Colorado Mesa’s Qunell Chosen the RMAC Women’s Swimming & Diving Academic Player of the Year, Leads Academic All-RMAC Team and Honor Roll

By: Cody Bush, Associate Commissioner / Strategic Communications

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Colorado Mesa University senior Ada Qunell is the 2025-26 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Academic Player of the Year, main a 19-member First Team Academic All-RMAC Team as chosen by the league’s athletic communication administrators.

Qunell is certainly one of 9 returning First Team Academic All-RMAC picks and certainly one of 5 who’re a three-time first workforce honoree. She entered the swimming & diving season with a 3.88 grade-point common as an train science main at Colorado Mesa.  

She collected 5 gold medals in the course of the 2026 RMAC Swimming & Diving Championships, successful the 100- and 200-yard freestyle occasions and incomes medals as a part of the Mavericks’ 400- and 800-yard freestyle and 400-yard medley relay groups. She went on to garner First Team All-American standing 4 occasions on the 2026 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships, highlighted by a silver medal as a member of the 800-yard freestyle relay workforce.

In addition, the RMAC acknowledged 71 student-athletes, together with the First-Team Academic All-RMAC honorees, on its 2025-26 Women’s Swimming & Diving Academic Honor Roll.

The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Academic Honor Roll acknowledges student-athletes in every conference-sponsored sport who academically keep not less than a 3.30 cumulative grade-point common, have accomplished two consecutive semesters at their present establishment, and have used a season of competitors.

Each establishment’s athletic communications administrators nominate student-athletes who academically keep not less than a 3.50 cumulative grade level common, together with the opposite standards for the Academic Honor Roll, for recognition on the First Team Academic All-RMAC in every sport. The league’s athletic communications administrators for that sport vote to compose the First Team Academic All-RMAC and choose the Academic Player of the Year. They will not be permitted to vote for their very own student-athletes.  

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About the RMAC

The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, headquartered in Colorado Springs, is a premier NCAA Division II convention with 15 establishments positioned in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Utah. The RMAC at the moment competes in 22 NCAA Division II sports activities and has earned 71 nationwide championships and 53 nationwide runners-up since 1992. Founded in 1909, the RMAC is essentially the most historic athletic convention within the western United States and Division II.

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