Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference

2023 RMAC Volleyball All-Academic Release

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Rylee Hladky is the 2023 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Volleyball Academic Player of the Year, the league announced Wednesday alongside its First Team All-Academic roster and honor roll list. The RMAC Volleyball All-Academic team is nominated and voted on by the league’s 15 sports information directors. Sports information directors are not permitted to vote for their own student-athletes.
 
Hladky claims the league’s Academic Player of the Year honor after a stellar senior campaign in which she has boosted the Roadrunners to the RMAC regular-season title for the third consecutive season. After a 13-1 run through conference play, Hladky and the Roadrunners earned the right to host the 2023 RMAC Volleyball Tournament, where they earned a berth in the title game. Despite a narrow 3-2 loss to No. 11 Regis in the tournament championship, Hladky registered 18 kills, 12 digs, three blocks and two assists for her fifth double-double of the year. The Gillette, Wyo., native averages 3.0 kills per set this season and leads her MSU Denver squad to the NCAA Division II South Central Championship as the No. 3 seed. She has racked up 186 kills this season, along with 28 blocks and 13 service aces for 215.5 points.
 
The Academic Player of the Year honor is just the latest on a long list of accolades for Hladky, who has also been named the RMAC Volleyball Player of the Year twice throughout her time as a Roadrunner. She will now lead No. 8 MSU Denver into the NCAA Volleyball Championship for the fourth time in her illustrious career. A two-time first-team All-American, Hladky has climbed the ranks within the MSU Denver program and is just the seventh player in MSU Denver history to eclipse 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs in a career.
 
Hladky has played for the Roadrunners since the 2019 season and in that time she has earned two Academic All-America honors, four RMAC First Team All-Conference honors as well as the 2021 RMAC Academic Player of the Year and Summit Award accolades. The senior currently holds a 3.88 grade-point average as a mechanical engineering major.
 
Among the eight institutions represented among the RMAC All-Academic First Team, Regis leads the way with four honorees. MSU Denver checks in next with a trio of selections, followed by Colorado Mesa with two student-athletes. Chadron State, Colorado School of Mines, Fort Lewis, South Dakota Mines and University of Colorado Colorado Springs round out the first-team roster with one honoree apiece. Colorado Mesa’s Sabrina VanDeList, Colorado School of Mines’ Meghan Slaninka, MSU Denver’s Abbie McCrimmon and Regis’ Nadine Burbrink each hold flawless 4.0 GPAs in their respective majors.