ROLLA, Mo. – Two members of Missouri S&T's women's track & field team – Skyler Ruszkowski (League City, TX/Clear Falls) and Camille Baker (Knoxville, TN/Knoxville Catholic HS) – have been selected to compete at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships that will begin March 8 in Pittsburg, Kan.

Ruszkowski, who will be making her fourth overall appearance at the NCAA Championships and second at the indoor meet, earned an automatic berth in the high jump with a school record mark of 5-10¾.   That performance, which came at the facility where the national meet will take place, is tied for the best in the nation this season with Bellarmine's Yashira Rhymer-Stuart.

In her previous trips to the national meet, Ruszkowski tied for 12^th in the high jump in her most recent trip last spring at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, while also recording a 13^th place finish at the 2017 indoor championships and was 17^th in the event at the 2016 outdoor meet.

The high jump competition will take place at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 9.

Baker is heading to the national meet for the second time where she will compete in the pentathlon, the same event she competed in at the same location in 2017.   At that meet, she recorded the second-best performance in the women's multi-event competition in school history at the time with 3,511 points to finish in 14^th place.

This season, Baker's best mark in the pentathlon is the school record 3,662 points that she posted in the first meet of the season – also held at Pittsburg State – and she is coming off a second place finish in the pentathlon to Ruszkowski at last weekend's GLVC Championships.  Baker also set a school record in the 60-meter hurdles at the conference meet of 8.86 seconds; that event is the first of the five that will be contested in the multi-events.

The pentathlon competition, in which Baker is ranked eighth heading into the national meet, will take place on the opening day of the meet, starting with the 60-meter hurdles at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 8.  The top performance in the women's multi-events this season was recorded by Pittsburg State's Trace Mosby of 3,848 points.