Quarterback Drew Nash from Western Colorado and women’s basketball All-American Olivia Reed Thyne of Colorado Mesa are the 2025-26 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Man and Woman of the Year.
Nash, who led the Mountaineers to back-to-back NCAA Division II playoff appearances, follows 2024-2025 recipient Drew Noble as the league’s Man of the Year. Noble was the first Western Colorado student-athlete and first RMAC men’s wrestler to receive one of the RMAC’s four major individual awards. READ MORE
The RMAC’s Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Reed Thyne becomes just the third student-athlete in conference history to capture the conference’s two most prestigious individual honors in the same season, joining Colorado Christian’s Sophia Proano (2017-2018) and Colorado State Pueblo’s Katherine Higgins (2024-2025). READ MORE
The Man and Woman of the Year awards will be presented during the 2026 RMAC Hall of Fame & Awards Banquet on July 9 at COS City Hub in Colorado Springs. Tickets are available at RMACSports.org/Tickets.
