DENVER— Colorado Mesa University redshirt sophomore volleyball standout Sabrina VanDeList has been named as the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference's Summit Award Winner.
 
She is the first Maverick volleyball player to ever win the award, which adds to her already impressive haul of academic and athletic honors this season and in her career.
 
VanDeList, an elementary education major, has a perfect 4.00 GPA.  The Severance, Colorado native is a 2019 graduate of Fort Collins High School.
 
The RMAC Summit Award, which was officially presented to her by Commissioner Chris Graham before the Mavs' RMAC Tournament quarterfinal victory over Colorado Christian, is given to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade point average who is competing at their respective sport's championship site.
 
Summit Award winners must have competed in 20 percent of available competitions throughout the current season. All GPAs are based on a straight-grading scale to ensure consistency among nominees. All ties are broken by the total number of credit hours completed through the most recently concluded semester.
 
To be eligible for the award, student-athletes must be a sophomore or above, academically, and have participated in their sport at their institution for at least two years. Student-athletes must be active members of their teams, traveling and competing at the RMAC championship event. Graduate students are not eligible to win the award.
 
VanDeList was also recently named as the RMAC's Academic Player of the Year after a vote of the conference's sports information directors based on a combination of athletic and academic accomplishments and has been a 2-time First Team RMAC All-Academic honoree.

She also picked up CoSIDA Academic All-America honors last year and will be nominated for those again this season.
 
CMU's starting setter was also named to the First Team All-RMAC unit for the third straight season on Thursday, a day that saw her reach the 2,500-career assist milestone on the dot, becoming just the eighth Maverick in program history to reach the milestone.  She also eclipsed the 1,000-assist mark for the season on Thursday, becoming the first Maverick in six years to accomplish that feat in six years.
 
VanDeList leads the RMAC this year with 51 service aces and ranks second in the conference and fifth in Division II for assists per set (11.42).
 
She has also earned nine career RMAC Setter of the Week honors, three of which have come this season, and was selected as the RMAC Freshman of the Year in the spring of 2021.
 
As a team, the Mavericks are 21-5 overall and are ranked 17^th in the latest national poll.  They will play a RMAC Tournament semifinal match against 14^th-ranked Regis on Friday at 5 p.m. inside MSU Denver's Auraria Event Center.