COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Matthew Storer, a Colorado Christian University graduate student, has been named the 2025-26 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Academic Athlete of the Year, and leads the 24-member First Team Academic All-RMAC Team as selected by the league’s athletic communication directors.  

Storer, a business major with an emphasis in economics, earns the conference’s highest academic honor after entering the indoor track and field season with a 3.713 undergraduate grade-point average and a 4.00 in his master’s program. This is Storer’s third year earning an Academic All-RMAC distinction. 

The Colorado Springs product competed in his final indoor track and field season and added to his impressive list of accolades. The four-time indoor All-American took second at the RMAC Indoor Track & Field Championship with a 5,000-meter time of 14:58.90 on the world’s highest collegiate indoor track at 7,723 feet of elevation. He ended his final indoor campaign with a second-team All-American finish in the 5,000-meter, placing 18^th with a time of 14:38.51. 

Colorado Christian’s pair of Storer and Klay Grant each earned their third Academic All-RMAC distinction in the 25-member First Team Academic All-RMAC group. Colorado Mesa University’s Chase Brown and University of Colorado Colorado Springs’ Kyle Demos repeat as Academic All-RMAC honorees. 

The RMAC also recognized 200 student-athletes, including the 25 First Team Academic All-RMAC honorees, on its 2025-26 Men’s Indoor Track and Field Academic Honor Roll. 
The RMAC Academic Honor Roll recognizes student-athletes in each conference-sponsored sport who academically maintain at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA, have completed two consecutive semesters at their current institution, and have participated in a season of competition.  

Each institution’s athletic communications directors nominate student-athletes who academically maintain at least a 3.50 cumulative GPA, 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 currently competes in 22 NCAA Division II sports and has earned 71 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.