GOLDEN, Colo. - Colorado School of Mines student-athletes earned 89 degrees during the university's spring Commencement ceremonies on May 9 and 10.

Current Orediggers and those who have exhausted their eligibility walked across the stage during one of four ceremonies held at Lockridge Arena. In total, 78 student-athletes earned bachelor's degrees, 10 master's degrees, and one a doctorate. Combined with 32 degree recipients in December, 110 Mines student-athletes earned a silver diploma in the 2018-19 school year.

The Class of 2019 is an incredibly accomplished group, with 17 All-Americans and seven Academic All-Americans among them. Of the 89 degree recipients, 51 have been either on a RMAC championship team or won an individual title, 63 have been to the NCAA Championships on a team or individually, and four have been national champions. Two graduates - baseball's Joe Popp and cross country/track & field's Megan Wenham - were chosen as President's Senior Scholar Athlete Award recipients; the award is given to one male and one female graduating student-athlete who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement and the leadership qualities of an exemplary student-athlete. Both Popp and Wenham hold a bevy of academic and athletic honors in their careers including Academic All-America status in 2018.

Eleven Orediggers received advanced degrees including three members of the men's basketball team (Ben Clare, Joe Dellenbach, and Ben Sonnefeld) and two from football (Isaac Harker and Matthew King). The lone doctoral recipient was track & field star Mark Husted, a two-time national champion and six-time all-American. A triple Mines degree recipient with a bachelor's in electrical engineering, master's in energy systems and power electronics, and now doctorate in operations research, Husted was the 2010 Academic All-American of the Year in track & field after winning the NCAA outdoor 800m title; he was also on the 2009 indoor national champion distance medley relay and has served as an assistant coach for Mines cross country.

Another eleven Orediggers missed Commencement due to competition but earned degrees via video from President Paul Johnson, with 10 members of the Mines baseball team celebrating with a team ceremony Friday in Grand Junction at the RMAC Tournament. Golf's George Markham received his diploma after playing the first round of NCAA Regional Championships in Utah on Thursday.

As has become tradition, the student-athletes helped end each ceremony by leading the the crowd in "The Mining Engineer" fight song. The current and former Mines student-athletes who earned degrees in Spring 2019 are:
 

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BASEBALL
Daniel Ciraula (B.S. – Geophysical Engineering)
Jake Ekstrom (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
John Howard (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Trevor Kehe (B.S. – Metallurgical & Materials Engineering)
Colin Morris (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Owen Pigati (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Joe Popp (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Jared Rodriguez (B.S. – Electrical Engineering)
Jace Selsor (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Sam Slusser (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Ben Stinson (B.S. – Chemical and Biochemical Engineering)
Tyler Thomas (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Phil VanZale (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Colton Wardle (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)

MEN'S BASKETBALL
Ben Clare (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Management)
Joe Dellenbach (M.S. – Geology)
Luke Golter (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Ben Sonnefeld (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Management)

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Cassidy Budge (B.S. – Environmental Engineering)
Paige Husa (M.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Anna Kollmorgen (B.S. – Environmental Engineering)

MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Luke Arnsberger (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
Josh Hoskinson (M.S. – Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Mark Husted (Ph.D. – Operations Research with Engineering)
Miller Kettle (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Elias Limon (B.S. – Petroleum Engineering)
Trevor Lockman (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Ricardo Ocampo (B.S. – Chemical & Biochemical Engineering)
Triston Sisneros (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Austin Smith (B.S. – Petroleum Engineering)
Josh Evans (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Kara Burton (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Courtney Clark (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
Dallas Frisbie (B.S. – Metallurgical & Materials Engineering)
Sabine Lindler (B.S. – Electrical Engineering)
Megan Wenham (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)

FOOTBALL
Jimmy Bauer (B.S. – Geophysical Engineering)
Kyle Cox (B.S. – Petroleum Engineering)
Isaac Harker (M.S. – Mineral and Energy Economics)
James Hawn (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Matthew King (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Management)
Tyler Mahan (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
Ryan Manning (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Riley Miller (B.S. – Computer Science)
Zach Peterson (B.S. – Civil Engineering)
Joey Roselli (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)

GOLF
Taylor MacKay (M.S. – Petroleum Reservoir Systems)
George Markham (B.S. – Civil Engineering)
Tyler Quast (B.S. – Computer Science)

MEN'S SOCCER
John Haist (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
Drew Johnson (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Julian Kehe (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
Ben Overholt (B.S. – Electrical Engineering)
Aaron Safadi (B.S. – Chemical & Biochemical Engineering)
Matthew Summerfield (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)

WOMEN'S SOCCER
Acacia Ortiz (B.S. – Environmental Engineering)
Laya Rybicki (B.S. – Chemistry)
Hannah Stoner (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)

SOFTBALL
Kara Jones (B.S. – Chemical & Biochemical Engineering)
Boston Ludlow (B.S. – Metallurgical & Materials Engineering)
Maddie Rogers (B.S. – Computer Science)
Hallie Smith (B.S. – Petroleum Engineering)
Dani Valerio (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)

MEN'S SWIMMING
Tyler Buck (B.S. – Chemical & Biochemical Engineering)
Dominic Byrne (B.S. – Engineering Physics)
Jonathan Donehower (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Cort Hanson (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
Sam Knott (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Ross Lannen (B.S. – Computer Science)
Caleb Ring (B.S. – Geological Engineering)
Riley Silber (B.S. – Chemical & Biochemical Engineering)
Dom Smith (M.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Jordan Umrysh (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)

WOMEN'S SWIMMING
Carissa Anderson (B.S. – Geological Engineering)
Susan Fender (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
Gillian Wagner (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Abigail Wong (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
April Wood (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Mia Wood (B.S. – Engineering Physics)

VOLLEYBALL
LaRose Currie (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
Marina Hansen (B.S. – Civil Engineering)
Janice Jin (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)

WRESTLING
Noah Au-Yeung (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
John Crowley (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
Lukas Erickson (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Jake Feldman (B.S. – Metallurgical & Materials Engineering)
Ben Krantz (B.S. – Petroleum)
Brandon Saunders (M.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Keenan Willits (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)