COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - This afternoon, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference announced its RMAC All-Academic Volleyball teams and for the first time in school history, South Dakota Mines had multiple student-athletes honored on the first team with Alessandra Meoni and Kiley Metzger earning the honor. 

In addition, the Hardrockers had six more selected to the honor roll. 
 
Individuals must have a minimum of a 3.50 GPA to be elgible for the first team and 3.30 to be selected to the Honor Roll. Both awards require student-athletes to have completed a minimum of two consecutive semesters at their respective institutions.
 
Both first team selections have near perfect GPAs with Alessandra Meoni as a senior studying biomedical engineering, while Kiley Metzger will graduate with her master's degree in Engineering Management after earning her undergraduate degree in 2023 in Electrical Engineering. 

The other six student-athletes named to the honor roll were as follows:
Annelise Larson - So., Mechanical Engineering
Ellison Spencer - So., Civil Engineering
Emma Grimm - Sr., Biomedical Engineering
Hannah Benes - Jr., Mechanical Engineering
Jenna Curtis - Sr., Pre-Professional Health Sciences
Josey Wickersham - So., Biomedical Engineering
 
The full RMAC release is linked here.
 
About South Dakota Mines
The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology is a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) and NCAA Division II offering 13 men's and women's varsity intercollegiate athletic programs. The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference is a premier NCAA Division II conference with 15 members, as well as four associate members, located in the states of California, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Utah.