FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 8,  2007

Selby named Academic All-District

Joplin, Mo. -- Missouri Southern junior thrower Jessica Selby has been named first team Academic All-District by ESPN the Magazine and the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

To be nominated for this award, an athlete has to maintain a cumulative 3.2 GPA, while displaying athletic success, as well. Selby has maintained a perfect 4.00 GPA in communications at Southern.

Selby helped lead the Southern women's contingent into the NCAA Division II national meet last month and picked up her first two outdoor All-American honors, finishing fourth in both the shot put and hammer throw.

The three-time defending MIAA indoor and outdoor shot put champion had the nation's best shot put and hammer throw going into the event. Selby won the MIAA titles in the shot and hammer this year throwing a school record 185 feet in the hammer. She added to her school records when she broke her own mark in the shot put with a toss of 49 feet, 10 inches at ESU. She is a two-time defending outdoor MIAA Hammer Throw Champ, as well.

Selby also was a nominee for the MIAA's Ken B. Jones award, as well as picking up her second-straight MSSU Female Athlete of the Year honor.

Selby's name will now go on the national ballot for Academic All-American consideration. She was a third-team selection last year as a sophomore.