Colorado Mesa’s Kenya Meyer and Ada Qunell Earn CSC First Group Academic All-America® Honors

By: Nash Loibl, Advanced Graduate Assistant / Strategic Communications

GREENWOOD, Ind. – The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference was represented on the 2025-26 College Sports Communicators Women’s Swimming & Diving Academic All-America® rosters, introduced Tuesday, with Colorado Mesa University’s Kenya Meyer and Ada Qunell incomes first-team roster spots.

 

The Maverick duo was one in every of simply two Division II faculties (Nova Southeastern) to have two first-team picks.

 

Meyer, a senior from Bozeman, Montana, earned a spot on the 2026 Academic All-America® roster with a 3.87 grade-point common in train science. She delivered an excellent season, ending because the nationwide runner-up on the 1-meter board and putting fourth on the 3-meter after efficiently defending her RMAC titles in each occasions. In the classroom and the pool, she excelled, incomes RMAC Academic Athlete of the Year honors in 2024-25 and being named RMAC Diver of the Year in every of the previous two seasons.

 

Qunell, who boasts a 3.88 GPA in chemistry, has now earned recognition in three consecutive seasons after being named to the second staff in each 2023-24 and 2024-25. During the 2025-26 season, Qunell claimed 5 RMAC titles and earned 5 All-America honors. She was additionally named the RMAC Women’s Swimming & Diving Academic Athlete of the Year.

 

Academic All-American is reserved for school student-athletes who carry out at an elite stage of their chosen sport and the classroom. The all-time checklist of 42,000+ Academic All-Americans contains main sports activities stars and among the world’s most completed people in medication, enterprise, science, and the humanities. Established in 1952 and chosen by College Sports Communicators (CSC), Academic All-America is the longest-running and premier award for athletic and educational success throughout championship faculty sports activities in any respect NCAA ranges, the NAIA, two-year faculties, and Canadian establishments.

 

Teams are introduced year-round and amplified by CSC member faculties, universities, and conferences on a neighborhood, regional, nationwide, and even worldwide scale. Nominating and voting for Academic All-America® is an unique proper of College Sports Communicators members.

 

CSC started the distinguished Academic All-America® program in 1952 and, since then, has honored greater than 42,000 deserving student-athletes from quite a few sports activities throughout all divisions with these elite Academic All-America® scholar-athlete honors.

 

Currently, CSC sponsors Academic All-America® packages for males’s and girls’s soccer, soccer, volleyball, males’s basketball, girls’s basketball, males’s swimming and diving, girls’s swimming and diving, males’s tennis, girls’s tennis, baseball, softball, and males’s and girls’s monitor and area/cross nation. All different championship sports activities are eligible by way of the At-Large program.

 

The Division II Academic All-America® program is financially supported by the NCAA Division II nationwide governance construction to help CSC with dealing with the awards achievement points for the 2024-25 Division II Academic All-America® program.

 

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 present competes in 22 NCAA Division II sports activities and has earned 69 nationwide championships and 53 nationwide runners-up since 1992. Founded in 1909, the RMAC is probably the most historic athletic convention within the western United States and Division II.

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