Academic All-Conference List
 
COLORADO SPRINGS – The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference announced it All-Academic First Team and Academic Honor Roll Wednesday for women's soccer and saw Colorado School of Mines center back Natalie Rouse named Academic Player of the Year.
 
Rouse becomes the fourth player in program history to be named the top scholar-athlete in the league, joining Reese McDermott (2023, 2024), Jennifer Kendall (2017) and Kayla (Mitchell) Jacobsen (2009).
 
This year's RMAC Defensive Player of the Year as well and now a three-time recipient of that award, Rouse is in her second year of graduate school pursuing a Master's degree in Operations Research In Nuclear Engineering with a 3.95 GPA. She previously earned her Bachelor's in Applied Mathematics & Statistics in May of 2025 and posted a GPA of 3.98. Last season, she was named to the RMAC's All-Academic First Team and is also a two-time College Sports Communicators Academic All-America® selection. Still one of the elite two-way defenders in the RMAC, Rouse started all 21 matches this season for 1,854 minutes and scored a career-high seven goals for 14 points with four game-winning scores. She scored in four consecutive matches to end the regular season, highlighted by her first multi-goal performance in a Mines uniform in the finale against CSU Pueblo. She's also anchored a defense this season that has turned in five shutouts, including one in the RMAC semifinals against UCCS, and allowed less than one goal and just 10 shots per match to opposing teams.
 
A further 10 Orediggers were named to the league's Academic Honor Roll for the academic accomplishments as Carly Walter, Izzy Sontheimer, Lindsay Jeans, Finley Ewald, Ariana Ahumada, Lauren Koehler, Taylor Johnson-Balding, Sam Forde, Caelan DeBolt and Natalie Mezarina were recognized.
 
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