UCCS’s Ross leaps to the top of the 2019-20 Indoor #RMACtf All-Academic Team
RMAC Media, Ryan Cruz
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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO— Will Ross of University of Colorado – Colorado Springs was named the 2019-20 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) Indoor Track & Field Academic Athlete of the Year.
Ross, along with the other First Team All-Academic team members, were voted on by the conference’s sports information directors. To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must carry a 3.30 cumulative grade point average and must have been an active student at the institution for at least two consecutive semesters or three consecutive quarters.
All student-athletes who meet those requirements, but were not voted First Team, automatically qualify for Honor Roll.
Ross, a senior from Colorado Springs, Colorado is majoring in Mechanical Engineering and boasts a 3.89 grade-point average (GPA). Ross claimed both Indoor RMAC championship titles in the long jump and triple jump in his very own Mountain Lion Fieldhouse. He qualified for the Division II National Championship in both of those events with the 9
th best mark in LJ & 4
th best mark in the TJ.
Colorado School of Mines had the most representatives on the All-Academic list with 13 total and five being named to first team. In all, a total of 126 student-athletes received All-Academic honors.
RMAC All-Academic First Team
Alec Choury Sr. CSUP Westminster, Colo. 3.90 Sociology & Criminology
Grant Colligan GS. CSM Holt, Mich. 3.66 Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Dylan Day Sr. CSUP Fountain, Colo. 3.91 Mathematics
Deshon Elcock Sr. UCCS Longmont, Colo. 3.42 Mechanical Engineering
Marcelo Laguera R-Sr. CSUP Chihuahua, Mexico. 3.53 Civil Engineering
Jake Mitchem Jr. CSM Broomfield, Colo. 3.89 Electrical Engineering
Will Ross* Sr. UCCS Colorado Springs, Colo. 3.89 Mechanical Engineering
Patrick Scoggins Sr. CSUP Rangely, Colo. 4.00 Undeclared
Trevor Smith Jr. Colorado Mesa Golden, Colo. 4.00 Environmental Science
Taylor Stack Jr. Western Colorado Salida, Colo. 3.76 Biology/Chemistry
* - Academic Athlete of the Year
- Student-Athletes are listed in alphabetical order.