Men's Academic All-RMAC Teams
Women's Academic All-RMAC Teams

COLORADO SPRINGS - Academic Athlete of the Year Hunter Potrykus led 42 Orediggers honored on the RMAC All-Academic teams following the indoor track & field season. 

Potrykus was one of four First-Team Academic All-RMAC selections for the Mines men along with Everett Delate, Jonah Fallon, and Loic Scomparin, while the women garnered five first-teamers in Margaux Basart, Emily LaMena, Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge, Grace Strongman, and Dale Thompson. The Orediggers' nine total first-team honorees led the RMAC.

In addition to the first-team recipients, 33 Mines student-athletes were named to the RMAC Academic Honor Roll. For the men, those honorees included Jeremy Gillett, Aidan Bennett, Garrett Mackey, Matt Mettler, Jeremiah Vaille, Logan Bocovich, Chandler Wilburn, Noah Kelly, Shane Conley, Elijah Quinby, Tim Thompson, Alberto Campa, Prince Owusu-Ansah, Rowan Nicholas, Braden Struhs, Daniel Appleford, Andreas O'Malley, Brock Drengenberg, Dawson Gunn, Alex Shaw, and Coulton Chan. Women's Academic Honor Roll members include Allison Comer, Maria Forster, Ashleigh Loe, Lexi Herr, Claire Kintzley, Madeline Obuchowski, Arabella Chen, Abbi Gillespie, Grace Galvin, Aani Hardesty, Lisa Sutherland, and Jennifer Jarnagin.

Potrykus earns the conference's highest academic honor after completing his standout pole vaulting career during indoor season. A graduate student in mechanical engineering who has already earned his bachelor's degree from Mines, Potrykus was a USTFCCCA First-Team All-American after finishing fourth at the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, helping lead Mines to a third-place team finish. He cleared a season-best 5.34m at nationals, and graduates as the RMAC's co-recordholder for all-venues pole vault height at 5.41m set in 2024. This season he was also the RMAC silver medalist in helping the Orediggers to the RMAC Championships runner-up finish.

First-Team Academic All-RMAC teams are voted on by the conference's sports information directors, and nominees must have at least a 3.5 GPA and have achieved outstanding success in their sport. Impressively, six of Mines' nine first-teamers were also all-Americans at the 2025 NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, including national champion Ramsey-Rutledge and national runners-up Delate and Scomparin. The RMAC Academic Honor Roll recognizes student-athletes in each conference-sponsored sport who academically maintain at least a 3.30 cumulative grade-point average, have completed two consecutive semesters at their current institution, and have used a season of competition.