COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Colorado State University Pueblo senior pitcher Luke Ruby (Fort Collins, Colo./Resurrection Christian) has been named as an 2026 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) Baseball First-Team All-Academic Team selection as announced by the league office on Monday afternoon.

In addition to Ruby's first-team All-Academic selection, seven other ThunderWolves were named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.

To be eligible for First Team All-Academic consideration, a student-athlete must carry a 3.50 or above cumulative grade point average and must have been an active student-athlete at the institution for at least two consecutive semesters or three consecutive quarters.

The First-Team All-Academic members were voted on by the conference's Sports Information Directors and student-athletes not selected onto the First Team, and who carry a 3.30 cumulative GPA or higher, automatically qualify for the Honor Roll. The SIDs weren't allowed to vote for their own student-athletes.

Ruby was one of 13 players named to the All-Academic Baseball Team as Colorado School of Mines senior outfielder Alex Dunagan was named the league's Baseball Academic Player of the Year as he carries a 4.0 GPA in Mechanical Engineering.

Colorado School of Mines led the way with four first team selections, while Colorado Mesa had thee selections and UCCS had two players selected. CSU Pueblo, Colorado Christian, New Mexico Highlands, and Regis each had one player earn first team accolades.

Ruby, who carries a 3.63 cumulative GPA in Computer Information Systems, earns his first career first team All-Academic spot after being named a First-Team All-RMAC selection and a Second-Team NCBWA All-South Central Region selection after being third on the team in both innings pitched (53.0) and strikeouts (36) and was tied for fifth in appearances with 13. He also made eight starts and was 2-2 with a 5.09 ERA and walked just 20 batters on the season.

During the 2026 season, Ruby had five or more strikeouts in six of his 13 outings, including a season-high five strikeouts against Regis and Adams State. In RMAC play, he posted a 1-1 record and a 5.60 ERA in eight appearances, six of them starts. In 35.1 innings, he allowed 47 hits, 26 runs (22 earned runs), while striking out 19 and walking 14.

The Pack players named to the 2026 RMAC Baseball Academic Honor Roll are:

Jason Arriola (Jr., C/INF, Riverside, Calif.) / 3.47 GPA – Criminology & Sociology
Dominic Corgiat (Sr., P, Brookfield, Ill.) / 3.45 GPA – Business Management
JJ Fontana (Jr., C./UTL, Fort Collins, Colo.) / 3.79 GPA – Exercise Science
Cooper Latino (Sr., OF, Parker, Colo.) / 3.41 GPA – Computer Information Systems
Cody Macias (Sr., C, San Diego, Calif.) / 3.43 GPA – Exercise Science
Jake Olguin-Pacheco (Sr., P, Denver, Colo.) / 3.58 GPA – Exercise Science
Alex Oliver (Sr., P, Grove, Okla.) / 3.74 GPA – Economics/Finance

Arriola, Fontana, Latino, Macias, Olguin-Pacheco and Ruby were repeat RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll selections from 2025, while Olguin-Pacheco and Ruby earned RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll honors in 2024.