COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) revealed the major award winners and all-conference honorees for the 2025 outdoor track & field season on Monday with the University of Colorado Colorado Springs track & field team garnering a trio of major awards to go along with 63 All-RMAC awards.
 
On the men's side, UCCS head coach Ross Fellows was tabbed as the RMAC Men's Coach of the Year after leading the Mountain Lions to their fifth consecutive outdoor conference title while redshirt sophomore KJ McInnis was named as the Men's Co-Field Athlete of the Year. Chayton Bynes of Chadron State College joined McInnis as the Men's Co-Field Athlete of the Year and Colorado Mesa University's Mateo Casados was voted as the Men's Track Athlete of the Year. Colorado Mesa's Aidan Brownell and Chadron State's Trace Hanchett were selected as the Men's Co-Freshmen of the Year.
 
After leading the UCCS women's team back to the top of the conference for the first time since the 2023 season, Fellows was also voted by his peers as the RMAC Women's Coach of the Year. Adams State University's Ava O'Connor was voted as the Women's Track Athlete of the Year, while Rojrika Cambell of New Mexico Highlands University secured Women's Field Athlete of the Year honors and Emily LaMena of Colorado School of Mines brought home Women's Freshman of the Year accolades.
 
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 Outdoor 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.
 
McInnis secured RMAC Men's Field Athlete of the Year honors after establishing himself as one of the top male jumpers in the conference during the outdoor season. McInnis raised his level of competition when it mattered most at the conference championship meet as he notched RMAC Men's Performer of the Meet honors after leading all men's student-athletes with 26 points. The redshirt sophomore from Denver, Colo. posted a trio of season-best marks at the conference meet as he earned a gold medal in the triple jump with an NCAA provisional qualifying leap of 14.81m, a gold medal in the high jump with a bar of 1.99m, and a bronze medal in the long jump with a mark of 7.16m.
 
Coming off a sweep of the outdoor conference championship meet, Fellows was selected by the league's coaches as both the Men's and Women's Coach of the Year, marking the 16^th and 17^th times he has won the award. Under the leadership of Fellows, the Mountain Lions scored a program-high 198 points on the men's side to secure their fifth consecutive outdoor conference title while the women's team scored 172 points to reclaim their position at the top of the conference with their fifth outdoor title since the 2019 season. The Mountain Lions have now secured a total of 19 men's and women's conference championship trophies since Fellows took over the program for the 2016-17 season, including 10 outdoor titles and nine indoor titles. 

In addition to winning a pair of outdoor conference titles this season, the Mountain Lions were heavily represented on the NCAA provisional qualifying performance lists as the men's and women's teams combined to record a total of 35 provisional marks, including six that ranked inside the top 10 for their respective events. Fellows and the Mountain Lions will close the outdoor season next week as a total of 15 student-athletes were selected to compete across 11 individual entries and two relay entries at the 2025 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Pueblo, Colo.
 
In addition to the three major awards, the Mountain Lion men's and women's teams also combined to post 63 All-Conference honors at the 2025 RMAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships, including 35 on the men's side and 28 on the women's side.
 
Men's First Team All-RMAC (23)
100m: Kymani Sterling – 3^rd place (10.52)
400m: Sebastien Jean – 1^st place (46.04)
400m: Ashton Whisler – 3^rd place (47.00)
1500m: Jagger Zlotoff – 2^nd place (4:01.55)
5,000m: Logan Cole – 3^rd place (15:02.69)
4x100m: Daryn Ofori-Kuragu – 1^st place (39.94)
4x100m: Kymani Sterling – 1^st place (39.94)
4x100m: Donovan Mini – 1^st place (39.94)
4x100m: Sebastien Jean – 1^st place (39.94)
4x400m: Sebastien Jean – 1^st place (3:11.37)
4x400m: Peyton Nelson – 1^st place (3:11.37)
4x400m: Sean Donelson – 1^st place (3:11.37)
4x400m: Ashton Whisler – 1^st place (3:11.37)
HJ: KJ McInnis – 1^st place (1.99m)
HJ: Alex Emers – 3^rd place (1.94m)
PV: Caiden Macktinger – 1^st place (5.07m)
LJ: KJ McInnis – 3^rd place (7.16m)
TJ: KJ McInnis – 1^st place (14.81m)
SP: Kyle Demos – 2^nd place (17.52m)
DT: Kyle Demos – 1^st place (53.09m)
HT: Luke Hard – 1^st place (62.42m)
DEC: Evan Atkin – 2^nd place (6,613)
DEC: Dillon Arvayo – 3^rd place (6,363)
 
Women's First Team All-RMAC (11)
5,000m: Anna Fauske – 2^nd place (17:49.15)
10,000m: Anna Fauske – 1^st place (36:14.05)
10,000m: Kseniya Nikanorov – 3^rd place (36:31.39)
100mh: Krissie Sanders – 2^nd place (14.35)
400mh: Krissie Sanders – 2^nd place (1:00.30)
3,000m SC: Rachel Richtman – 2^nd place (10:53.16)
PV: Brooke Peterson – 2^nd place (3.78m)
LJ: Madissyn Moore – 2^nd place (5.64m)
LJ: Danaya Kinnard – 3^rd place (5.56m)
TJ: Payton Rodgers – 2^nd place (11.88m)
HT: Savannah Jorgens – 3^rd place (54.74m)
 
Men's Second Team All-RMAC (12)
100m: Daryn Ofori-Kuragu – 5^th place (10.58)
200m: Kymani Sterling – 4^th place (20.92)
200m: Daryn Ofori-Kuragu – 5^th place (20.95)
400m: Sean Donelson – 5^th place (48.02)
110mh: Nigel James – 4^th place (14.69)
3,000m SC: Joseph Impellitteri – 6^th place (9:32.05)
LJ: Willie Tran – 6^th place (6.93m)
TJ: Realiti Smith – 4^th place (14.31m)
SP: Kane Fobare – 5^th place (16.83m)
DT: Michael Roberts – 6^th place (47.11m)
HT: Hayden Cuevas – 5^th place (55.45m)
HT: Michael Roberts – 6^th place (54.74m)
 
Women's Second Team All-RMAC (17)
200m: Danaya Kinnard – 5^th place (24.18)
200m: Zane Bullock – 6^th place (24.31)
400m: Rachel Goodrich – 6^th place (57.43)
800m: Olivia Sargent – 4^th place (2:18.45)
100mh: Payton Rodgers – 5^th place (14.62)
3,000m SC: Audrey Brunken – 5^th place (11:12.30)
HJ: Lilyana Delagarza – 4^th place (1.67m)
HJ: Dallis Robinson – T5^th place (1.59m)
PV: Phia Edwards – T4^th place (3.53m)
LJ: Zane Bullock – 5^th place (5.56m)
LJ: Chelsea Howard – 6^th place (5.51m)
SP: Bailey Young – 5^th place (13.64m)
SP: Savannah Jorgens – 5^th place (13.43m)
DT: Victoria Malaki – 4^th place (43.66m)
HT: Bailey Young – 5^th place (52.37m)
HT: Victoria Malaki – 6^th place (52.20m)
JT: Dyanna Parra – 6^th place (39.18m)
 
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