensive Player of the Week this season, Rouse scored four times for eight points. A starter in all 18 matches, she clocked 1,599 minutes of action and helped anchor a defense that has posted a 0.78 goals against average and eight shutouts. In May she graduated with a degree in Applied Mathematics & Statistics with a 3.98 GPA and is currently working on a graduate degree in Operations Research Nuclear Engineering.
 
A further 14 Orediggers were named to the league's Academic Honor Roll for the academic accomplishments as Carly Walter, Izzy Sontheimer, Kaitlyn Manalili, Callie Fuhr, Jolie Jiricek, Lindsay Jeans, Annelise Rojo, Jordan Bowermaster, Anna Gessner, Sam Forde, Sadie Wolf, Afton Rasco, Bella Campos and Gabriela Rodríguez were recognized. Mines' 16 total academic honorees were the third-most in the conference behind UCCS with 18 and Western Colorado with 17.
 
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