By: Cody Bush, Associate Commissioner / Strategic Communications

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Colorado State University Pueblo sophomore Helen Braybrook and Colorado School of Mines senior Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge are the 2024-25 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women's Track Athletes of the Year, the league announced Thursday, along with the league’s other major award winners and All-RMAC roster.

Colorado School of Mines junior Avery Wright is the league’s Field Athlete of the Year, while Rujeko Munetsi of New Mexico Highlands University is the RMAC Freshman of the Year. Colorado School of Mines head coach Matt Sparks was selected by his peers as the league’s Coach of the Year award winner.

The RMAC awards are selected and voted on by the league’s 15 women’s indoor track & field 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-, second-, and third-place finishers named First Team All-RMAC and fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-place finishers earning Second Team All-RMAC recognition. Additionally, members of the first-place relay teams earned First Team All-RMAC honors, while members of the second-place relay teams received Second Team All-RMAC recognition.

Eighty-two individuals earned All-RMAC recognition, garnering a total of 106 honors. UCCS led all teams with 16 individuals earning 20 All-RMAC honors. Other schools with All-RMAC honorees included Adams State (10 individuals, 12 honors), Black Hills State (1/1), Colorado Christian (1/1), Colorado School of Mines (14/18), Colorado Mesa (13/15), CSU Pueblo (8/15), Fort Lewis (1/1), MSU Denver (3/3), New Mexico Highlands (7/11), South Dakota Mines (1/1), and Western Colorado (7/8).

Braybrook, a native of Frieston, England, won the 800-meter dash and was a member of CSU Pueblo’s first-place distance medley relay team and its second-place 4x400 relay team at the RMAC Indoor Track & Field Championships in February. She went on to become the NCAA Division II National Champion in the 800-meter event with a time of 2:04.72, while the ThunderWolves distance medley relay team won the national title in 11:14.45 with Braybrook running the anchor leg.

Ramsey-Rutledge, a product of Hutchinson, Kansas, finished second in the 5,000-meter run at the RMAC Championships. However, she bounced back to become the NCAA Division II National Champion in that event with a time of 16:03.45, defeating the field by more than seven seconds.

Wright, of Cortez, Colorado, won the Women’s Pentathlon while also finishing second in the 60-meter hurdles and running the final leg of the Orediggers’ third-place 4x400 relay team at the RMAC Championships.

Munetsi, from  Harare, Zimbabwe, made a splash in her debut season at the RMAC Championships. She finished fourth in the 200-meter dash, fifth in the 60-meter dash, and was the lead leg of the Cowgirls’ 4x400 relay team, which finished fifth at the championships. She went on to appear in the 60-meter preliminaries at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships as one of only two freshmen to compete in the event in Indianapolis.

In his 12th season in Golden, Colorado, Sparks claims his second RMAC Women’s Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year honor after leading the Orediggers to the team title at the RMAC Indoor Track & Field Championship – their third consecutive RMAC women’s team indoor title.

2024-25 All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference: Women’s Indoor Track & Field

Adams State
Victoria Amiadamen, (1st Team) 4x400 Relay
Isila Apkup, (1st Team) 4x400 Relay
Elena Carey, (2nd Team) Distance Medley Relay
Sarah Cohen, (1st Team) 4x400 Relay
Fiona Hawkins, (2nd Team) Distance Medley Relay
Lieke Hoogsteen, (1st Team) 800-meter run, Distance Medley Relay
Clara Keddy, (2nd Team) Mile Run
Ava O'Connor, (1st Team) Mile Run
Alese Sartain, (1st Team) 4x400 Relay,, Distance Medley Relay
Emily Schoellkopf, (2nd Team) 3000-meter run
 
Black Hills State
Erin Weibel, (2nd Team) Pole Vault
 
Colorado Christian
Shannon King, (1st Team) Mile Run
 
Colorado School of Mines
Margaux Basart, (2nd Team) 5000-meter run
Allison Comer, (2nd Team) 400-meter dash,, 60-meter hurdles
Jennifer Jarnagin, (1st Team) Weight Throw
Claire Kintzley, (1st Team) Triple Jump
Ava Kowalski, (1st Team) Pole Vault
Emily LaMena, (1st Team) 3000-meter run,, 5000-meter run
Callen Nash, (2nd Team) 5000-meter run
Hayley Rayburn, (1st Team) Pole Vault
Kitt Rupar, (1st Team) Shot Put
Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge, (1st Team) 5000-meter run
Grace Strongman, (2nd Team) Mile Run
Lisa Sutherland, (1st Team) Pentathlon
Dale Thompson, (1st Team) Pole Vault
Avery Wright, (1st Team) 60-meter hurdles, Pentathlon, (2nd Team) Shot Put
 
