SPEARFISH, S.D. – For the second consecutive year, Black Hills State University’s Blake Volmer is the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Summit Award winner, the conference announced Friday, ahead of the Yellow Jackets’ semifinal matchup in the 2026 RMAC Men’s Basketball Championship.

Volmer, a native of Winner, South Dakota, earned his second Summit Award after maintaining a perfect 4.0 undergraduate grade-point average in Business Administration. On the court, the junior has appeared in 29 games for the Yellow Jackets this season, making two starts. In 443 minutes of action, he has averaged 3.3 points, 2.6 rebounds, 0.9 assists, and 0.4 steals per game while shooting an efficient 47.1 percent from the field, 46.3 percent from three-point range, and 75.0 percent from the free-throw line. With Volmer contributing, Black Hills State has climbed to a No. 13 national ranking and compiled a 25-4 overall record, including a 17-3 mark in RMAC play, securing the regular-season conference title and the No. 1 seed in the RMAC Men’s Basketball Championship.

The RMAC’s Summit Award is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA competing at the finals site of their respective sport’s championship. Summit Award winners must compete in 20 percent of available competitions throughout the current season. All GPAs are based on a straight-grading scale to ensure consistency among nominees. All ties are broken by the total number of credit hours completed through the most recently concluded semester.
 
To be eligible for the award, student-athletes must be sophomores or above and have participated in their sport at their institution for at least two years. They must also be active members of their teams and travel to and compete at the RMAC championship event.
 
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 currently competes 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.