COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.  The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference on Wednesday afternoon released its 2023-24 RMAC Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field All-Academic teams, listing Western Colorado's Kaiya Firor, Landon Gary and Leah Taylor as first-team honorees.

Along with the three first-team selections, 21 women and 32 men from the Mountaineer indoor track program earned all-academic Honor Roll inclusion.

First-team all-academic honors are voted on by the league's sports information directors and nominations require a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.500 as well as having completed at least two consecutive semesters at their current institution.

Taylor earned two All-America honors at the 2024 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championship meet, placing sixth in the women's mile and anchoring the fourth-place distance medley relay.

An All-South-Central Region miler and two-time first-team all-conference performer this season, Taylor set a facility record in winning the 3,000-meter run at the RMAC championship meet in Spearfish, S.D., where she also anchored the winning DMR for Western.

Firor was on the fourth-place DMR at nationals to earn All-America status, and her sixth place in the 400-meter dash at the RMAC meet earned a second-team all-conference honor.

Gary ran the second leg of the men's DMR at nationals, earning second-team All-America honors with the foursome's ninth-place finish. An all-region DMR teammate, Gary placed fifth in the men's 400m at the RMAC meet to pick up second-team all-conference honors and anchored the fifth-place 4x400 relay at the meet.

Honor roll student-athletes must have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.300 and must also have completed at least two consecutive semesters at their current institution.

Western's honor roll student-athletes from the women's program include: Emma Berg, Laura Brignoli, Dulce Carlos, Erin Carroll, Darby Downham, Jada Hynds, Elizabeth Johnson, Emma Kjellsen, Emily Koetteritz, Lacey Kunz, Megan McLaughlin, Reece Mercer, Bella Miller, Jayda Nix, Cora Olson, Kelia Portis, Ainsley Rosenow, Sophie Varela, Peyton Weiss, Lauren Willson, and Haley Wood.

Honor roll student-athletes from the men's program include: Brock Baumgart, Sam Burns, Logan Butterfield, Joel Carlson, Daniel Carr, Soren Cleveland, Branden Davis, Juan Diaz, Deagen Fahrney, Ben Ford, Noe Garcia, Ari Gardner, Adam Garrison, Scott Grable, John Houdeshell, Nate Jackson, Will Johnson, Jeremy Killoy, Bryce Kizewski, Andrey Kutchma, Sean McCauley, Riley Namba, Tyler Nord, Ryan Outler, Kyle Partin, Jackson Schwartz, Aidan Scott, Robert Scott, Tristan Smith, Eddie Siuda, Braxton Walk, and Garrett Watts.