COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Colorado State University Pueblo junior punter Regan Baker (Brisbane, Australia/Idaho State) has been named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Summit Award winner for football, the league announced Thursday afternoon.

Baker, anan exercise science major who entered the season with a 4.00 cumulative GPA, has played in all 11 games for the two-time reigning RMAC Champion ThunderWolves this season. On the year, he is averaging 39.8 yards per punt with 12 of his 39 punts being downed inside the 20-yard line. In addition, he recorded a season-best 60 yard punt at Central Missouri, where he averaged 42.6 yards on eight punts and had a 58-yard punt two weeks later at home against Adams State.

Entering the 2025 NCAA Division II playoffs, Baker is sixth in the league in punting average and has had six punts of 50 or more yards. In his two year career, he has recorded 86 punts for a career average of 39.2 yards per punt and has downed 27 career punts inside the 20-yard line and has had six career punts of 50 or more yards, including a career-high 74 yard punt last season against UT Permian Basin.

The RMAC's Summit Award is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA competing at the finals site of their respective sport's championship or whose team won the RMAC regular-season title in those sports without a postseason championship. Summit Award winners must have competed in 20 percent of available competitions throughout the current season. All GPAs are based on a straight-grading scale to ensure consistency among nominees. All ties are broken by the total number of credit hours completed through the most recently concluded semester.

To be eligible for the award, student-athletes must be sophomores or above and have participated in their sport at their institution for at least two years. They must also be active members of their teams and travel to and compete at the RMAC championship event,

Baker is the seventh Pack football player all-time to win the Summit Award as he joins his teammate, junior kicker Evan Lyons (Superior, Colo./Monarch) who won the honor last season, along with Joe Rosenbrock (2013), Justin LaBorde (2014), Corbin Feenstra (2015), Corbin Feenstra (2016, and Preston Guerra (2018).

The fourth-ranked Pack (10-1 overall) took home its second straight RMAC this season following its 30-27 double overtime win last Saturday at home against 22nd-ranked Chadron State and in the process earned the league's automatic qualifier into the NCAA Division II Playoffs. The Pack, who are the No. 3 seed in Super Region Four, will host a first round playoff game on Saturday, Nov. 22 against 10th-ranked UT Permian Basin. Kickoff for Saturday's playoff game in the ThunderBowl is set for 1:02 p.m.