COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) announced the major award winners and all-conference recipients for the 2024-25 indoor track & field season on Thursday with redshirt senior Richard Safoh being tabbed as the RMAC Men's Indoor Co-Field Athlete of the Year and the University of Colorado Colorado Springs track & field team collecting a total of 55 All-RMAC accolades.
 
Chadron State College's Chayton Bynes secured a share of the RMAC Men's Field Athlete of the Year accolade along with Safoh, while Romain Legendre and Harrison Boyd of Adams State University brought home RMAC Men's Track Athlete of the Year and RMAC Men's Freshman of the Year honors, respectively. Despite finishing second overall at the indoor conference meet behind UCCS, Colorado School of Mines' head coach Matt Sparks was voted as the RMAC Men's Coach of the Year.
 
On the women's side, Colorado State University Pueblo's Helen Braybrook and Mines' Jenna Ramsey Rutledge were named as the Co-RMAC Women's Track Athletes of the Year while Mines' Avery Wright secured RMAC Women's Field Athlete of the Year honors and New Mexico Highlands University's Rujeko Munetsi was named the RMAC Women's Freshman of the Year. Sparks was also tabbed as the RMAC Women's Coach of the Year after leading the Oredigger women to a third straight indoor conference title.

All major awards were voted on by the conference's head coaches. First Team All-RMAC consists of the top three individual finishers from each event and the first-place relay teams at the RMAC Indoor Track and Field Championships. Second Team All-RMAC consists of the fourth, fifth and sixth place individual finishers, along with the second-place relay teams.

A redshirt senior from Aurora, Colo., Safoh earns RMAC Men's Field Athlete of the Year honors for the first time in his career after an incredible indoor season. In his final campaign as a member of the Mountain Lions, Safoh posted NCAA provisional qualifying marks in the long jump and 100m dash and finished the campaign ranked tied for fourth in the nation for the long jump with his season-best mark of 7.59m. At the RMAC Indoor Championship meet, Safoh scored 16 points for the Mountain Lion men's squad as the individual conference champion in the long jump and the bronze medal winner in the 100m dash. In addition to collecting All-RMAC First Team accolades in the long jump and 100m, the fifth-year standout was named to the USTFCCCA All-Region team in the long jump and earned qualification for the 2025 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships, where he posted a mark of 7.31m to finish seventh overall and earn USTFCCCA First Team All-America distinction for the second consecutive year. 
 
In addition to Safoh's major award, the Mountain Lion men's and women's teams also combined to post 55 All-Conference honors at the 2025 RMAC Indoor Track & Field Championships, including 35 on the men's side and 20 on the women's side.
 
Men's First Team All-RMAC (20)
60m: Kymani Sterling – 2^nd place (6.75)
60m: Richard Safoh – 3^rd place (6.78)
200m: Daryn Ofori-Kuragu – 2^nd place (21.96)
200m: Sebastien Jean – 3^rd place (21.98)
400m: Ashton Whisler – 2^nd place (47.88)
400m: Sebastien Jean – 3^rd place (48.18)
Mile: Jagger Zlotoff – 1^st place (4:14.06)
60mh: Nigel James – 2^nd place (8.00)
DMR: Brett Davis – 1^st place (10:03.50)
DMR: Peyton Nelson – 1^st place (10:03.50)
DMR: Joseph Hamilton – 1^st place (10:03.50)
DMR: Jagger Zlotoff – 1^st place (10:03.50)
HJ: KJ McInnis – 1^st place (2.04m)
PV: Caiden Macktinger – 1^st place (5.32m)
LJ: Richard Safoh – 1^st place (7.46m)
TJ: KJ McInnis – 2^nd place (14.90m)
SP: Kyle Demos – 3^rd place (16.60m)
WT: Luke Hard – 1^st place (19.91m)
Hept: Evan Atkin – 2^nd place (5,090)
Hept: Thorben Hast – 3^rd place (4,953)
 
Women's First Team All-RMAC (10)
60m: Victoria Farinas – 3^rd place (7.47)
200m: Victoria Farinas – 3^rd place (24.86)
Mile: Kate Hedlund – 2^nd place (4:59.26)
3,000m: Anna Fauske – 1^st place (9:44.85)
5,000m: Anna Fauske – 1^st place (17:13.91)
HJ: Dallis Robinson – T3^rd place (1.59m)
PV: Brooke Peterson – T3^rd place (3.78m)
LJ: Paige Cordero – 1^st place (5.79m)
LJ: Danaya Kinnard – 3^rd place (5.74m)
WT: Savannah Jorgens – 2^nd place (17.52m)
 
Men's Second Team All-RMAC (15)
60m: Daryn Ofori-Kuragu – 4^th place (6.78)
200m: Kymani Sterling – 6^th place (22.36)
Mile: Brett Davis – 5^th place (4:20.75)
Mile: Joseph Impellitteri – 6^th place (4:23.80)
4x400m: Nigel James – T2^nd place (3:17.68)
4x400m: Peyton Nelson – T2^nd place (3:17.68)
4x400m: Sean Donelson – T2^nd place (3:17.68)
4x400m: Ashton Whisler – T2^nd place (3:17.68)
HJ: Alex Emers – 4^th place (1.99m)
LJ: KJ McInnis – 4^th place (7.21m)
TJ: Realiti Smith – 5^th place (14.18m)
SP: Kane Fobare – 5^th place (15.33m)
WT: Michael Roberts – 4^th place (18.54m)
WT: Hayden Cuevas – 5^th place (18.45m)
Hept: Dillon Arvayo – 6^th place (4,635)
 
Women's Second Team All-RMAC (10)
400m: Krissie Sanders – 5^th place (57.77)
800m: Kate Hedlund – 5^th place (2:15.01)
Mile: Rachel Richtman – 5^th place (5:06.55)
60mh: Krissie Sanders – 5^th place (8.86)
PV: Phia Edwards – T5^th place (3.68m)
LJ: Madissyn Moore – 4^th place (5.66m)
LJ: Chelsea Howard – 5^th place (5.61m)
TJ: Payton Rodgers – 4^th place (11.72m)
TJ: Sophia Bowser – 6^th place (11.38m)
WT: Victoria Malaki – 6^th place (16.09m)
 
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