By: Nash Loibl, Advanced Graduate Assistant / Strategic Communications

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Colorado Mesa setter Sabrina VanDeList is the 2024 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Volleyball Academic Player of the Year, the league announced Tuesday. Announced with VanDeList’s latest honor is the 2024 RMAC Volleyball First Team Academic All-RMAC Team and Academic Honor Roll selections.

VanDeList, hailing from Severance, Colorado, is a leader on and off the court for the Mavericks, as she earned the league’s Summit Award for the third consecutive season and her second Setter of the Year award. VanDeList led the conference in assists this season with 1,174 (11.86) and ranked second in service aces (42). Behind VanDeList, Colorado Mesa earned the No. 2 overall seed in the 2024 RMAC Tournament and advanced to the 2024 NCAA DII Women’s Volleyball Championship.

VanDeList leads a 14-member First Team Academic All-RMAC group with seven of the league’s 15 institutions represented. Five selections, including VanDeList, are repeat honorees from last season: Colorado Mesa senior Sydney Leffler, Metropolitan State University of Denver senior Abbie McCrimmon, Regis senior Amelia Davis, and South Dakota Mines graduate student Kiley Metzger.
In addition, the RMAC recognized 99 student-athletes, including the 14 Academic All-RMAC honorees, on its 2024 Volleyball 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
Amelia Davis (1)	Regis	Sr.	MB	3.96	Elementary Education	Denver, Colo.
Sabrina VanDeLIst (1)	Colorado Mesa	RSr.	S	4.00	Elementary Education	Severance, Colo.
Sierra Hunt	Colorado Mesa	RJr.	RS	3.95	Accounting	Aurora, Colo.
Sydney Leffler (1)	Colorado Mesa	Sr.	OH	3.69	Exercise Science	Eaton, Colo.
Nicole Martin	Colorado Mesa	So.	MH	4.00	Psychology	Colorado Springs, Colo.
Abbie McCrimmon (1)	MSU Denver	Sr.	DS/L	4.00	Management	Loveland, Colo.
Kendyl Kirkwood	Chadron State	Sr.	S	4.00	Elementary Education	Fleming, Colo.
Alessandra Meoni	South Dakota Mines	Sr.	RS	3.94	Biomedical Engineering	Padova, Italy
Kiley Metzger (1)	South Dakota Mines	Gr.	S	3.93	M.S. Engineering Management	Rock Rapids, Iowa
Kryssa Moerman	MSU Denver	So.	MB	4.00	Civil Engineering	Colorado Springs, Colo.
Sadie Scoville	CSU Pueblo	Jr.	OH	3.79	Creative Media	Pleasant Grove, Utah
Bre Skala	Regis	Sr.	L	3.96	Business Administration	Omaha, Neb.
Halle Theis	Regis	Gr.	OH	3.96	Elementary Education	Geneva, Neb.
Angela Youngs	Adams State	RSr.	OH	4.00	Kinesiology	Gillette, Wyo.
Notes: A (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 67 NCAA Division II national champions and 54 national runners-up since 1992.