By: Nash Loibl, Advanced Graduate Assistant / Strategic Communications

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Colorado Mesa University senior Cassidy Phelan is the 2024-25 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women’s Golf Academic Athlete of the Year, the conference announced Thursday. The 2024-25 First Team Academic All-RMAC Women’s Golf Team and Honor Roll selections were announced with Phelan’s award.

Phelan, a native of Henderson, Nevada, earns her first Academic Athlete of the Year award with a 4.0 grade-point average in Business Administration. Previously, Phelan was named First Team Academic All-RMAC in both the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons and received the Summit Award nod in 2023-24.

On the course, Phelan was a standout performer, collecting a Second Team All-RMAC roster spot this season. On the year, Phelan was one of the best golfers on her Colorado Mesa squad, finishing the season with a Top 400 national rank and a Top 150 regional rank. The senior competed in 10 tournaments for the Mavericks, recording two top-ten finishes. Her best outing of the season was at the Maverick Challenge on April 12-13, where she finished second in a field of 24. She capped her season with a 23rd-place finish at the 2025 RMAC Women’s Golf Championship, firmly putting her amongst the league’s best golfers.

Phelan leads an eight-member First Team Academic All-RMAC roster, with five of the league’s ten women’s golf sponsoring institutions represented. Colorado State University Pueblo’s Freya Constable joins Phelan as the only repeat honoree.

In addition, the RMAC recognized 30 student-athletes, including the ten Academic All-RMAC honorees, on its 2024-25 Women’s Golf 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, 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.  

2025 First Team Academic All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
(as selected by RMAC athletics communications directors)
Student-Athlete	School	Class.	GPA	Major	Hometown
Cassidy Phelan (1)	Colorado Mesa	Sr.	4.00	Business Administration	Henderson, Nev.
Freya Constable (2)	CSU Pueblo	Jr.	3.94	Mathematics	Edinburgh, Scotland
Mary Beth Doss	Colorado Christian	Gr.	3.52 4.00	Health Sciences Leadership-Graduate Certificate	Litchfield Park, Ariz.
Lisa Ekberg	CSU Pueblo	So.	3.98	Psychology	Kungsbacka, Sweden
Aubree Heinsma	Chadron State	Jr.	4.00	Physical Sciences	Windsor, Colo.
Vivianna Holguin	Fort Lewis	Sr.	3.97	Exercise Physiology	Gold Canyon, Ariz.
Kylee Hughes	Colorado Christian	Jr.	3.97	Business	Eagle, Colo.
Anna Mettler	Colorado Christian	Jr.	4.00	Nursing	Colorado Springs, Colo.
Notes: Gold background indicates RMAC Academic Player of the Year. A (1) indicates the student-athlete is a three-time First-Team Academic All-RMAC selection. A (2) indicates the student-athlete is a two-time First Team Academic All-RMAC selection.