Paxton Ritchey-CSC Sports Information
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Senior Aubree Heinsma and sophomore Allison Sanger both earned selection to the RMAC Women’s Golf All-Academic First Team, giving CSC a quarter of the eight total selections announced by the conference office on Wednesday. Klara Kleinig and Payton Wise also made the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.
Heinsma, also a two-time RMAC Summit Award winner as the golfer with the highest GPA competing at the conference championships, earns her second consecutive first-team nod, while Sanger records the first RMAC academic honor of her career with Wednesday’s selection. Chadron State is one of only two RMAC schools with multiple first-team selections, joining CSU Pueblo, which had three.
The Eagles duo, who both hail from Windsor, Colorado, each have perfect 4.0 GPAs. Heinsma is a physical sciences major while Sanger is a sport, fitness and recreation major.
Heinsma continues to add to a decorated academic trophy case with her second All-Academic First Team selection. After missing the fall season with injury, Heinsma competed in all five spring events for CSC and put together a season-best score to par of 11-over 155 at the Southern Colorado Open and a season-best leaderboard finish of 11th out of 62 at the SMSU Challenge. Heinsma finished tied for 38th at the RMAC Championships, a year after pacing CSC golfers by finishing 30th and hitting just one of two eagles in the entire tournament.
Sanger competed in all nine events for CSC golf between the fall and spring. Sanger emerged as a standout on day three at the RMAC Championships, when she shot 1-under through nine holes despite high winds that forced the cancellation of the remainder of the event. That 1-under was the best score of the day in the entire 58-golfer field, helping Sanger climb 13 spots on the leaderboard on the final day to finish within the top 20. Sanger also placed 18th at the SMSUSpring Invite and 12th at the CMU Maverick Challenge.
Westminster’s Ashley Lam, already the RMAC Golfer of the Year, was also named the Academic Golfer of the Year. The Griffins also had the most golfers on the honor roll, with five, while CSC was among three schools tied for second with their four honor roll selections.
The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Academic Honor Roll recognizes student-athletes in each conference-sponsored sport who academically maintain at least a 3.30 cumulative grade-point average, have completed two consecutive semesters at their current institution, and have used a season of competition.
Each institution’s athletic communications directors nominate student-athletes who academically maintain at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average, along with the other criteria for the Academic Honor Roll, for recognition on the First Team Academic All-RMAC in each sport. The league’s athletic communications directors for that sport vote to compose the First Team Academic All-RMAC and select the Academic Player of the Year. They are not permitted to vote for their own student-athletes.
