COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. --- South Dakota Mines pole vaulter Erica Keeble was named to the Women's Indoor Track and Field Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference All-Academic First Team, announced Thursday from the league office in Colorado Springs, Colorado, while 20 other Hardrocker thinclads earned RMCA Honor Roll accolades.
 
Keeble, a senior from Nashville, Tennessee, earned her second consecutive RMAC All-Academic First Team honor after an outstanding indoor season and a 4.0 GPA.
 
First Team All-Academic members, 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 (GPA) and must have been an active student at the institution for at least two consecutive semesters or three consecutive quarters.
 
Keeble earned NCAA Div. II All-American status after finishing in sixth place at the NCAA Div. II Indoor Championships earlier this month. Keeble cleared a height of 13-feet-3.25-inches. The Computer Science major also won her third-consecutive RMAC Indoor women's pole vault title after clearing a height of 13-7.5, which also gave her NCAA Div. II South Central All-Region honors. She holds the RMAC Indoor Meet record as well as the South Dakota Mines school record. She also picked up an RMAC Athlete of the Week Honor season.
 
"Erica is an exceptional scholar-athlete and it's great to see her continue to be recognized at the conference level," said Hardrocker track and field head coach Steve Johnson. "For her to excel in such a competitive conference like the RMAC as well as excel in the classroom is exceptional. Our program is lucky to have her."
 
The following Hardrocker track and field athletes were named to the 2021 RMAC Honor Roll. To earn a spot on the list, a student-athlete must carry a minimum 3.30 cumulative grade-point average (GPA) and must have been an active student at the institution for at least two consecutive semesters.
 

Men's Team
Name	Yr.	Hometown	GPA	Major
Joel Haas	Sr.	Corvallis, MT	3.750	Civil Engineering
Austin Hammer	Sr.	Mission, SD	3.933	Metallurgical Engineering
Steven Nolasco	Sr.	Garfield, NJ	3.45	Business in Technology
Jared Wilson	Sr.	Dalbo, MN	3.824	Chemical Engineering
Andrew Ferris	Jr.	Lancaster, OH	3.769	Civil Engineering
Erick Colman	Jr.	Pierre, SD	3.538	Mechanical Engineering
Ian Cone	So.	Sterling, CO	3.440	Mechanical Engineering
Warren Minerich	So.	Paonia, CO	4.0	Mining Engineering
Dakin Nolan	So.	Brandon, WI	3.722	Chemical Engineering
Grant Bauer	So.	Highlands Ranch CO	3.75	Chemical Engineering
Brett Flerchinger	So.	Boise, ID	4.0	Mathematics
Women's Team
Name	Yr.	Hometown	GPA	Major
Kamryn Scully	So.	Deer Lodge, MT	4.0	Civil Engineering
Alyssa Franke	So.	Rapid City, SD	4.0	Biomedical Engineering
Laramie Giles	Jr.	Sioux Falls, SD	3.373	Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
Margaret Thompson	Jr.	Deer Lodge, MT	4.0	Mechanical Engineering
Taylor Bright	Jr.	Casper, WY	4.0	Applied Biological Sciences; Biomedical Engineering Masters
Nadia Kaczmarz	So.	La Grange Park Ill.	3.530	Biomedical Engineering
Jaycie Stubbs	So.	Platte County, MO	4.0	Electrical Engineering
Ryan Weiss	Jr.	Ames Iowa	3.667	Industrial Engineering
Adeline Wilson	So.	Aurora, CO	3.786	Computer Science

 
"Making the RMAC Honor Roll is quite an accomplishment, but to have 20 Hardrockers earn these accolades really shows that we are recruiting the right type of scholar-athlete into our program and to our institution," Johnson added. "As a coach it is a great feeling that we are not only preparing them to have success at their next competition, but also preparing them to have success once they leave South Dakota Mines."