South Dakota School of Mines junior pole vaulter Erica Keeble was named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Indoor Field Female Athlete of the Week Tuesday afternoon announced by the league office in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Keeble won the women's pole vault and also auto qualified for the NCAA Div. II Indoor Championships after clearing a height of 13-feet-3.5-inches Saturday at the Chadron State College Meet in Chadron, Nebraska. The junior is now tied for the second best mark in the nation and tied her own school record and set a new CSC Meet record as well.

"We've been quiet from competition for about a month, so it's really great to see Erica pick right up where she left off and match her personal best from last year this early in the indoor season," said Hardrocker track and field head coach Steven Johnson. "There are some really good things happening with our pole vaulters and I'm excited to see how the rest of the season progresses."

Keeble, who hold both the indoor and outdoor RMAC meet records as well as both record marks at SD Mines, is a Computer Science wth a minor in Applied Mathematics orginally from Nashville, Tennesee.