A total of 52 collegiate football players from Colorado colleges and universities have been recognized by the National Football Foundation’s Hampshire Honor Society, recognizing academic excellence across the sport, reinforcing a consistent truth: football continues to develop disciplined, educated leaders at scale. Click here for the 2026 list of members.
Leading the Hampshire honorees is Air Force tight end Bruin Fleischmann, who will be recognized on April 20 at the NFF Colorado Chapter Scholar-Athlete banquet as the top academic student-athlete among Centennial State collegiate football players. READ MORE
Fleishmann and 19 Colorado high School Scholar-Athletes will receive their awards at the NFF Colorado Chapter’s 33rd annual banquet on April 20 at the East Club presented by L3Harris at the Kucera Legacy Center on the east side of Falcon Stadium on the grounds of the United States Air Force Academy.
Adams State (2) – Seth Boise, Xavi Gutierrez
Air Force (7) – Kurt Chesney, Costen Cooley, Bruin Fleischmann, Luke Freer, Ty Hubert, Zach Juckel, Reagan Tubbs.
Colorado (6) – Tyler Brown, Tavian Coleman, Zylon Crisler, Kam Hawkins, Sav’ell Smalls, Keaton Wade.
Colorado State (8) – Rocky Beers, Jacob Ellis, Alex Foster, Ayden Hector, Tristan Holmbeck, Jake Jarmolowich, Jordan McIntyre, Cody Pettitt.
Colorado Mesa (1) – Kash Bradley.
Colorado Mines (5) – Joel Diaz, Brock Ewing, Konnor Mickelsen, Jake Sype, Jackson Zimmermann.
CSU Pueblo (8) – Andrew Cook, Kellen Curtis, Tyler Dvorak, Roman Fuller, Domingo Prince, Zack Rakowsky, Jaylen Shaw, Cameron Smith.
Fort Lewis (4) – Axton Ching-Manaku, Nicholas Minacapelli, Christopher Thomas Jr., Raef Wilkins.
Northern Colorado (1) – Zach Nowatzke.
Western Colorado (10) – Ricky Freymond, Drew Nash, Taylor Nichols, Blake Nieslanik, Daniel Parsek, Nate Scharnhorst, Kaden Stewart, Drea Thompson, Chance Wiening. Jaydon Young.
