COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Colorado Mesa University junior right-handed pitcher Gauge Lockhart is the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference’s Academic Player of the Year, leading a 16-member First Team Academic All-RMAC Team selected by the league’s athletic communications directors.

A Delta, Colorado product, Lockhart owns a 4.00 as a graduate student pursuing his MBA at Colorado Mesa. On the field, he owns an 8-1 record entering the NCAA Division II Baseball Championships. The First Team All-RMAC selection was the winning pitcher against Adams State in the RMAC Baseball Tournament, helping the Mavericks reach the championship round. Lockhart has 45 strikeouts in 50.2 innings pitched and has a 5.51 ERA.

Lockhart leads a 16-member First Team Academic All-RMAC unit with seven of the league’s nine baseball sponsoring institutions represented. The First-Team Academic All-RMAC group are all first-time selections.
In addition, the RMAC recognized 146 student-athletes, including First Team Academic All-RMAC honorees, on its 2025 Baseball 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

About the RMAC
The RMAC is a premier NCAA Division II conference located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, 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.

 

2025 First Team Academic All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference: Baseball
(as selected by RMAC athletics communications directors)
Student-Athlete	School	Class.	Pos	GPA	Major	Hometown
Gauge Lockhart	Colorado Mesa	Jr.	RHP	4.00	MBA	Delta, Colo.
Easton Amundson	MSU Denver	Sr.	IF	3.87	Sport Management	Nampa, Idaho
William Brassil	Colorado Christian	Gr.	LHP	3.87 3.91	Science Marketing MBA	Broomfield, Colo.
Clay Conn	Regis	Sr.	IF	3.86	Software Engineering	St. Charles, Ill.
Alex Dunagan	Colorado School of Mines	Jr.	UT	4.00	Mechanical Engineering	Cypress, Texas
Maxim Fullerton	Regis	Sr.	OF	3.67	Health and Exercise Science	Scottsdale, Ariz.
Canon Humphreys	Colorado School of Mines	Sr.	IF	3.61	Mechanical Engineering	Highlands Ranch, Colo.
Lubby Marrujo	New Mexico Highlands	Sr.	IF	3.79	Computer Science	Las Vegas, N.M.
Ryder Mancuso	UCCS	Jr.	RHP	3.82	Business	Palisade, Colo.
Wayne Moeck	Colorado School of Mines	RSr.	OF	3.97 4.00	B.S. Civil Engineering Structural Engineering (grad.)	San Diego, Calif.
Erubiel Ortiz	MSU Denver	Jr.	IF	3.83	Business Administration	Phoenix, Ariz.
Brooks Rasmussen	MSU Denver	RJr.	OF	4.00	Sport Management	Meridian, Ohio
Garrett Rede	Regis	Sr.	OF	3.97	Biology	Rio Rancho, N.M.
Gavin Schmeh	MSU Denver	Jr.	IF	3.50	Exercise Science	Hudson, Colo.
Kit Wigington	UCCS	RSr.	DH/OF	3.73	Mechanical Engineering	Colorado Springs, Colo.
Joshua Zotto	UCCS	So.	RHP	3.84	Business Administration	Grand Junction, Colo.
Notes: Gold background indicates RMAC Academic Player of the Year. Sixteen student-athletes were selected to the First Team Academic All-RMAC due to a tie in voting.