COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – On Saturday evening ahead of the RMAC Golf Championships, the RMAC announced its summit award winners and Braydon Jones of the South Dakota Mines men's golf team was the male recipient.
 
The RMAC Summit Awards are presented to student-athletes with the highest cumulative GPA that are also competing at the site of the finals for their sport's championship. 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, who 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.
 
Braydon Jones was named the winner after holding a perfect GPA as an electrical engineering major. Jones has now won three consecutive summit awards to go along with a College Sports Communicator's Academic All-America Second Team selection in 2022-23, the RMAC Men's Academic Golf of the Year award in 2023-24 and two additional RMAC All-Academic First Team selections. 
 
Jones was honored and presented with the award on Saturday night during the awards ceremony dinner.
 
Beginning today, the RMAC Championships are being played at the Boulder City Creek Golf Course in Boulder City, Nevada. For more information on the championship, visit the 2025 RMAC Golf Championships page linked here. The RMAC release is also available above. 
 
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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.