COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.  The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference on Thursday, April 16 announced it RMAC Hall of Fame Class of 2026, an honored group that includes Western Colorado's Eduardo Navas-Rodriguez and the Mountaineers' 1990 women's cross country team.

The class of seven individuals and two teams will be inducted into the league's Hall of Fame on Thursday, July 9 at the COS City Hub in Colorado Springs in a 6 p.m. ceremony.

Navas-Rodriguez – inducted into the Mountaineer Sports Hall of Fame in 1996, the Hall's second class – was part of Western's 1988 RMAC outdoor track & field championship team, winning the 1,500-meter run during the meet to capture that individual title for the third consecutive outdoor season (1986, 1987).

He raced to the RMAC individual title in the 5,000m run in 1987, giving him four RMAC titles, adding to his career accomplishments that included NAIA national titles in the indoor 2-mile run (1987, 1988) and the 3-mile run (1986), and the outdoor 10,000m run (1986) and 5,000m run (1988).

The 1990 Mountaineer women's cross country team won the programs first national championship, edging out defending national champion Adams State, mirroring the close results of the team's RMAC title over the Grizzlies by just three points.

Inducted into the Mountaineer Sports Hall of Fame with the Class of 2000, the national championship squad was led by first-team All-Americans Cassie Henkiel, future Olympian Elva Dryer (neé Martinez), Jolynn Hutchison, and Michelle Chupurdia among the top-15 finishers, and second-team All-American Juli Cyrus.

The 2026 RMAC banquet and ceremony will mark the second consecutive year in which a former Mountaineer will be inducted into the league's Hall of Fame, following the 2025 induction of Lori Moreno Roch.