COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — On the heels of earning conference Player of the Year honors, Olivia Reed doubled up by being named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Academic Player of the Year for women's basketball, announced Wednesday by the conference office.
Reed, a Fitness & Health Promotion major, has a perfect 4.0 GPA in her two years of courses at Colorado Mesa. Including college courses taken while she was in high school, she has cumulative GPA of 3.92.
She and teammate Kylie Kravig, also a straight-A student, are both All-Academic First Team selections.
To be eligible for first-team honors, student-athletes must have a 3.50 or higher GPA encompassing their entire collegiate academic career, be in their second academic year at the nominating institution and have used a season of eligibility. Honor roll nominees must have at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA. Sports Information Directors in the conference vote on the award, and, as is the case in coaches voting for all-conference honors, cannot vote for their own players.
Reed, a sophomore forward from Windsor, has led the Mavericks to a 24-6 record, a share of the RMAC regular-season championship and the No. 2 seed in this week's Division II South Central Region tournament.
Averaging 16.9 points and 11.2 rebounds a game, Reed made the first team All-RMAC squad for the second year in a row. She was the conference Defensive Player of the Week four times this season and the Division II Conference Information Directors Association national player of the week twice.
Reed led the RMAC in field goal percentage (57.3), was fifth in scoring, second in rebounding, second in blocked shots (47) and 11th in assists (78).
Kravig, the Mavericks' point guard, has a 4.0 GPA in Exercise Science and is first in the RMAC and sixth in the nation in assists with 168, just behind Mariah Martin's single-season CMU record of 176. She enters the South Central Region playoffs with 351 career assists, third behind Jill Teeters' program record of 370 and only four assists behind Erin Reichle's 355. Her 5.6 assists per game leads the conference and is 12th nationally.
The junior from Greeley averages 7.5 points per game and has a 2.1 assist-to-turnover ratio, which leads the conference. Kravig, who was an RMAC second-team player this season, also made the conference All-Academic first team last season.
Five Mavericks made the honor roll:
Laura Gutierrez (3.75 Sport Management, Grad./3.86 Business Marketing, UG)
Sophie Hadad (3.57, Exercise Science)
Serena Ileleji (3.31, Business Administration)
Brooke Slymen (3.81, Nursing)
Josee Steadman (3.88, Business Administration)
