COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. --- The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference announced Indoor Track and Field All-Academic honors Tuesday where South Dakota School of Mines earned one First Team selection while 18 other Hardrockers were named the RMAC Honor Roll list.

The RMAC First Team All-Academic selections, were voted on by the conference's sports information directors. To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must carry a 3.30 cumulative grade point average and must have been an active student at the institution for at least two consecutive semesters or three consecutive quarters.

Hardrocker sophomore Erica Keeble earned RMAC All-Academic First Team honors after a stellar indoor season. The pole vaulter from De Pere, Wisconsin, was ranked third in the nation at the end of the season and earned a trip to NCAA Div. II Indoor Championships, won the event during the RMAC Indoor Championships and set a new meet record (3.95 meters) as well as a SD Mines record (4.05 meters). Keeble is a Computer Science and Applied Mathematics major with a 3.762 GPA.
All student-athletes that meet the requirements, but were not voted RMAC First Team, automatically qualify for the RMAC Honor Roll.

Members of the Hardrocker indoor track and field team that were named to the RMAC Honor Roll list include: senior Aaron Campbell, a jumper and hurdler from Sheridan, Wyo. (3.845 GPA); junior Ben Colvin, a distance runner from Kasson, Minn., majoring in Mechanical Engineering (3.724); junior Korder Cropsey,  a sprinter from Presho, S.D., majoring in Civil Engineering (3.726); senior Casey Skillingstad, a pole vaulter from Yankton, S.D., majoring in in Civil and Environmental Engineering (3.720); junior Chase Wood, a distance runner from Las Vegas, Nev., majoring in Chemical Engineering (3.393); junior Kevin Ptak, a sprinter from Allen Texas, majoring in Electrical Engineering (4.00); sophomore Joel Haas, a distance runner from Corvallis, Mont., majoring in Civil Engineering (3.865); sophomore Austin Hammer, a mid-distance runner from Mission, S.D., majoring in Metallurgical Engineering (3.396); senior Carter Kasuske, a jumper from Wentworth, S.D., majoring in Electrical Engineering (3.300); sophomore Warren Minerich, a thrower from Paonia, Colo.;  majoring in Mining Engineering (3.326); junior Darren Nissen, a jumper from Wausau, Neb., majoring in Mechanical Engineering (3.597); junior Westley Siebdrath, a thrower from La Quinta, Calif., majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering (3.336); senior Kevin Thompson, a sprinter from Ft. Lewis, Wash., majoring in Industrial Engineering (4.00); junior Kayla Gagen, a distance runner and javelin thrower from Livingston, Mont., majoring in Mechanical Engineering (3.824); senior Erica Westerman, a distance runner from Yankton, S.D., majoring in Chemical Engineering (3.882); senior Karissa Kjenstad, a mid-distance runner from Tacoma, Wash., majoring in Chemical Engineering (3.375); sophomore Tana Dahlberg, a thrower and jumper from Buffalo, Wyo., majoring in Applied Biological Sciences (3.530); and sophomore Ryan Weiss, a mid-distance runner from Ames, Iowa, majoring in Industrial Engineering (3.791).

"I get a great sense of pride when I get the opportunity to watch our scholar-athletes improve and better themselves in competition as well as grow and develop as young men and women on an academic level," said Hardrocker track and field head coach Steve Johnson said. "We have some remarkable individuals in our program and it's great to have them recognized at the conference level."