COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— Colorado Mesa University senior Ada Qunell was named as the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference's Women's Swimming & Diving Academic Athlete of the Year while leading a list of nine Mavericks named to the First Team Academic All-RMAC squad.
 
The Mavericks led all RMAC teams with their nine first team selections and also had a league-high 20 athletes named to the RMAC's Academic Honor Roll, six more than any other RMAC women's program (Western Colorado).  The Mavs' total of first team picks was triple the next highest team (Colorado School of Mines).
 
The Maverick men also had the RMAC Academic Athlete of the Year in Ben Vester and nine of the 16 first team picks.
 
Qunell, who hails from Whitefish, Montana, has a 3.88 grade point average and is majoring in chemistry.  She finished her 4-year Maverick career as an 18-time CSCAA (College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America) All-American and won 16 RMAC titles in her time as a Mav.  In 2025-26 alone, she won five RMAC titles and earned five all-America honors.  
 
She is the seventh straight Maverick to earn the conference's top academic award after a balloting of the league's athletic communications directors, who selected the first team based on a combination of athletic and academic accomplishments.  Due to a tie in voting, 19 athletes were selected, three more than the scheduled 16.
 
Kiara Borchardt, the 2024 RMAC Academic Athlete of the Year, and Kenya Meyer, the 2025 recipient, were also named to the first team for the third straight year.
 
Additionally, Olivia Hansson was selected for a third successive season.
 
The Mavs' other first team selections include repeat picks Mimi Licht and Hanna Sasivarevic and first time honorees Reagan Horn, Jenna Hurley and Antonia Leese.
 
Borchardt, a native of Eagle River, Alaska has a 3.82 GPA and is majoring in exercise science.  Like Qunell, she is a 2-time College Sports Communicators Academic All-American and won 12 CSCAA All-America honors and 11 RMAC titles in her career.  She and Qunell were also a part of two NCAA Division II Championship 400-yard medley relay teams in their careers.
 
Meyer, the Mavs' and the RMAC's top diver, has a 3.87 GPA and is also majoring in exercise science.  The Bozeman, Montana native was the national runner-up on the 1-meter board this year and took fourth on the 3-meter after repeating her RMAC titles on both boards.  She also holds the RMAC Championship records and all of CMU's diving records and ends her career as a 6-time RMAC Champion and was named as the RMAC Championship Diver of the Meet in all four years of her career.
 
Hansson, a native of Kivik, Sweden, holds a 3.70 GPA and is majoring in mathematics.  She was named as the RMAC Championship Swimmer of the Meet after sweeping the 500, 1000 and 1650 freestyle events while also helping the Mavs set a RMAC Championship record time of 7:18.27 in the 800 Free Relay.  Throughout her career, Hanson won ten RMAC titles and was a 16-time all-American.  She earned six of those all-America honors this season.
 
Licht holds a 3.64 GPA and is majoring in business administration.  A senior and native of Fairfield, Connecticut, finished eighth in the 3-meter diving event at this year's NCAA Championships to earn her second career first team all-America honor.
 
Sasivarevic, a junior from Salt Lake City, Utah, has a 3.82 GPA while majoring in psychology.  She earned all-America honors in all six of her events at the NCAA Championships.  She also scored 87 points in her four RMAC Championship individual events and was a part of the Mavs' RMAC Championship record-setting 800 free relay team alongside Hansson and Qunell.
 
Horn, a sophomore business administration major, has a 4.00 GPA and scored 77 points at the RMAC Championships, placing third in the 50 free while helping the Mavs win 200 Medley and 400 free relay titles.  She is also a 3-time CSCAA All-American.
 
Hurley, a junior diver from Southlake, Texas, has a 3.68 GPA and is majoring in exercise science.  She was named the 2023-24 RMAC Diver of the Year as a freshman and earned a pair of second team all-America honors with 11^th (3-meter) and 13^th (1-meter) place finishes at the NCAA Championships after taking third in both events at the RMAC Championships.
 
Leese, a junior from Round Rock, Texas, has a 3.55 GPA and is majoring in psychology.  She placed third in the 100 breast at the RMAC Championships this year and helped the Mavs break the RMAC Championship record in the 400 medley relay after swimming the breaststroke leg on the Mavs' 2025 NCAA title winning team in that discipline.
 
To be eligible for nomination to the first team, student-athletes must have a 3.5 or higher GPA, be in their second year at the institution and have used a season of eligibility. 
 
Honor roll status requires a 3.30 or higher GPA and the meeting of the other requirements.
 
The Mavs' list of 20 honor roll selections can be found below.

• Kyla Babson (Jr., Mass Communications)
• Tori Bartusiak (Sr., Business Administration)
• Anna Beck (Sr., Business Administration)
• Kiara Borchardt (Sr., Exercise Science)
• Gabby DeLuna (So., Exercise Science)
• Amelia Fish (Sr., Elementary Education)
• Olivia Hansson (Sr., Mathematics)
• Juli Holt (Jr., Biological Sciences)
• Taylar Hooton (So., Mass Communications)
• Reagan Horn (So., Business Administration)
• Melaina Howard (Jr., Kinesiology/K-12 Education)
• Jenna Hurley (Jr., Exercise Science)
• Antonia Leese (Jr., Psychology)
• Emma Lence (So., Criminal Justice)
• Mimi Licht (Sr., Business Administration)
• Kenya Meyer (Sr., Exercise Science)
• Sydnee O'Neil (Jr., Social Work)
• Ada Qunell (Sr., Chemistry)
• Hanna Sasivarevic (Jr., Psychology)
• Kate Speerschneider (Sr., Business Administration)