GOLDEN, Colo. – Colorado School of Mines student-athletes earned 94 degrees during the university's spring Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 8.
 
Current Orediggers and those who have exhausted their eligibility were honored in two different virtual ceremonies streamed live online. In total, 71 student-athletes earned bachelor's degrees and 23 others were conferred with master's degrees. Thanks to 29 degree recipients in December, 123 Oredigger student-athletes earned a silver diploma in the 2019-20 school year.
 
The class of 2020 proved incredibly accomplished in competition and in the classroom with 20 All-Americans and eight Academic All-Americans among them. Of the 94 degree recipients, 63 have been either on a RMAC championship team or won an individual conference title, 62 have been to the NCAA Championships on a team or individually, and 10 have been national champions.
 
Mines student-athletes in the class of 2020 earned numerous departmental honors as well. Track & field's Cierra DellaRova was the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering department's outstanding senior, and football's Scott Marshall earned the same honor for Economics & Business. Baseball's Walter Pennington was one of two seniors to win the William D. Waltman Award, presented to a graduate who has shown the utmost integrity, scholarship and citizenship in their collegiate career.
 
The Orediggers' 2020 President's Senior Scholar-Athletes were volleyball's Abby Tiesman and soccer's Jason Zobott. 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 Tiesman and Zobott hold a plethora of academic and athletic honors in their careers including Zobott's 2019 CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year and Tiesman's 2019 AVCA South Central Regional Player of the Year.
 
Several programs had multiple student-athletes earn advanced degrees led by six from men's and women's track & field and cross country including Ali Artzberger, Courtney Clark, Grant Colligan, Miller Kettle, Connor McLean, and Ben Schneiderman. Those six individuals boast a combined 16 All-America awards between cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field. Other programs with multiple master's recipients included swimming's three with the All-American swimming twins April Wood and Mia Wood along with Tyler Buck; football with four (Brandon Farmer, Riley Miller, Zach Peterson, Brockton Sterling), three from baseball (Jace Selsor, Sam Slusser, Ben Stinson), two each from men's basketball (Duke Douglas, Luke Golter) and men's soccer (Drew Johnson, Ben Overholt). Softball's Kara Jones, women's basketball's Anna Kollmorgen, and wrestling's Jake Feldman also completed advanced degrees. 
 
Additionally, over one-third of the student-athletes in the Mines class of 2020 graduated with honors based on their grade-point average. Twelve Oredigger student-athletes graduated cum laude, 14 more graduated magna cum laude and six obtained the highest level of honors, summa cum laude, for a total of 32 in the graduating class.
 
While the COVID-19 pandemic forced Commencement into a virtual format, the tradition of student-athletes leading the singing of "The Mining Engineer" fight song continued thanks to the efforts of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and their president Jacob Feldman (wrestling). A video of their performance closed both ceremonies.

The current and former Mines student-athletes who earned degrees in Spring 2020, and those scheduled to received them in August, are:
 

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BASEBALL
Lucas Ciacco (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Derek Daly (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
Ian Durgin (B.S. – Electrical Engineering)
Mikey Gangwish (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Nate Giefer (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Trevor Howard (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Walter Pennington (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Jace Selsor (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Management)
Sam Slusser (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Management)
Ben Stinson (M.S. – Quantitative Bioscience & Engineering)
 
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Duke Douglas (M.S. – Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Luke Golter (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Management)
 
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Nicole Archambeau (B.S. – Civil Engineering)
Heidi Hammond (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Anna Kollmorgen (M.S. – Hydrology)
 
