Missouri State's Michael Breshears and Travis Mack have been voted to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Men's Track and Field/Cross Country team, after earning Academic All-District First Team honors. Breshears was named to the All-America first team for the second straight year, while Mack earned second team honors for the first time. 

Breshears, who has just completed his junior year at MSU, claimed his first individual conference title at the 2005 State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Cross Country Championship. His winning 8K time of 24:12.32 ranks third on MSU's list of all-time top performances. At the 2006 Valley Indoor Championship, Breshears finished 12th in the 5,000-meter run in 15:27.37 and 13th in the 3,000-meter run with at time of 8:45.21. In the 2006 outdoor season, he finished third in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 14:51.51 and third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a season-best time of 9:02.86 at the league meet. At the NCAA outdoor regional meet, Breshears placed 18th in the steeplechase in 9:12.28. Breshears holds a cumulative 4.00 grade-point average in administrative management.

Mack, an MSU graduate student, has maintained a 4.00 grade-point average throughout his college career. He is working towards his master of business administration and has earned a B.S. in management with an entrepreneurship emphasis. Mack placed fifth in the 800-meter run at the 2006 MVC Indoor Championship with a time of 1:55.29. In his final outdoor season, Mack finished third in the 800-meter run at the Mississippi State Bulldog Invitational with a personal-best time of 1:52.14, as well as placing 11th in the event at the conference championship.