Mines’ Fuehne, Baker Claim RMAC XC Academic Runners of the Year
2021 RMAC Men’s Cross Country All-Academic Full Release
2021 RMAC Women’s Cross Country All-Academic Full Release
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Colorado School of Mines’ Duncan Fuehne and Zoe Baker are the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Academic Runners of the Year, respectively, the league announced Thursday. In addition to the individual honors, the RMAC also announced the 2021 Men’s and Women’s Cross Country First Team Academic All-Conference rosters. The RMAC Academic All-Conference teams are voted on by sports information directors from the league’s 15 institutions.
Fuehne is the Men’s Cross Country Academic Runner of the Year after claiming an 11th-place finish at the 2021 RMAC Cross Country Championship earlier this season. He crossed the finish line with a time of 25:19.6 in the 8k race, earning first team all-conference distinctions and pushing the Orediggers to their third-consecutive conference title in the process. Fuehne has secured a 3.97 grade-point average (GPA) as an engineering physics major at Colorado School of Mines.
Baker locks up her second-consecutive RMAC Women’s Cross Country Academic Runner of the Year honor for the Orediggers after earning first team all-conference honors at the 2021 RMAC Championship earlier this month. She registered a fourth-place individual finish at the conference meet, crossing the finish line with a time of 21:56.2 in the 6k race. Baker, a senior, holds a perfect 4.0 GPA for the Orediggers as a computer science major.
There were two 4.0 GPAs among the men’s first team roster with CSU Pueblo’s Patrick Scoggins and Western Colorado’s Cade Michael. Among the women’s team, Mines’ Baker, Regis’ Mikaela Taylor, South Dakota Mines’ Margaret Thompson, UCCS’ Riley McGrath and Westminster’s Saydi Anderson each earned 4.0 GPAs.
Of the 14 honorees on the men’s first team, seven RMAC institutions are represented, while nine schools are represented on the women’s side.
In addition to the announcement of the first-team roster, the RMAC Honorable Mention list was also released.
RMAC Men’s Academic Runner of the Year: Duncan Fuehne, Colorado School of Mines
RMAC Women’s Academic Runner of the Year: Zoe Baker, Colorado School of Mines
2021 RMAC Men’s Cross Country First Team Academic All-Conference
| Name |
School |
Cl. |
GPA |
Major |
| Ryder Searle |
Colorado Christian |
Sr. |
3.92 |
Masters in Education |
| Triston Charles |
Colorado Mesa |
R-Fr. |
3.89 |
Pre-Criminal Justice |
| Tony Torres |
Colorado Mesa |
R-Jr. |
3.54 |
Mechanical Engineering |
| Christ Cathcart |
Colorado School of Mines |
Gr. |
3.58 |
Computer Science |
| Duncan Fuehne* |
Colorado School of Mines |
R-So. |
3.97 |
Engineering Physics |
| Dylan Ko |
Colorado School of Mines |
Gr. |
3.75 |
Computer Science |
| Jake Mitchem |
Colorado School of Mines |
Gr. |
3.75 |
Electrical Engineering |
| Kyle Moran |
Colorado School of Mines |
Gr. |
3.62 |
Computer Science |
| Dillon Powell |
Colorado School of Mines |
R-So. |
3.86 |
Chemical Engineering |
| Patrick Scoggins |
CSU Pueblo |
Jr. |
4.0 |
Exercise Science |
| Andrew Amor |
New Mexico Highlands |
So. |
3.95 |
Human Performance |
| Will Young |
UCCS |
So. |
3.95 |
Mathematics |
| Cade Michael |
Western Colorado |
Sr. |
4.0 |
Economics |
| Michael Grabowski |
Western Colorado |
Gr. |
3.92 |
Accounting |
* 2021 RMAC Men’s Cross Country Academic Runner of the Year
2021 RMAC Women’s Cross Country First Team Academic All-Conference
| Name |
School |
Cl. |
GPA |
Major |
| Sylvia Brown |
Black Hills State |
Fr. |
3.93 |
Exercise Science |
| Zoe Baker* |
Colorado School of Mines |
Sr. |
4.0 |
Computer Science/Applied Mathematics |
| Heather Keniry |
Colorado School of Mines |
R-Sr. |
3.52 |
Mechanical Engineering |
| Yasmine Hernandez |
CSU Pueblo |
Jr. |
3.71 |
Nursing Manager & Leader |
| Vanessa Kort |
MSU Denver |
Jr. |
3.91 |
Biology |
| Erin Norton |
MSU Denver |
Gr. |
3.72 |
Geography |
| Mikaela Taylor |
Regis |
Jr. |
4.0 |
Religious Studies |
| Margaret Thompson |
South Dakota Mines |
Jr. |
4.0 |
Mechanical Engineering |
| Layla Almasri |
UCCS |
Jr. |
3.63 |
Health Care Science |
| Hannah Ellis |
UCCS |
Jr. |
3.88 |
Nursing |
| Riley McGrath |
UCCS |
So. |
4.0 |
Business |
| Katie Doucette |
Western Colorado |
Jr. |
3.48 |
Psychology |
| MaKenna Knez |
Western Colorado |
So. |
3.98 |
Elementary Education |
| Saydi Anderson |
Westminster |
Sr. |
4.0 |
English/Spanish Latin-American Studies |
* 2021 RMAC Women’s Cross Country Academic Runner of the Year