GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Fort Lewis’ Dannon Yake is the 2025 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women’s Soccer Summit Award winner, the conference announced Wednesday ahead of the semifinal round of the 2025 RMAC Women’s Soccer Championship.

Yake, a senior from Grand Junction, earned the academic award with a perfect 4.00 grade-point average in exercise physiology while completing 111 credit hours. On the field, she anchors one of the conference’s top defenses, allowing just 0.33 goals per game. Yake has started 17 matches for the Skyhawks, helping guide the team to an impressive 11-4-3 overall record and a 7-2-2 mark in conference play. Thanks in large part to her leadership and consistency, Fort Lewis entered the RMAC Women’s Soccer Championship as the No. 4 seed and advanced to the semifinal round.

The RMAC’s Summit Award is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA competing at the finals site of their respective sport’s championship. Summit Award winners must compete in 20 percent of available competitions throughout the current season. All GPAs are based on a straight-grading scale to ensure consistency among nominees. All ties are broken by the total number of credit hours completed through the most recently concluded semester.

To be eligible for the award, student-athletes must be sophomores or above and have participated in their sport at their institution for at least two years. They must also be active members of their teams and travel to and compete at the RMAC championship event.
 
About the RMAC
The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, headquartered in Colorado Springs, is a premier NCAA Division II conference with 15 institutions located in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Utah. The RMAC currently competes in 22 NCAA Division II sports and has earned 67 national championships and 53 national runners-up since 1992. Founded in 1909, the RMAC is the most historic athletic conference in the western United States and Division II.

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