Jordan Henry has added one more honor for the 2007-08 season as he was named today to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America team for track and field.

Henry, who was named last week as the "Scholar-Athlete of the Year" in men's track and field by the Great Lakes Valley Conference, was selected to the second team on the Academic All-America squad. He was one of nine NCAA Division II student-athletes chosen to the three-team squad for the recently completed campaign.

During the year, Henry earned two All-America awards in the pole vault, won the conference championship at both the indoor and outdoor league meets and later earned first-team academic all-district honors.

Henry, a junior from St. Charles, Mo., took fourth in the pole vault competition at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships to wrap up a season in which he was the national runner-up in the pole vault during the indoor season and was the Great Lakes Valley Conference champion in both the indoor and outdoor league championships.

In addition, he established new school records in the event with clearances of 17 feet in the outdoor season -- making him the first S&T pole vaulter to ever clear that mark -- and 16-10 3/4 indoors which he cleared to earn his second place finish at the national meet. He has won three All-America awards during his career as a Miner.

Henry is majoring in electrical engineering at Missouri S&T.

Jordan Henry's list of accomplishments from the 2007-08 season continues to grow as he has been named as the "Scholar-Athlete of the Year" in men's track and field by the Great Lakes Valley Conference.

Henry earned the honor after a season where he earned two All-America awards in the pole vault, won the conference championship at both the indoor and outdoor league meets and later earned first-team academic all-district honors; the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America team will be announced next week.

Henry, a junior from St. Charles, Mo., took fourth in the pole vault competition at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships to wrap up a season in which he was the national runner-up in the pole vault during the indoor season and was the Great Lakes Valley Conference champion in both the indoor and outdoor league championships.

In addition, he established new school records in the event with clearances of 17 feet in the outdoor season -- making him the first S&T pole vaulter to ever clear that mark -- and 16-10 3/4 indoors which he cleared to earn his second place finish at the national meet. He has won three All-America awards during his career as a Miner.

Henry is majoring in electrical engineering at Missouri S&T. He is the third student-athlete from Missouri S&T to earn the league's scholar-athlete award since the institution joined the conference in 2005, following Becca Kueny (women's track in 2006) and Kandi Wieberg (softball in 2007) as the recipient.

Missouri S&T teams fare well on GLVC All-Academic team

In addition to Henry's scholar-athlete award, the Missouri S&T athletic program was well represented on the GLVC's All-Academic team that was released recently. A total of 110 student-athletes in the S&T program made the team, which is awarded to those with at least a 3.2 cumulative grade point average with two semesters at the university or at least a 3.4 average in the last two semesters.

Of the 110 from Missouri S&T, 17 members of the men's track and field team met the criteria for the award, while 16 from the men's soccer team and 15 from the baseball team were honored. S&T also had 12 in women's track and field, 11 in women's soccer, 10 in women's basketball, nine in softball, eight in men's cross country and seven from the volleyball team that made the team, as well as three from the men's basketball team and two from the women's cross country squad.

Only individuals from sports where a conference championship is conducted by the GLVC is eligible for the all-academic team.

A complete list of the 2007-08 recipients can be found by clicking here

Seniors Mark Chamberlain and David Calcara, who were named last month to the academic all-district team, were both selected to the at-large All-America squad, which encompasses all sports that do not have a team of its own. Chamberlain was a first-team selection to the team while Calcara was named to the second team.

Chamberlain and Calcara both earned All-America honors in the pool during the season to help the Miners finish as the national runner-up at the NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships.

Chamberlain, who is from Lake Jackson, Texas, posted individual times of 21.00 in the 50-yard freestyle, 47.10 in the 100-free, 50.88 in the 100-butterfly and was part of four relays teams that had seasonal bests during the 2008 season. At this year's national meet, he earned four All-America awards to give him 15 for his career

An applied mathematics major who has been named to three all-academic teams by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America and New South Intercollegiate Swimming Conference, Chamberlain earned his four All-America awards as part of relay teams in the 200- and 400-medley relays as well as the 200- and 400-yard freestyle.

Calcara, who is majoring in biological sciences, recorded times of 57.14 seconds in the 100-yard breaststroke and 2:03.04 in the 200-breaststroke to earn All-America honors in those events at the 2008 NCAA meet. He was seventh in the 200-breaststroke after taking 12th in the 100-breaststroke.

A native of Olympia, Wash., Calcara earned two All-America awards in his junior year and has also earned all-academic honors from the NSISC.

Chamberlain and Calcara were among eight NCAA Division II student-athletes named to the Academic All-America squad from the college division out of a total of 44 on the three teams.

Juniors Taylor Hahn and Jamie Statler, both of whom compete in the pole vault and other sprint and jumping events, were selected to the second team for District VII.

Hahn, a chemistry major at Missouri S&T, repeated as the Great Lakes Valley Conference champion in the pole vault during the indoor season, then finished second at the conference's outdoor meet in May. During the course of the 2008 season, Hahn established new school records in the pole vault with marks of 11-8 indoors and 11-9 3/4 outdoors, which also made the provisional qualifying standard for the national meet.

