ROLLA, Mo. – With the 2019-20 athletic season completed, we want to take a look back at the past decade and determine the all-decade teams for the Miner squads during the course of the 2010s.  Today's installment in this series will look at the top women's track & field performers over the last decade.

Individuals listed are placed at one individual event, listing five runners, two hurdlers, three horizontal jumpers, two high jumpers, three pole vaulters, five throwers and two multi-event competitors.
 

	Runner: Paige Kruse (2010-12) -- Kruse had five finishes among the top five in running events at the GLVC Championships during her career, including fourth place showings in the 800 meters at the 2011 indoor meet and at the 2010 and 2012 GLVC Outdoor Championships.  She was also part of three 4x400-meter relay teams that recorded second place finishes at the conference level.
	Runner: Rachael Lawal (2013-16) -- During her four seasons at S&T, Lawal – either on an individual basis or as part of a relay team – had top-eight finishes on 16 occasions at GLVC championship meets.  She was part of three 4x400-meter relay teams that finished second at the conference meet, while also recording a fourth place performances in the 400-meters during the 2015 GLVC Outdoor Championships to highlight her individual efforts.
	Runner: Aubrey Moore (2010-11) – Moore captured three GLVC championships during her final two seasons at S&T, winning consecutive outdoor 400-meter titles in 2010 and 2011 and also winning the 2011 indoor championship in the 400.  Her indoor time of 56.37 that won the 2011 title was the fastest in the GLVC in eight seasons.  The holder of five school records in the sprints at S&T, Moore also won All-America honors during her S&T career in the 400-meters where she holds all of the top five times both indoors and outdoors.
	Runner: Megan Schulte (2014-18) – Schulte won the GLVC outdoor title in the steeplechase in 2018 – becoming the first S&T runner to win the steeplechase in the GLVC – and also earned seven other additional top-eight finishes at conference meets during her career.  Besides winning the steeplechase in 2018, Schulte also placed sixth in the 1,500-meters and eighth in the 5,000-meters to go along with an eighth place showing in the mile during the indoor season.  Schulte is also the only Miner to earn All-GLVC honors in cross country on three occasions and has the two fastest steeplechase marks in program history.
	Runner: Hannah Shearer (Conroe, TX/The Woodlands Christian Academy) (2018-19) – Shearer earned two top-eight finishes during her freshman season at the GLVC Indoor Championships, finishing eighth in the 3,000-meters individually and fifth as part of the distance medley relay team.  She posted her highest conference finish at the 2019 outdoor meet with a third place showing in the steeplechase, where she has three of the top five performances in S&T history.  Shearer has also earned All-GLVC honors in cross country, landing that honor in her freshman year in the fall of 2017.
	Hurdler: Anne Massey (2015-18) – Massey posted a dozen top-eight finishes during her Miner career in a number of events, which included five top-eight showings in the hurdles.  She placed fourth in the 100-meter hurdles at the 2018 GLVC Championships and in the 60-meter hurdles at the indoor meet in 2017, while also posting top-eight finishes in the pentathlon, triple jump, high jump and 4x100-meter relay during her S&T career.  She set the school record in the indoor 55-meter hurdles of 8.55 seconds and holds two of the top five all-time marks in the 100-meter hurdles.
	Hurdler: Katlyn Meier (2012-15) – Meier was the GLVC outdoor champion in the 400-meter hurdles in the 2015 season and also recorded 19 top-eight finishes at conference meets during the course of her career.  In addition to her conference title, Meier finished second on three 4x400-meter relay teams and had a third place showing as part of the Miners' 4x100-meter relay at the 2015 GLVC Outdoor Championships.  In the course of winning the 400-hurdles title, she set the school record in the event at 1:01.65.
	Jumper: Mary Ann Bradshaw (2011-14) – Bradshaw was the GLVC's pentathlon champion in 2013, but also carved out a solid career in the jumping events at S&T.  She set the indoor school record in the triple jump in her junior year with a leap of 37-0½, while also holding marks among the top five in the indoor and outdoor long jump and outdoor triple jump.  Besides winning the pentathlon title, Bradshaw recorded second place showings in the indoor triple jump in 2012 and part of four relay teams; she scored in jumping events on nine occasions at GLVC meets in her career.
​	Jumper: Bessie Mullins (2014-15) – Mullins posted eight scoring performances in her two seasons with the Miners, highlighted by her second place finishes in the indoor triple jump and outdoor long jump in 2015.  She also placed third in the triple jump that season at the GLVC Outdoor Championships and added a fourth place showing in the indoor long jump in 2014.  Mullins holds the school's indoor long jump record with a leap of 19-0.
