By: Nash Loibl, Advanced Graduate Assistant / Strategic Communications

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – For the third consecutive year, Colorado Mesa University senior forward Olivia Reed Thyne is the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Academic Player of the Year and leads a 10-member First Team Academic All-RMAC Team as selected by the league’s athletic communication directors.

Reed Thyne entered the spring semester with a 3.92 grade-point average as a kinesiology major at Colorado Mesa. Her third Academic Player of the Year honor caps another impressive season for the Windsor, Colorado, product, who also was named the league’s Player of the Year for a third consecutive season by the league’s head coaches. Reed Thyne is also a four-time First Team All-RMAC selection and a three-time First Team Academic All-RMAC honoree.

The RMAC’s career leader in scoring and rebounding, Reed Thyne, enters the NCAA tournament ranked fifth among Division II scorers (22.1 points per game) and ninth in rebounding (11.4 points per game). Reed Thyne again led the league in field-goal percentage, making an impressive 62.8 percent (294-of-468) of her shots, ranking third among Division II shooters. Reed Thyne closed the regular season with a flourish, becoming the first RMAC women’s basketball player to record a triple-double, posting 24 points, 10 rebounds, and 11 assists in a win against Black Hills State that secured Colorado Mesa’s undefeated RMAC season.

Reed Thyne leads a 10-member First Team Academic All-RMAC group with seven of the league’s women’s basketball-sponsoring institutions represented. South Dakota Mines Savea Mansfield joined Reed Thyne as the only returning First Team Academic All-RMAC selections.

In addition, the RMAC recognized 65 student-athletes, including the 10 Academic All-RMAC honorees, on its 2025-26 Women’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 as both an undergraduate and graduate student, 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 as both an undergraduate and graduate student, 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 71 NCAA Division II national champions and 54 national runners-up since 1992.

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
Olivia Reed Thyne (1, 3x)	Colorado Mesa	Sr.	F	3.92	Kinesiology	Windsor, Colo.
Savea Mansfield (1)	South Dakota Mines	Jr.	F	3.76	Pre-Professional Health	Washougal, Wash.
Ellie Mitchell	Westminster	Jr.	G	4.00	Nursing	Springville, Utah
Mason Rowland	Colorado Mesa	RSo.	G	3.90	Accounting	Durango, Colo.
Tess Rule	Black Hills State	So.	G	4.00	Exercise Science	Buffalo, Wyo.
Bradie Schlabs	Black Hills State	So.	G	4.00	Education	Cheyenne, Wyo.
Ivey Schmidt	Western Colorado	Sr.	G	3.78	Business Administration	Grinnell, Iowa
Jenna Shandy	Colorado School of Mines	RSr.	G	3.87 3.74	B.S. Mechanical Engineering Engineering & Technology Management	Parker, Colo.
Sawyer Stoebner	Black Hills State	So.	G	4.00	Criminal Justice & Multimedia Journalism
Genesis Sweetwine	CSU Pueblo	Sr.	G	3.82	Exercise Science	Aurora, Colo.
Notes: A (1) indicates the student-athlete was a 2024-25 First Team Academic All-RMAC honoree, and a 3x indicates the student-athlete is a three-time First Team Academic All-RMAC selection.