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June 27,  2007

Jessica Selby named First-Team Academic All-American

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

To qualify for this award, a student-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. To be eligible for Academic All-American status, one must be a first-team Academic All-District selection.

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 the shot put and sixth in the 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 was a nominee for the MIAA's Ken B. Jones award, the conference's top honor presented to a student-athlete, as well as picking up her second-straight MSSU Female Athlete of the Year honor this year.