	Jumper: Sadye Wichmann (2010-13) – Wichmann captured the triple jump title at the 2011 GLVC Outdoor Championships as a freshman and went on to record scoring performances in the long jump and triple on five additional occasions over the balance of her career.  She took fifth in the indoor triple jump in 2011.
	High Jump: Tamara McCaskill (2010) – McCaskill captured All-America honors in the high jump following the 2010 season, when she finished second at the NCAA Division II Championships.  She also placed second at the GLVC Outdoor Championships in that campaign and her clearance of 5-8½ is the best in school history in outdoor track & field, a mark she reached at both of her national appearances (she also went in 2009 and finished third).
	High Jump: Skyler Ruszkowski (League City, TX/Clear Falls) (2016-19) – The holder of the indoor high jump record at 5-10 ¾, Ruszkowski earned All-America honors in the 2019 indoor season with a seventh place finish at the NCAA Division II Championships.  She won the GLVC's indoor pentathlon title that season and was named as the conference's indoor Field Athlete of the Year in the process.  Ruszkowski, who made four appearances at national meets during her S&T career, finished in the top three in the high jump at all four of her GLVC indoor meets and also had a second place finish at the 2019 GLVC Outdoor Championships.
	Pole Vault: Taylor Cipicchio (2011-14) – Cipicchio won three GLVC titles in the pole vault – winning back-to-back outdoor championships from 2013 and 2014 – and had an outstanding 2014 season as she swept the pole vault titles and earned All-America honors in both the indoor and outdoor seasons.  She tied for fourth in the indoor pole vault at the 2014 NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, then finished fourth at the national outdoor meet later in the calendar year.  She is one of two Miners to clear the four-meter mark in the event in the outdoor season.
	Pole Vault: Molly Clement (2011-15) – Clement captured two pole vault championships at the conference level during her career, winning the outdoor title in 2011 and the indoor championship in 2012.  She was a top-four finisher in the event at all eight GLVC championship events she competed in, including three second place showings and a pair of third place finishes.
	Pole Vault: Amanda Wetzel (Keller, TX/Keller) (2016-19) – Wetzel was a four-time GLVC champion in the pole vault in her S&T career, sweeping the indoor and outdoor championships in 2016 and 2017.  In the 2017 season, she set the school record for both the indoor (12-1¼) and outdoor (13-5 ¼) seasons and went on to record a third place finish at the NCAA Division II Championships to match the second-best finish ever by a Miner in an event at a national meet.  She is the only Miner to clear four meters in the pole vault in two different meets during her career.
	Throws: Brittany Moore (Fairfax, VA/Zama American) (2018-19) – Moore established a new school record in the hammer throw during her sophomore season at S&T, posting a mark of 149-8 in the event.  She currently holds three of the top five marks in that event in program history.
	Throws: Jessica Rhoads (Holts Summit, MO/Jefferson City) (2019) – Rhoads had a pair of top-eight finishes at the 2019 GLVC Outdoor Championships, placing sixth in the discus throw and seventh in the shot put.  She has the second-best outdoor shot put mark in school hstory and has marks among the top five in all of the outdoor throwing events as well as the indoor shot put.
	Throws: Elizabeth Robinson (2014-16) – Robinson recorded the Miners' best performances in the shot put and discus in each of her three seasons in the program and also had the team's top showings in the hammer throw in the final two.
	Throws: Christine Schmid (2011-14) – During her four seasons at S&T, Schmid established a school record in the hammer throw (record has since been broken), a performance that still ranks as the second-best in school history.  Schmid also has one of the top five all-time marks in the indoor weight throw.
	Throws: Sydnee Schram (2012-15) – Schram recorded the best mark by an S&T javelin thrower in all four seasons in which she competed and also earned a top-eight finish in the event by taking sixth at the 2015 GLVC Outdoor Championships.  Schram also competed as a pole vaulter for the Miners.
	Multi-Event: Camille Baker (Knoxville, TN/Knoxville Catholic HS) (2015-19) – Baker became the first member of the women's track & field program to earn All-America honors in the multi-events, finishing sixth in the indoor pentathlon at the 2019 NCAA Division II Championships.  She had five top-two finishes in her career in GLVC championship events in the multi-event competitions, winning both the indoor and outdoor titles in 2017 and taking second in both 2019 meets and the 2016 outdoor season.  In addition to her exploits in the multi-events, Baker also recorded eighth additional top-eight finishes in individual events during her standout career.
	Multi-Event: Lindsay Crutcher (2010-12) – Crutcher, a local product, captured the GLVC title in the outdoor heptathlon in 2012 after finishing second in the multi-events a year earlier.  She also had a fourth place showing in the indoor pentathlon in 2012 and added a seventh place finish in the open long jump during the 2011 outdoor season.