By: Cory Guinn, External Communications Assistant
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Regis University senior midfielder Jacobo Betancourt-Tovar is the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference’s 2026 Player of the Year leading the 2025 All-RMAC Men’s Soccer Teams announced Thursday.
Fellow Regis senior Abram Wilson was named the Defensive Player of the Year and sophomore teammate Zach Jennings earned Goalkeeper of the Year honors. Regis head coach Taylor Diem earned his first RMAC Coach of the Year honor, becoming the first Ranger coach to win that award. Edoardo Oliveri of Colorado Mesa and Lucas Miranda of South Dakota Mines shared the Co-Freshman of the Year accolade.
That group of six major award winners highlighted the 2025 All-RMAC Men’s Soccer Teams. The All-RMAC teams and awards are selected by the league’s 11 head coaches, who were not permitted to vote for their own players.
Betancourt-Tovar finished the regular season tied for the RMAC lead in goals (11) and game-winning goals (5), while also tallying an assist and 23 total points. The senior scored at least one goal in seven different contest, including a season-high four goals on Oct. 23 in a win over league foe Adams State on the road. Betancourt-Tovar is the fourth Ranger to earn the Offensive Player of the Year award and first since Rayan Carlson-Duu Toit in 2022.
Wilson was an integral parts of a Regis defense that allowed only 39 shots on goal during the season, fewest in the league. He logged 1,439 minutes of action over 16 regular-season matches, including 15 full 90s. Wilson also had two goals and two assists during the season, He is the second Regis student-athlete to be named the league’s Defensive Player of the Year, joining 2013 honoree and current head coach Taylor Diem.
Jennings, a native of Norman, Oklahoma, recorded six clean sheets and ranked second in the league with a .720 goals-against average and third with a .760 save percentage. He played 1,505 of the Rangers' 1,530 minutes and recorded three consecutive league shutouts against Colorado Christian, MSU Denver, and Colorado Mesa.
The 2026 Freshman of the Year honor is shared by Oliveri and Miranda. Oliveri finished the season with eight goals and one assists, including three game-winners for Colorado Mesa, while Miranda helped guide South Dakota Mines to the postseason with 10 goals, tied for second-most in the RMAC, and 21 total points in 18 games.
Diem earns the league’s Coach of the Year in his sixth season at Regis after leading the Rangers to the RMAC regular-season championship and the No. 1 seed in the RMAC Men’s Soccer Tournament with 8-1-1 RMAC mark. Regis is currently 11-3-3 overall and is 15th in the most recent United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division II poll. It is the Rangers' fourth RMAC championship in the regular season and their first since 2013.
Eight of the RMAC’s 11 men’s soccer sponsoring institutions are represented among the 20 selections to the league’s First and Second Team All-RMAC squads. Fort Lewis led the way with six selections, while Regis had five selections. CSU Pueblo and UCCS had four honorees each and South Dakota Mines had three.Colorado Mesa had a pair of All-RMAC team members as MSU Denver and Westminster each had selection to the team.
2025-26 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Men’s Soccer Award Winners
Player of the Year: Jacobo Betancourt-Tovar, Regis
Defensive Player of the Year: Abram Wilson, Regis
Goalkeeper of the Year: Zach Jennings, Regis
Co-Freshmen of the Year: Edoardo Oliveri, Colorado Mesa & Lucas Miranda, South Dakota Mines
Coach of the Year: Taylor Diem, Regis
2026 First Team All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference: Men’s Soccer
|
| Pos. |
Player |
School |
Yr. |
Hometown |
| F |
Nick Cenek (1) |
CSU Pueblo |
5th-Yr. |
Peoria, Illi. |
| F |
Yohann Fila |
UCCS |
So. |
Nantes, France |
| F |
Liam Corr |
Regis |
Sr. |
Coalisland, Ireland |
| F |
Nickolas North (2) |
South Dakota Mines |
Jr. |
Sioux Falls, S.D. |
| M |
Jacobo Betancourt-Tovar (2) |
Regis |
Sr. |
Frisco, Texas |
| M |
Richie Tabares Ochoa |
Colorado Mesa |
Jr. |
Phoeniz, Ariz. |
| M |
William Bretvik |
Fort Lewis |
Jr. |
Lindesnes, Norway |
| M |
Francisco Pinto (HM) |
Fort Lewis |
So. |
Felgueiras, Portugal |
| D |
Abram Wilson |
Regis |
Sr. |
St. Augustine, Fla. |
| D |
Lucas Taitt (HM) |
UCCS |
Jr. |
Shawnee, Kan. |
| D |
Noam Maggartou |
Fort Lewis |
Fr. |
Mulhouse, France |
| D |
Pedro Martinez Castro (2) |
CSU Pueblo |
So. |
Langreo, Spain |
| GK |
Zach Jennings (HM) |
Regis |
So. |
Norman, Okla. |
2026 Second Team All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference: Men’s Soccer
|
| Pos. |
Player |
School |
Yr. |
Hometown |
| F |
Juan Pablo Orozco Soto |
CSU Pueblo |
So. |
Monterrey, Mexico |
| F |
Cole Wearner |
UCCS |
So. |
Centennial, Colo. |
| F |
Edoardo Oliveri |
Colorado Mesa |
Fr. |
Genoa, Italy |
| F |
Joao Lutz |
CSU Pueblo |
Jr. |
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| M |
Owen Gallo |
Westminster |
Sr. |
Breckenridge, Colo. |
| M |
Raul Baptista Filipe (HM) |
Fort Lewis |
Jr. |
Santa Maria de Feira, Portugal |
| M |
Jan Grillitsch |
Regis |
Jr. |
Allerheiligen, Austria |
| M |
Ismael Reyes |
MSU Denver |
Jr. |
Oklahoma City, Okla. |
| D |
Shon West |
South Dakota Mines |
Jr. |
Pueblo, Colo. |
| D |
Alexandros Papakonstantinou |
Fort Lewis |
Jr. |
Larnaca, Cyprus |
| D |
Iver Høihjelle |
Fort Lewis |
Fr. |
Valderøya, Norway |
| D |
Rider Grow |
South Dakota Mines |
Sr. |
Colorado Springs, Colo. |
| GK |
Hugo Sjoberg (2) |
UCCS |
Sr. |
Kiel, Germany |
| Symbols in parentheses: (FoTY) was the Freshman of the Year in 2025-26; (1) was a First Team All-RMAC selection in 2025-26; (2) was a Second Team All-RMAC selection in 2025-26; (HM) was an Honorable Mention in 2025-26. |
2026 Honorable Mention All-RMAC: Men's Soccer
COLORADO CHRISTIAN: Benjamin Brown, Kylar Carr, Antonio Lugo, Bodie Curtis
COLORADO MESA: Jonah Elstad
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES: Pol Garcia Oliveras
CSU PUEBLO: Matty Parkes, Esteban Gonzalez
MSU DENVER: Jace Starling, Rhyson Johnston, Colin McKenna
REGIS: Francisco Ruiz
SOUTH DAKOTA MINES: Lucas Miranda
UCCS: Dalton Uehling, Eduardo Macias
WESTMINSTER: Gage Wood, Broc Underhill