ROLLA, Mo. – Two members of Missouri S&T's women's track & field team were selected today to the Capital One Academic All-America team for NCAA Division II for the 2014 season, as seniors Taylor Cipicchio (Highland, Ill./Highland) and Mary Ann Bradshaw (Jackson, Mo./Jackson) were chosen to the third team on that squad.

In addition to the selection of Cipicchio and Bradshaw to the academic squad, two members of the men's track & field team – Adriel Hawkins and Joseph Vellella – were also named today to give S&T a single-year record of eight selections for 2013-14.  S&T's prior selections were Timmy Kenny (men's soccer), Hayley Wright (volleyball), Bryce Foster (men's basketball and Capital One Academic All-America of the Year) and Keith Sponsler (swimming).

The eight Academic All-America selections for the 2013-14 campaign were the most of any school in the GLVC and fourth-most of any institution in NCAA Division II, trailing only Grand Valley State (15 selections), West Texas A&M (10) and Wingate (9).

Cipicchio had a standout senior season at S&T, earning All-America honors in both the indoor and outdoor campaigns and winning Great Lakes Valley Conference championships in the pole vault.  She earned a pair of fourth place finishes at the NCAA Division II Championship meets this season, tying for that spot at the indoor nationals before taking fourth outdoors with a school record clearance of 13-1½, marking the first-ever 13-foot clearance by a Lady Miner pole vaulter.

She captured both GLVC pole vault titles in 2014 by setting school and conference records in the process.  Cipicchio, who is majoring in mathematics at Missouri S&T, posted a top indoor mark of 12-8 during the year.

Bradshaw, who graduated in May from S&T with a bachelor's degree in geological engineering, was the recipient of the Gale Bullman Award after completing an outstanding career with school records in five events.  She earned All-GLVC honors as the anchor of the Lady Miners' 4x400-meter relay team that finished second at the GLVC Championships and also scored in two other events.

The winner of the pentathlon at the GLVC's indoor meet in 2013, Bradshaw holds the Lady Miners' multi-event records for both seaons as well as the standards for the outdoor 400-meter hurdles, indoor triple jump and as part of the indoor 4x400-meter relay team.

Cipicchio and Bradshaw are the sixth and seventh student-athletes from the S&T women's track & field program to earn Academic All-America honors and first since 2007 when Becca Kueny picked up the second of her two such awards.

MissourI S&T student-athletes have earned 78 Academic All-America awards in the program's history and 54 since 2000, the fifth-most of any institution at the NCAA Division II level.