By: Cody Bush, Associate Commissioner / Strategic Communications

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Colorado Mesa University senior Andrew Scoggin is the 2024-25 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Year, the league announced Thursday, along with the league’s other major award winners and All-RMAC roster.

Colorado Mesa junior Ryan Campbell is the league’s Diver of the Year, and Mavericks’ freshman Richard Schmiedefeld is the Freshman of the Year. Colorado School of Mines head coach Clarie McDaniel was selected by her peers as the league’s Coach of the Year.

The RMAC awards are selected and voted on by the league’s six men’s swimming and diving head coaches. Coaches are not permitted to vote for their players. The All-RMAC Teams are based on results at the RMAC Championships, with first and second-place finishers named First Team All-RMAC and third and fourth-place finishers earning Second Team All-RMAC recognition. Fifty-three individuals earned All-RMAC recognition for 144 total honors. Colorado Mesa led all teams with 15 individuals and 45 All-RMAC honors, Colorado School of Mines (12/32), Oklahoma Christian (10/29), Simon Fraser (11/32), and UT Permian Basin (5/6) also had student-athletes earn All-RMAC recognition.

Scoggin, a Greeley, Colorado native, won four events at the RMAC Championships and followed that by claiming All-American honors in six events at last weekend’s NCAA Division II Championships. The multi-event swimmer finished fifth in the 100-meter backstroke and eighth in the 200-meter backstroke in Indianapolis, earning First Team All-America honors in both events. Scoggin also was a part of the Mavericks 200 freestyle, 200 medley, and 400 medley relay teams that each finished in the Top 12 and earned Second Team All-America honors. In the RMAC Championship, he won the 100 backstroke event and was part of CMU’s conference championship 200 freestyle, 200 medley, and 400 medley relay teams.

Campbell, from Delmar, New York, was an RMAC Co-Diver of the Meet at the conference championship and then earned Second Team All-America honors at the NCAA Division II Championships. In the RMAC Championship, he won the 3-meter title and finished third in the 1-meter event. Campbell then finished 11th in the 3-meter event and 12th in the 1-meter event in Indianapolis.

Schmiedefeld, a Stuttgart, Germany product, won four events at the RMAC Championships and then claimed five All-American honors at the national championships. At the RMAC Championships, he won the 50 freestyle title and helped Colorado Mesa win the 200, 400, and 800 freestyle relays. Schmiedefeld also finished fourth in the 200 backstroke and seventh in the 100 backstroke and 200 freestyle at the conference meet. In Indianapolis, he was a member of the Maverick's eighth-place 800 freestyle unit, which earned first-team honors. He earned second-team honors in the 200 backstroke and as part of the 200 freestyle and 200 medley relays.

McDaniel claims her fourth RMAC Men’s Swimming & Diving Coach of the Year honor after leading the Colorado School of Mines men’s team to a third-place finish at the RMAC Championships, winning five medals and scoring 1156.5 points. In Indianapolis, Vladislav Kazakin claimed First Team All-America honors in the 500 and 1,000 freestyle events, and the Orediggers finished 25th in the team results.

2024-25 All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference: Men’s Swimming & Diving

Colorado Mesa
Max Ayres: (1st Team): 800 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 100 Breaststroke
Ryan Campbell: (1st Team): 3-meter Dive; (2nd Team): 1-meter Dive
Forrest Frazier: (1st Team): 100 Breaststroke, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay
Wyatt Hermanson: (1st Team): 1-meter Dive; (2nd Team): 3-meter Dive
Jax Juarros: (1st Team): 3-meter Dive, 1-meter Dive
Kuba Kiszczak: (1st Team): 200 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 50 Freestyle
Jameson McEnaney: (1st Team): 200 Medley Relay, 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 100 Freestyle
Jason McMechan: (2nd Team): 200 Breaststroke
Jackson Moe: (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle
Austin Patterson: (1st Team): 50 Freestyle, 100 Butterfly, 100 Freestyle, 400 Freestyle Relay
Luka Samsonov: (1st Team): 200 Backstroke; (2nd Team): 100 Backstroke
Richard Schmiedefeld: (1st Team): 50 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 200 Backstroke
Andrew Scoggin: (1st Team): 100 Backstroke, 200 Medley Relay, 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Medley Relay
Jacob Troescher: (1st Team): 1650 Freestyle
Dejan Urbanek: (1st Team): 100 Butterfly, 200 Butterfly, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay
 
