COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Shania Wear and
Karstin Hollen each became two-time Women's Wrestling First Team Academic All-RMAC selections with the release of the conference's all-academic teams on Thursday.
In addition to Chadron State's first-team picks,
Brianna Vollendroff earned a spot on the league's all-academic honor roll.
Wear and Hollen give Chadron State two of the five repeat selections on the league's 10-member first team. CSC is one of three RMAC schools to place multiple student-athletes on the first team.
A two-time RMAC Summit Award winner (the league's highest academic honor given to the athlete with the highest GPA competing at each sport's championship) and the only Summit Award winner in RMAC women's wrestling history,
Shania Wear adds another academic honor to her decorated resume.
The junior from Gothenburg, Nebraska has a perfect 4.0 GPA as a physical sciences major. On the mat, Wear compiled a 9-14 record this season and finished in fourth place at the 2025 RMAC Championships in the 117-pound weight class.
Karstin Hollen, a redshirt senior from Mesa, Arizona, has a 3.77 GPA as a business administration major. In addition to her two RMAC First Team All-Academic selections, Hollen was recognized as a National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Scholar Athlete All-American in 2022 for her work in the classroom.
Hollen, the final founding member from CSC's inaugural women's wrestling season, is a two-time RMAC Championships placer, taking third at 141 pounds in 2024 before placing sixth at 145 this year. She was in the starting lineup at 145 for every CSC dual this season, in addition to competing at the weight at the RMAC Championships and NCWCC regionals.
Vollendroff, a junior from Oroville, California who is a sport, fitness and recreation major, earns an honor roll selection after a standout on-mat season where she qualified for nationals for the first time in her career. Vollendroff went 1-2 at the national tournament.
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.
Colorado Mesa's Jennesis Martinez, a four-time All-American, was named the RMAC Academic Athlete of the Year. CMU had four first-team selections while Chadron State and Texas Woman's each had two. Adams State and Simon Fraser had one selection each.
