COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) recognized the top student-athletes in the sport of women's soccer on Monday morning for excelling on the field and in the classroom with the release of the First Team Academic All-RMAC selections as well as the RMAC Academic Honor Roll. Representing Black Hills State among the league's First Team Academic All-RMAC honorees was junior defender, Ainsley Wilson, while the Yellow Jackets placed ten on the honor roll. 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
 
Wilson was one of just two Yellow Jackets to appear and start in all 18 games this season, tallying 1,553 minutes, the second most minutes on the team. The Loveland, Colorado, native was a part of a back line defense that posted three shutouts on the year, the second most in a season in program history, and helped notch the best single game defensive performance in school history against Minnesota Crookston. When Black Hills State secured the shutout against UMC, Wilson played the full 90 minutes as they held the Golden Eagles to the fewest shot attempts (3) and shots on goal (1) in a single match. In the classroom Wilson has accumulated a 4.00 GPA as a Biology & Chemistry major.
 
Also announced on Monday morning was the 2024 RMAC Women's Soccer Academic Honor roll which recognized 165 student-athletes, ten of which hailed from Black Hills State University. Among the athletes honored for the Yellow Jackets were Rylee Barnes, Makayla Dannelly, Ainsley Wilson, Ella Cornelius, Kayla Osegueda, Makayla Selensky, Hailey Warren, Allie Brown, Katy Vinton, and Makaiah Carlson. 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.