COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Tanner Comes (Spokane, Wash.), a senior on the University of Colorado Colorado Springs men's golf team, was voted to the 2020 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Men's Golf All-Academic First Team.  Teammates Ignacio de La Vega (Toluca, Mexico), Ji Jang (Denver, Colo.) and Isaac Spillum (Scottsdale, Ariz.) were named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.
 
Due to the shortened season, nominations and voting included the student-athletes career statistics.
 
Sam Barthram of CSU Pueblo has been voted the 2020 RMAC Men's Academic Golfer of the Year. Barthram headlines the … honorees selected to the 2020 RMAC All-Academic list.  Barthram and the other First Team All-Academic team members were voted on by the conference's sports information directors. To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must carry a 3.30 cumulative grade point average and must have been an active student at the institution for at least two consecutive semesters or three consecutive quarters.  All student-athletes who meet those requirements, but were not voted First Team, automatically qualify for Honor Roll.
 
A four-year member of the UCCS men's golf team, senior Tanner Comes was named an All-American in 2018 and earned 2017-18 and 2016-17 All-RMAC First Team accolades.  In four years, he competed in 35 tournaments for the Mountains and owns a 72.8 stroke average.  He finished in the top 10 in 14 tournaments throughout his career.  On Oct. 10-11, 2016, he recorded a career low 202 at the RMAC Event No. 2.  His career low round of 65 was hit in two different tournaments throughout his career.  During the 2019-20 season, Comes played in five tournaments, averaging 73.7 strokes per round.  His best finish of the season was third place at the Concordia Invite on Oct. 7-8, 2019, where he carded a 211 (74, 69, 68).  Comes is a Marketing major with a 3.55 GPA.
 
Junior Ignacio de La Vega has played in 19 tournaments for the Mountain Lions over the past three seasons, including 12 tournaments in his sophomore campaign in 2018-19.  De La Vega wrapped up his sophomore season with career lows for a tournament (216) and a round (67) at the 2019 RMAC Championship Tournament, held April 21-23.  This past fall, he played in four tournaments and averaged 76.2 strokes, while finishing with a season low 225 in two different tournaments, and a season low 71 at the Golf Glove Hub St. Ed's Classic. De La Vega is majoring in International Business and owns a 3.314 GPA.
 
Senior Ji Jang will be graduating from UCCS with a degree in Psychology and a 3.87 GPA.  Part of the Mountain Lions program the past four years, Jang has a 75.8 career stroke average over 15 tournaments for UCCS.  He posted a career low tournament score of 214 on Oct. 10-11, 2016 at the RMAC Event No. 2.  His personal best round was a 71, which he carded five times.  This is Jang's second RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll award of his career.
 
A Mechanical Engineering major with a 3.653 GPA, junior Isaac Spillum has competed in 14 tournaments in the past three years, recording a 77.1 stroke average through 41 rounds.  Last spring, Spillum shot a career low 216 at the WNMU Mustang Intercollegiate on April 8-9, 2019.  This past fall, Spillum competed in four tournaments and registered his best stroke average in a season (76.2).  In the second tournament of the season, he shot a 68, besting his previous mark by two strokes.  He is making his second straight appearance on the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.
 
The Mountain Lions competed in five tournaments during the 2019-20 season before the season was cancelled in March.  UCCS recorded a scoring average of 297.1.  The Mountain Lions finished in the Top 10 in four of their five tournaments, including winning the team title at the Concordia Invitational in Portland, Oregon on Oct. 7-8, 2019.