The junior from Salem, Ill., who earned three GLVC "Athlete of the Week" awards during the year, is also a member of the Alpha Phi Omega and Psi Chi honor societies at S&T.

Statler, who hails from St. Charles., Mo., finished third in the pole vault during both the indoor and outdoor conference meets in 2008. She also earned GLVC "Athlete of the Week" honors during the season after her clearance of 11-5 3/4 made the NCAA Division II provisional qualifying standard. Statler also cleared 11-6 1/4 during the outdoor season.

A biological sciences major at S&T, Statler is a member of the Alpha Chi Sigma and Phi Eta Sigma honor societies.

Jordan Henry has landed another honor for the 2007-08 season, but this one comes for his work in the classroom along with his accomplishments on the track.

Henry, a junior from St. Charles, Mo., was named Thursday to the ESPN the Magazine academic all-district first team for the recently completed campaign. The selection to the first team makes him eligible for Academic All-America honors which will be announced later this month.

Henry took fourth in the pole vault competition at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships to wrap up a season in which he was the national runner-up in the pole vault during the indoor season and was the Great Lakes Valley Conference champion in both the indoor and outdoor league championships.

In addition, he established new school records in the event with clearances of 17 feet in the outdoor season -- making him the first S&T pole vaulter to ever clear that mark -- and 16-10 3/4 indoors which he cleared to earn his second place finish at the national meet. He has won three All-America awards during his career as a Miner.

Henry is majoring in electrical engineering at Missouri S&T.

Kandi Wieberg, who established numerous records during her four-season playing career at Missouri S&T, has been selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America second team for the recently completed 2008 season.

Wieberg, a civil engineering major at S&T who was named to the 2007 academic team as well, finished the year with a .320 batting average, 10 home runs and 17 runs batted in from the leadoff spot in the lineup. She also had a .440 on-base percentage and .567 slugging percentage to go along with a team-high 16 stolen bases; her 32 walks set a new S&T single-season record and she is ranked among the national leaders in walks per game.

She completed her four-year career with the Lady Miners as the holder or co-holder of 13 records at Missouri S&T. She stands atop the all-time lists for doubles with 49, home runs with 34, runs scored with 169 and runs batted in with 105 and her 223 hits are second on the all-time list at S&T.

Wieberg was an All-America selection on the field as a junior as she was named to both the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and Daktronics All-America squads in a season where she was selected as the "Player of the Year" in the Great Lakes Valley Conference and as the "Student-Athlete of the Year" for softball in the GLVC. She is a two-time selection to the All-GLVC first team and all-region squads at second base.

Jordan Henry, who was the national runner-up during the indoor season, added a fourth place finish in the event for the outdoor season with a clearance of 16-4 in the finals of the event, while sophomore Peter Hollenbeck ended up in a tie for sixth place by clearing 16-feet.

The finishes among the top eight by Henry and Hollenbeck landed each of them All-America awards from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

Henry cleared the opening height of 16-feet on his second try, then went over at 16-4 on his first effort. However, he was unable to make the clearance at 16-8 as one of the four competitors remaining in the competition at that time.

Hollenbeck also cleared the opening height on his second attempt, but missed all three tries at 16-4, which was just a shade over his personal best mark of 16-3 1/2 that got him into the national meet. The 16-foot clearance landed Hollenbeck in a four-way tie for sixth place.

Grand Valley State's Bryant Wilson took the national championship in the event by clearing 17-feet with fewer misses than Ashand's Dan Tierney, who also hit the 17-foot mark but had four misses to Wilson's three in the competition.

McCaskill cleared 5-5 to end up tied for the 11th spot with a quartet of competitiors. She made her first two jumps of the night at 5-3 and 5-5, but was unable to clear the bar at 5-7.

She finished tied with UC San DIego's Linda Rainwater, Grand Valley State's Maegen Doyen, Ashland's Abby Kacsandi and Abilene Christian's Jessica Withrow.

Lincoln's Notoya Thompson took the national title in the event with a clearance of 5-9 1/4. She was one of three competitors to make the winning height, but had fewer misses in the event than the other two.

Seniors David Calcara and Mark Chamberlain were both selected to the at-large squad, which encompasses all sports that do not have a team of its own. Both earned All-America honors in the pool during the season to help the Miners finish as the national runner-up at the NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships.

Chamberlain, who is from Lake Jackson, Texas, posted individual times of 21.00 in the 50-yard freestyle, 47.10 in the 100-free, 50.88 in the 100-butterfly and was part of four relays teams that had seasonal bests during the 2008 season. At this year's national meet, he earned four All-America awards to give him 15 for his career

An applied mathematics major who has been named to three all-academic teams by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America and New South Intercollegiate Swimming Conference, Chamberlain earned his four All-America awards as part of relay teams in the 200- and 400-medley relays as well as the 200- and 400-yard freestyle.

Calcara, who is majoring in biological sciences, recorded times of 57.14 seconds in the 100-yard breaststroke and 2:03.04 in the 200-breaststroke to earn All-America honors in those events at the 2008 NCAA meet. He was seventh in the 200-breaststroke after taking 12th in the 100-breaststroke.

