COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.  The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference on Thursday, July 2 announced its list of the league's 2025-26 Brechler Award winners, an honored academic list that includes Western Colorado's women's swimming & diving team and the men's basketball team.

The Brechler Awards — initiated with the 2012-13 academic year — are named in honor of Paul W. Brechler, a former RMAC commissioner (1976-90), and his wife Wanda Brechler, who were the first inductees into the RMAC Hall of Fame. Team grade point averages are submitted to the RMAC office by each institution's compliance administrator with the award given to the team with the highest academic year GPA in each of the RMAC's sport offerings.

Posting it's fifth consecutive and sixth overall Brechler Award was the Mountaineer swimming & diving team with a cumulative GPA of 3.822, the highest GPA of its six Brechler honors.

Men's basketball posted a team GPA of 3.712 to earn its fourth Brechler honor.

Mountaineer history in the Brechler Awards:

• 2012-13: women's indoor track & field (3.47), outdoor track & field (3.53), women's volleyball (3.44)
• 2013-14: wrestling (2.95)
• 2014-15: football (2.96), women's swimming & diving (3.56)
• 2020-21: men's basketball (3.38), wrestling (3.14)
• 2021-22: women's swimming & diving (3.621)
• 2022-23: men's basketball (3.47), women's swimming & diving (3.56), wrestling (3.09)
• 2023-24: men's basketball (3.727), women's cross country (3.681), women's soccer (3.685), women's swimming & diving (3.518)
• 2024-25: women's swimming & diving (3.601)
• 2025-26: women's swimming & diving (3.822), men's basketball (3.712)