The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) announced the 2026 First Team Academic All-RMAC and RMAC Academic Honor Roll selections for the sport of softball on Wednesday afternoon. Representing Black Hills State University on the team was Audrey Fouras and Paige Goodell. Along with those two, six others were named to the RMAC Academic Honor Roll including Katelyn Jarzobski, Skylar Bedlan, Gracie Oswald, Carly Reyes Mims, Carli Maley, and Anna Gietzen
Audrey Fouras earned First Team Academic All-RMAC. She was named to the Honor Roll last year and moved up this year with a 3.99 GPA and majoring in Business Administration. Fouras had a fantastic senior season this year for BHSU playing in 49 games and starting all of them. The majority of those at second base where she hit .210 with a .801 OPS,a .401 slugging percentage, and a .400 on-base percentage. She had 22 hits, eight doubles, four home runs, 23 RBIs, 30 runs scored, and 26 walks. Fouras ended the year with a hit in each game of her final series versus Mesa. She also had a crucial walk-off double against MSU Denver earlier this year that helped BHSU beat MSUD in a series for the first time in program history.
Paige Goodell earns her first RMAC Academic award in her sophomore season as she finished with a 3.98 GPA while majoring in Exercise Science. Goodell was a top pitcher for BHSU this season as she pitched in 21 games and made 12 starts. Goodell had a 6.61 ERA in 71 innings finishing with a 3-5 record while striking out 32 batters. Her best game of her career came versus Chadron when she completed her only game this year going five innings, only allowing three hits, one earned run, and striking out three. She had another great game later this season against UCCS where she pitched 5.1 innings. She only gave up four hits and one earned run while helping BHSU get the win.
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 as both an undergraduate and graduate student, 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 as both an undergraduate and graduate student, 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.