A native of Olympia, Wash., Calcara earned two All-America awards in his junior year and has also earned all-academic honors from the NSISC.

The latest signees are Jazmine Bell, a guard from Cincinnati State Technical College; Jaysa Blackwell, a guard from Doniphan, Mo.; and Kylee Grant, a guard from Illinois Central College. They join early signees Jenny Dorman, Courtney Kemp and Brittany Percival as the newcomers to the Lady Miner roster next season; S&T is also expected to have the services of Julie Meyer, who signed with the volleyball team, at the conclusion of that season.

JAZMINE BELL, a 5-7 guard from Euclid High School in Euclid, Ohio: Bell is transferring to Missouri S&T from Cincinnati State, where she averaged 12.7 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 2.3 steals per game last season. She shot just over 40 percent from the field and 72 percent at the free throw line for the Lady Surge as they finished with a record of 22-9. She was a second-team all-conference player in the 2007-08 season and earned the league’s “Player of the Week” award during the course of the season. She averaged 13.7 points, 6.1 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2.4 steals a game in her freshman season.

In high school, Bell was named as her team’s most valuable player in her senior year and played all four seasons at the varsity level, earning the team’s top freshman honor along the way.

"Jazmine is a combination guard that we're looking at as a point guard," Eads said. "She is very quick and athletic and has proven that she can score based on her numbers at the junior college level. Jazmine played against some very good competition in junior college and that should help her make the adjustment to playing here at Missouri S&T."

JAYSA BLACKWELL, a 5-4 guard from Doniphan High School in Doniphan, Mo.: Blackwell earned all-district and all-conference honors following the 2007-08 season after averaging 10.1 points a game, while dishing out 93 assists and making 35 steals. She also earned all-region laurels and was named to the all-tournament team at the Lady Royal Classic while playing for her father, Jimbo.

In addition, Blackwell has also played on the Missouri Rockets club team that won the MAYB national championship in 2008. A teammate on that squad was Meyer, who will join the Lady Miner team after the volleyball season.

"Jaysa is a true point guard who is probably the closest thing to a Jaime Forsberg prototype," Eads said. "She is very quick and handles the ball extremely well and is also a fierce competitor having played for her father in high school for four years. Jaysa knows the game and has been coached very well."

KYLEE GRANT, a 5-4 yard from Richwoods High School in Peoria, Ill.: Grant is transferring into the Missouri S&T program from Illinois Central College, where she was a first-team all-region player and most valuable player in the Region 24 Tournament that her team won. On the season, she averaged 9.8 points, 3.8 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 1.6 steals per game while shooting 31 percent from three-point range and 75 percent at the free throw line for a team that was 23-9.

As a freshman, Grant averaged 6.8 points, 3.5 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.7 steals per game while shooting 32 percent from behind the arc and 75 percent at the line. In high school, she was an honorable mention all-state selection and first-team all-conference pick as a senior a year after helping lead her team to an undefeated record and state championship; she earned second-team all-conference honors that year as well as in her sophomore season.

"Kylee is another player with a great basketball background," Eads said. "She was a true point guard at the junior college level and is a great passer -- possibly one of the best that we've had here in a while. She is a solid fundamental player who can also shoot the ball from long range and like Jazmine, has gained valuable experience playing in a very competitive junior college league."

Missouri S&T finished the 2007-08 season with a record of 24-7 and reached the championship game of the NCAA Great Lakes Regional, where it lost to eventual national champion Northern Kentucky.

For the second season in a row, a member of the Missouri S&T softball team has landed a spot on the Daktronics Inc., All-America softball team.

After Kandi Wieberg made the initial Daktronics squad last spring, third baseman Kelsey Musselman was named to this season's third team on the team released over the weekend.

Musselman, the "Player of the Year" in both the Great Lakes region and Great Lakes Valley Conference in the 2008 season, was named to the squad after a season in which she led the Lady Miners with a .422 batting average -- which was good for second in the GLVC behind the .430 mark posted by Wisconsin-Parkside's Amanda Miller -- while leading the league in slugging percentage, on-base percentage and home runs.

Musselman had a school record 14 home runs on the year and drove in 47 runs, while posting a .755 slugging percentage and .500 on-base percentage. Her performance netted her two GLVC "Player of the Week" awards during the year and eventually first-team All-GLVC honors.

She is currently 12th in NCAA Division II for home runs per game and also ranks 35th for runs batted in per contest.

Musselman was named to the all-region first team on both the Daktronics squad, voted on by the sports information directors in NCAA Division II, and on the coaches team which is sponsored by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.

Lincoln Memorial's Sara Henn was the first-team selection at third base, while Miranda Campbell from eventual national runner-up Emporia State was named to the second team.

The Lady Miners finished the 2008 season with a 26-21 record and were third in the GLVC with a 17-9 mark.

The tryout, which is for prospective players who have completed their senior year of high school play or two years at a junior college, will begin at noon at the Miners' home field. Those taking part in the tryout will need to bring proper equipment, including footwear, to the event and will also need to have proof of a physical taken within the last six months.

For more information, contact head coach Todd DeGraffenreid at (573) 341-7506 or at degraff@mst.edu.