COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Colorado School of Mines senior forward Reese McDermott repeats as the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women’s Soccer Academic Player of the Year, leading a 13-member First Team Academic All-RMAC Team as selected by the league’s athletic communications directors.

McDermott’s 2024 Academic Player of the Year honor followed her receipt of the 2023 honor. The Houston, Texas native brought a 3.94 GPA as a quantitative biosciences and engineering major into the season.  She may end her career as one of the league’s most decorated players, entering the season as a three-time First Team All-RMAC selection, the 2021 RMAC Freshman of the Year, the 2022 RMAC Tournament MVP, a two-time RMAC All-Tournament pick, first team all-region each of her three seasons, and a two-time United Soccer Coaches All-American. This season, she has led the RMAC in goals (16), game-winning goals (6), and points (37) while pacing the Orediggers to the 2024 regular season title.

McDermott leads a 13-member First Team Academic All-RMAC group with eight of the league’s 13 women’s soccer-sponsoring institutions represented. Regis junior forward Natalie Bunch joined McDermott as a returning First Team Academic All-RMAC selection.
 
In addition, the RMAC recognized 165 student-athletes, including the 13 Academic All-RMAC honorees, on its 2024 Women’s Soccer Academic Honor Roll.
The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference 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.

Each institution’s athletic communications directors nominate student-athletes who academically maintain at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average, along with the other criteria for the Academic Honor Roll, for recognition on the First Team Academic All-RMAC in each sport. The league’s athletic communications directors for that sport vote to compose the First Team Academic All-RMAC and select the Academic Player of the Year. They are not permitted to vote for their own student-athletes

2024 First Team Academic All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
(as selected by RMAC athletics communications directors)
Student-Athlete	School	Class	Pos	GPA	Major	Hometown
Natalie Bunch (1)	Regis	Jr.	F	3.85	Elementary Education	Moses Lake, Wash.
Fie Steenberg	UCCS	Sr.	M	3.87	International Business	Odense, Denmark
Abby Fotheringham	Colorado Mesa	Sr.	M	4.00	Business Administration	Layton, Utah
Madeline Gardner	Regis	So.	F	4.00	Computer Science	Bend, Ore.
Mira Houck	Colorado Mesa	RSr.	M	4.00	Business Administration	Thronton, Colo.
Allie Lundgren	Colorado School of Mines	Jr.	GK	3.92	Metallurgical & Materials Engineering	Coto de Caza, Calif.
Kaitlyn Manalili	Colorado School of Mines	Jr.	M	3.97	Geophysical Engineering	Shoreline, Wash.
Reese McDermott (1)	Colorado School of Mines	Sr.	F	3.94	Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering	Houston, Texas
Justine  Moreau	Colorado Christian	Jr.	D	3.96	Business	Torrance, Calif.
Natsuki Murakami	Western Colorado	Jr.	M	3.90	Exercise & Sports Sciences	Oita, Japan
Brooke Streeter	Westminster	Sr.	M	4.00	Accounting	Montesano, Wash.
Taylynn Levi	UCCS	So.	M	4.00	Engineering	Colorado Springs, Colo.
Ainsley Wilson	Black Hills State	Jr.	D	4.00	Biology & Chemistry	Loveland, Colo.
Notes: (1) indicates the student-athlete was a 2023 First-Team Academic All-RMAC honoree.

 
About the RMAC
The RMAC is a premier NCAA Division II conference located in Colorado Springs, Colo., with 15 member institutions. The RMAC sponsors 22 varsity NCAA sports and has produced 65 NCAA Division II national champions and 54 national runners-up since 1992.