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Jacob Bejarano (B.S. – Petroleum Engineering)
Zach Clark (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Grant Colligan (M.S. – Metallurgical & Materials Engineering)
Cason Cropp (B.S. – Engineering Physics)
Luc Hagen (B.S. – Metallurgical & Materials Engineering)
Brandon Hinkle (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Nassim Kabbara (B.S. – Chemical & Biochemical Engineering)
Miller Kettle (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Management)
Connor McLean (M.S. – Advanced Manufacturing)
Jake Mitchem (B.S. – Electrical Engineering)
Kyle Moran (B.S. – Computer Science)
John Reiley (B.S. – Chemical & Biochemical Engineering)
Ben Schneiderman (M.S. Metallurgical & Materials Engineering)
Derek Steele (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
Jared Tadla (B.S. – Geological Engineering)
Kevin Thompson (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
Joe Vandiver (B.S. – Metallurgical & Materials Engineering)
Vincent Workman (B.S. – Electrical Engineering)
 
WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Ali Artzberger (M.S. – Advanced Manufacturing)
Krista Carlo (B.S. – Geological Engineering)
Courtney Clark (M.S. – Materials Science)
Cierra DellaRova (B.S. – Metallurgical & Materials Engineering)
Brook Eberle (B.S. – Geological Engineering)
Maddie Geesen (B.S. – Computer Science)
Shea Zeman (B.S. – Environmental Engineering)
 
FOOTBALL
Scott Adams (B.S. – Civil Engineering)
Logan Braden (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Brandon Farmer (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Management)
Evan Gill (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Gabriel Kortz (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Scott Marshall (B.S. – Economics)
Riley Miller (M.S. – Computer Science)
Zach Peterson (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Management)
RJ Phillips (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Nate Renfrew (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Brockton Sterling (M.S. – Advanced Manufacturing)
Dewey Van Allen (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
 
GOLF
Tim Amundson (B.S. – Petroleum Engineering)
Nic Beno (B.S. – Civil Engineering)
Colin Dubnik (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
 
MEN'S SOCCER
Drew Johnson (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Management)
Ryan Mackey (B.S. – Chemical & Biochemical Engineering)
Ben Overholt (M.S. – Electrical Engineering)
Matthew Summerfield (M.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Jason Zobott (B.S. – Petroleum Engineering)
 
WOMEN'S SOCCER
Nicole LaTourette (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Shannon Mooney (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Audrey Shin (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Lindsey Tornabene (B.S. – Chemical Engineering)
 
SOFTBALL
Kelsey Buechler (B.S. – Environmental Engineering)
Kara Jones (M.S. – Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering)
Clara Larson (B.S. – Computer Science)
 
MEN'S SWIMMING
Iain Bisset (B.S. – Engineering Physics)
Tyler Buck (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Management)
Ian Kingsolver (B.S. – Engineering Physics)
Seamus Millett (B.S. – Civil Engineering)
Matthew Pollmiller (B.S. – Electrical Engineering)
Austin Rich (B.S. – Metallurgical & Materials Engineering)
Ben Topper (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
 
WOMEN'S SWIMMING
Yara Lima (B.S. – Chemical & Biochemical Engineering)
Audrey Miller (B.S. – Chemical & Biochemical Engineering)
Olivia Morley (B.S. – Chemical & Biochemical Engineering)
Madeleine Oakley (B.S. – Geological Engineering)
Daphne Williams (B.S. – Metallurgical & Materials Engineering)
April Wood (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Management)
Mia Wood (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Mangament)
 
VOLLEYBALL
Abby Tiesman (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
 
WRESTLING
Matt Lavengood (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
TJ Shelton (B.S. – Petroleum Engineering)
Drew Hinkle (B.S. – Electrical Engineering)
Jake Stogdill (B.S. – Civil Engineering)
Connor Ventura (B.S. – Electrical Engineering)
Jake Woods (B.S. – Civil Engineering)
Noah Ottum (B.S. – Engineering Physics)
Jake Feldman (M.S. – Engineering & Technology Management)
Taylor Gambill (B.S. – Metallurgical & Materials Engineering)
Robert Gambrell (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)
Logan Pleninger (B.S. – Chemical & Biochemical Engineering)
Anthony Spallino (B.S. – Mechanical Engineering)