By: Nash Loibl, Advanced Graduate Assistant / Strategic Communications

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Black Hills State University guard Cam Lowe has been named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Academic Player of the Year, the conference announced Monday. Lowe leads a 10-member First Team Academic All-RMAC roster as selected by the league’s athletic communication directors.

Lowe claims another major award this year, adding to an outstanding 2025-26 campaign after being named RMAC Player of the Year earlier this month. Off the court, Lowe is a redshirt sophomore majoring in exercise science, boasting a 3.93 grade-point average. On the court, the Colorado Springs native has led Black Hills State throughout the season, guiding the Yellow Jackets to the RMAC Regular Season Championship and the RMAC Tournament title while continuing their run in the 2026 NCAA Division II Tournament. Lowe has started every game for the Yellow Jackets this season, averaging 17.4 points per game while shooting 48 percent from the field, 41 percent from three-point range, and 92 percent from the free-throw line. He is also averaging 6.2 rebounds per game and has dished out 90 assists this season. With the help of Lowe, Black Hills State has been nationally ranked throughout the 2025-26 season, with his squad currently ranked No. 10.

Lowe leads a 10-member First Team Academic All-RMAC group with seven of the conference’s 15 member institutions represented. Colorado State University Pueblo’s Sam Howery and Black Hills State’s Blake Volmer are the lone returners on the First-Team Academic All-RMAC roster, while Tyler Halligan (Western Colorado), Abel Hutchinson (South Dakota Mines), and Guido Wanschelbaum (South Dakota Mines) all made the jump from Honor Roll to First Team.

In addition, the RMAC recognized 48 student-athletes, including the 10 First Team Academic All-RMAC honorees, on its 2025-26 Men’s Basketball 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 65 NCAA Division II national champions and 54 national runners-up since 1992.  

2025-26 RMAC Men’s Basketball Academic Player of the Year

2025-26 First Team Academic All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
(as selected by RMAC athletics communications directors)
Student-Athlete	School	Class	Pos	GPA	Major	Hometown
Jonah El-Farra	Westminster	Sr.		3.58 3.82	Communications Trauma Responsive Leadership	Stevenson Ranc, Calif.
Braydon Jacob	Colorado School of Mines	R-Fr.	G	3.89	Mechanical Engineering	Castle Rock, Colo.
Tyler Halligan (HM)	Western Colorado	Jr.	F	3.97	Business Administration	Green, Ohio
Wyatt Helming	Adams State	Sr.	F	3.80	Business Administration	Lake Mills, Iowa
Abel Hutchinson (HM)	South Dakota Mines	R-Jr.	G	3.88	Civil Engineering	Bentonville, Ark.
Sam Howery (1)	CSU Pueblo	Sr.	G	3.99	Marketing	Colorado Springs, Colo.
Cam Lowe	Black Hills State	R-So.	G	3.93	Exercise Science	Colorado Springs, Colo.
Martin Poznanovic	South Dakota Mines	Gr.	F	4.00	Computer Science	Uzice, Serbia
Blake Volmer (1)	Black Hills State	Jr.	G	4.00	Business Administration	Winner, S.D.
Guido Wanschelbaum (HM)	South Dakota Mines	Jr.	F	3.96	Industrial Engineering	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Notes: (1) indicates the student-athlete was a 2024-25 First-Team Academic All-RMAC honoree. (HM) indicates the student-athlete was a 2024-25 Academic All-RMAC Honorable Mention.