COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – University of Colorado Colorado Springs graduate student Donovan Mini is the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Academic Athlete of the Year, the conference announced Tuesday. Mini leads a 19-member First Team Academic All-RMAC Team and is one of 201 student-athletes named to the RMAC Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Academic Honor Roll.

Mini, an Atlanta, Georgia product, has a 4.00 grade-point average while pursuing a master’s degree in biology at UCCS. He was a member of the Mountain Lions’ RMAC champion 4x100-meter relay team, which also qualified for the NCAA Division II National Championships and finished eighth in the 100- and 200-meter events at the RMAC Outdoor Championships.

The 19-member First Team Academic All-RMAC group saw Colorado School of Mines redshirt senior Everett Delate make his third consecutive appearance on the top academic unit. Also making repeat appearances were Colorado School of Mines redshirt seniors Logan Bocovich and Loic Scomparin, UCCS junior Kyle Demos, and Colorado Christian senior Matthew Storer.

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 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 sponsors championships 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.
 

First Team Academic All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
(as selected by RMAC athletics communications directors)
Student-Athlete	School	Class	GPA	Major	Hometown
Donovan Mini	UCCS	Gr.	4.00	M.S. Biology	Atlanta, Ga.
Braden Anderson	Black Hills State	Jr.	3.85	Business Administration	Haxtun, Colo.
Aidan Bennett	Colorado School of Mines	Jr.	3.97	Mechanical Engineering	Clemente, Calif.
Logan Bocovich (24)	Colorado School of Mines	RSr.	3.70 3.93	B.S. Chemistry M.S. Geochemistry	Monument, Colo.
Chase Brown	Colorado Mesa	RSo.	4.00	Civil Engineering	Bloomingdale, Mich.
Everett Delate (3x/24-23)	Colorado School of Mines	RSr.	3.88 3.80	B.S. Economics M.S. Mineral & Energy Economics	Centennial, Colo.
Kyle Demos (24)	UCCS	Jr.	3.99	Business	Colorado Springs, Colo.
Parker Gonser	Chadron State	RSr.	4.00 3.67	B.A. Sport Management MBA (grad)	Windsor, Colo.
Christopher Jennings	Chadron State	Sr.	3.89	Biology	O’Neill, Neb.
Sean Pecenka	MSU Denver	Jr.	4.00	Mechanical Engineering Technology	Wheat Ridge, Colo.
Loic Scomparin (23)	Colorado School of Mines	RSr.	3.95 3.85	B.S. Environmental Engineering M.S. Advanced Energy Systems & Hydrology	Dublin, Calif.
Seth Sherwood	Colorado Mesa	RSo.	3.92	Business Administration	Pueblo, Colo.
Izaak Siefken	Colorado Mesa	RJr.	3.68	Mechanical Engineering	Broomfield, Colo.
Tyrell Smith	CSU Pueblo	Sr.	3.86	MBA	Colorado Springs, Colo.
Matthew  Storer (24)	Colorado Christian	Sr.	3.71 4.00	B.A. Business MBA (grad)	Colorado Springs, Colo.
Jonathan Sweepe	CSU Pueblo	So.	3.83	Construction Management	Peoria, Ariz.
Tim Thompson	Colorado School of Mines	Jr.	3.67	Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering	Fort Collins, Colo.
Creighton Trembly	Chadron State	RSr.	3.90	History	Longmont, Colo.
Notes: Gold background indicates RMAC Academic Player of the Year. Previous First Team Academic All-RMAC Honors:  Numbers in parentheses indicate years the student-athlete was previously named First Team Academic All-RMAC. 3x – Third time the student-athlete has received First Team academic All-RMAC honors.