COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.  The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference on Friday afternoon released its 2025 RMAC All-Academic Football Team, showing Harlon Hill Award finalist Drew Nash as the All-Academic Player of the Year on offense, as well as listing five Mountaineer teammates on the all-academic first teams.

Nominations are submitted and voted on by the league's athletics communications directors. Nominees for first-team candidacy must have a minimum grade-point average of 3.50 or higher, have been a starter or significant contributor during the season, and must be in at least their third semester at the institution. Directors are not permitted to vote for their own student-athletes. Honor roll recognition includes the same requirements but with a minimum GPA of 3.30.

Nash, already voted the 2025 All-RMAC Player of the Year on offense, is a redshirt senior majoring in exercise and sports science with a 3.67 grade point average.

Western's career leading in touchdown passes (77), Nash finished the 2025 season second in the NCAA Division II statistics in points responsible for per game (22.0), third in DII in total points responsible for (264), 11th in total offense per game (291.6) and 17th in DII in total passing yards (2,938).

Joining him on the first-team all-academic offense Chance Wiening, an exercise and sports science graduate student with a 3.97 GPA. Wiening, and offensive lineman, and Nash both earned first-team RMAC all-academic honors last season, with Wiening going on to earn a College Sports Communicators (CSC, formerly CoSIDA) 2024 Football First Team Academic All-America award.

Four Mountaineers were voted first team RMAC all-academic on the defensive side of the ball including defensive end Ricky Freymond, who last season was the RMAC Defensive Player of the Year, a 2024 first team RMAC all-academic selection, and joined Wiening as a first team CSC Academic All-America honoree. Freymond is a redshirt senior with a 3.63 GPA in business administration.

The other three first team defensive players were each on last season's RMAC all-academic honor roll.

Defensive end Drew Johnson is a redshirt sophomore with a 3.68 GPA in accounting, while linebacker Kade Musser is a redshirt sophomore with a 3.58 GPA in business administration, and fellow linebacker Ian Loomis is a junior with a 3.62 GPA in exercise and sports science.

The Mountaineer program also earned inclusion of 21 players on the RMAC All-Academic Honor roll. Those student-athletes include:

• DJ Allen Jr. – WR (R-JR, business administration)
• Jackson Archambault – WR (F-FR, business administration)
• Ryan Bynarowicz – LB (R-SO, biology)
• Blayz Del Barrio – DB (JR, accounting)
• Jordan Glaze – DB (R-FR, business administration)
• Trey Javorek – WR (R-SO, business administration)
• Isaiah Jones – RB (R-FR, exercise and sports science)
• Jacob Naibauer – OL (R-JR, business administration)
• Blake Nieslanik – DB (R-JR, business administration)
• Taylor Nichols – OL (R-JR, business administration)
• Daniel Parsek – TE (GR, exercise and sports science)
• Easton Peterson – DB (R-SO, business administration)
• Luke Riters – WR (R-FR, business administration)
• Nate Scharnhorst – DB (R-SO, accounting)
• Gabe Schubarth – RB (R-SO, exercise and sports science)
• Brayden Skinner – OL (R-FR, exercise and sports science)
• Mikey Smith – DT (R-SO, exercise and sports science)
• Zayne Stam – LB (R-JR, applied physics)
• Kaden Stewart – LB (R-JR, business administration)
• Josiah Switzer – DL (R-FR, biology)
• Jaydon Young – DL (R-JR, sociology)