Colorado Mesa
Jordan Burnett, (1st Team) 400-meter dash
Kaelea Gibson, (2nd Team) High Jump
Augustine Hancock, (2nd Team) Weight Throw
Gaby Horton, (1st Team) 200-meter dash, 60-meter dash
Addy Kirkpatrick, (2nd Team) Long Jump
Sophia Lindauer, (2nd Team) Pentathlon
Hope Matteson, (2nd Team) High Jump, Pentathlon
Brooke Miller, (2nd Team) 800-meter run
Atahlia Mills, (2nd Team) 60-meter hurdles
Christina Palmer, (2nd Team) Shot Put
Kaitlyn Pearson, (2nd Team) Pentathlon
Katie Thomson, (1st Team) Pentathlon
Kirstin Williams, (2nd Team) 5000-meter run
 
CSU Pueblo  
Helen Braybrook, (1st Team) 800-meter run, Distance Medley Relay, 4x400 Relay
Gabrielle Dunich, (1st Team) Distance Medley Relay, 4x400 Relay
Jadyn Herron, (1st Team) 800-meter run, Distance Medley Relay, 4x400 Relay
Katherine Higgins, (1st Team) Shot Put, Weight Throw
Leah Keisler, (1st Team) Distance Medley Relay, 4x400 Relay
Olivia Mikaelian, (1st Team) Weight Throw
Margot Thomas, (2nd Team) 3000-meter run
Febe Wessels, (1st Team) Shot Put
 
Fort Lewis
Hannah Hartwell, (1st Team) 3000-meter run
 
MSU Denver
Maya Ries, (1st Team) 60-meter hurdles
Naleia Sowell, (1st Team) 400-meter dash
Taylor Weber, (2nd Team) Triple Jump
 
New Mexico Highlands
Ashley Barrett, (1st Team) 200-meter dash, 60-meter dash
Rojrika Cambell, (1st Team) High Jump, Triple Jump
Patreece Clarke, (1st Team) 60-meter hurdles
Amoya Jameison, (1st Team) 400-meter dash
Rujeko Munetsi, (2nd Team) 200-meter dash, 60-meter dash
Chisom Obioha, (1st Team) Long Jump
Kacian Powell, (2nd Team) 200-meter dash, 60-meter dash
 
South Dakota Mines
Adisyn Schenck, (2nd Team) Shot Put
 
UCCS
Sophia Bowser, (2nd Team) Triple Jump
Paige Cordero, (1st Team) Long Jump
Phia Edwards, (2nd Team) Pole Vault
Victoria Farinas, (1st Team) 200-meter dash, 60-meter dash
Anna Fauske, (1st Team) 3000-meter run, 5000-meter run
Kate Hedlund, (1st Team) Mile Run, (2nd Team) 800-meter run
Chelsea Howard, (2nd Team) Long Jump
Savannah Jorgens, (1st Team) Weight Throw
Danaya Kinnard, (1st Team) Long Jump
Victoria Malaki, (2nd Team) Weight Throw
Madissyn Moore, (2nd Team) Long Jump
Brooke Peterson, (1st Team) Pole Vault
Rachel Richtman, (2nd Team) Mile Run
Dallis Robinson, (1st Team) High Jump
Payton Rodgers, (2nd Team) Triple Jump
Krissie Sanders, (2nd Team) 400-meter dash, 60-meter hurdles
 
Western Colorado
Eireann Donohoe, (1st Team) Triple Jump
Allison Beasley, (2nd Team) 3000-meter run
Samantha Bretz, (1st Team) High Jump
Myia Dantzler, (2nd Team) 200-meter dash, 60-meter dash
Nykole Meshew, (1st Team) High Jump
Kelia Portis, (2nd Team) 400-meter dash
Peyton Weiss, (2nd Team) 800-meter run