Colorado School of Mines
Luca Burns: (1st Team): 200 Medley Relay
Kevin Burns: (1st Team): 200 Freestyle Relay
Luca Burns: (1st Team): 400 Medley Relay; (2nd Team): 100 Butterfly
Lucas Hoke: (2nd Team): 1,000 Freestyle, 1650 Freestyle
Joe Hutchinson: (1st Team): 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay
Sawyer Jones: (1st Team): 200 Medley Relay, 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
Vlad Kazakin: (1st Team): 1,000 Freestyle, 500 Freestyle, 400 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle, 800 Freestyle Relay
Michael Kietzman: (1st Team): 200 Medley Relay, 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 50 Freestyle, 800 Freestyle Relay
Ronan Lauinger: (2nd Team): 400 Individual Medley
Joseph Lev-Tov: (1st Team): 1,000 Freestyle; (2nd Team): 1650 Freestyle
Gavin Moore: (2nd Team): 800 Freestyle Relay
Jaron O'Grady: (2nd Team): 800 Freestyle Relay
Jakson Winn: (1st Team): 100 Backstroke, 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 100 Freestyle
 
Oklahoma Christian
Jarod Arroyo: (1st Team): 400 Individual Medley, 200 Butterfly, 200 Breaststroke; (2nd Team): 200 Individual Medley, 800 Freestyle Relay
Nathan Bell: (2nd Team): 1,000 Freestyle, 500 Freestyle
Gavin Gerwick: (2nd Team): 400 Medley Relay
Guilherme Martins: (2nd Team): 100 Butterfly, 200 Butterfly, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
Quinn Mauck: (2nd Team): 400 Freestyle Relay
Noah Rabb: (2nd Team): 200 Individual Medley
Lamar Rodov: (2nd Team): 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
Eli Rollen: (1st Team): 200 Individual Medley, 200 Backstroke; (2nd Team): 400 Individual Medley, 100 Backstroke, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay
Austin Schmidt: (2nd Team): 400 Freestyle Relay
Javan Titus: (2nd Team): 200 Medley Relay
 
Simon Fraser
Bryce Baker: (2nd Team): 400 Medley Relay
Thomas Bakica: (1st Team): 200 Breaststroke; (2nd Team): 100 Breaststroke
Lukas Buck: (2nd Team): 400 Medley Relay
Dylan Kormendy: (2nd Team): 200 Breaststroke, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay
Robert Van Luven: (2nd Team): 200 Medley Relay, 200 Freestyle Relay
Marcus Mak: (1st Team): 200 Individual Medley, 400 Individual Medley, 100 Breaststroke, 800 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 200 Backstroke, 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
Peter Morch: (1st Team): 200 Freestyle, 800 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 200 Butterfly, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
Owen Nicholson: (1st Team): 1650 Freestyle, 800 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 500 Freestyle
Alex Petriw: (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
Jordan Raume: (2nd Team): 200 Medley Relay, 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Medley Relay
Luka Tomic: (1st Team): 500 Freestyle, 800 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 400 Freestyle Relay
 
UT Permian Basin
Daniel Bednarski: (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle Relay
Colin Doyle: (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle Relay
Leo Eleftherakis: (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle Relay
Nathan Powell: (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle Relay
Brendan Twomey: (2nd Team): 3-meter Dive, 1-meter Dive