GOLDEN, Colo. – Colorado School of Mines student-athletes and coaches earned 104 degrees during the university's spring Commencement ceremonies on May 13 and 14 at Marv Kay Stadium.

Current Orediggers and those who had exhausted their eligibility were honored across three ceremonies. In total, 102 student-athletes and two coaches earned 71 bachelor's, 33 master's, and one doctoral degree; all 18 Mines programs were represented. Combined with December graduates, Mines student-athletes earned 136 degrees in 2020-21. 
 
The Class of 2021 was a special one in competition and in the classroom, with 14 All-Americans, five Academic All-Americans, 63 team and individual RMAC champions, 64 NCAA qualifiers, and four national champions among them.

Oredigger student-athletes earned numerous departmental honors as well, including two departmental most outstanding senior honors for cross country/track & field's Melina Endsley (metallurgical & materials engineering) and softball's Sydney Marchando (chemical engineering). Marchando also earned the prestigious William D. Waltman Award, presented to a graduate who has shown the utmost integrity, scholarship and citizenship in their collegiate career, marking the second straight spring a student-athlete has won the honor.

The Orediggers' 2021 President's Senior Scholar-Athletes were Marchando and baseball's Toby Scoles. 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 Marchando and Scoles distinguished themselves on the diamond, and also provided critical off-the-field leadership in Mines' Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
 
Twenty-eight graduates earned honors with nine graduating summa cum laude, nine magna cum laude, and 10 cum laude.
 
Two coaches also earned master's degrees: football's wide receivers/tight ends coach Ryan Diedrick received an M.S. in Mineral and Energy Economics, and defensive assistant Nate Renfrew his M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management. The department's sole Ph.D. was received by former two-sport star Dr. Seun Ogunmodede in Operations Research; Ogunmodede played both soccer and track & field at Mines, including two all-America honors in track & field.
 
The current and former Mines student-athletes and coaches earning degrees this May and at the end of the summer 2021 term are:
 
 
BASEBALL
Tyler Blomster - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Gabe Garvens - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Jason Hall - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Drew Hill - B.S. in Petroleum Engineering
Trevor Howard - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Chris Okamoto - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Christian Rooney - M.S. in GIS & Geoinformatics
Toby Scoles - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
 
FOOTBALL
Matt Armendariz - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Jimmy Bauer - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Grant Buss - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Ryan Diedrick - M.S. in in Mineral and Energy Economics
Evan Gill - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Robert Gonzalez - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Dominic Hathaway - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Garrett Hyles - B.S. in Petroleum Engineering
Josh Johnston - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Anthony Kantzabedian - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Gabriel Kortz - M.S. in Advanced Manufacturing
Nate Main - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Scott Marshall - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Jack McAdams - B.S. in Petroleum Engineering
Cap McClure - B.S. in Petroleum Engineering
Mack Minnehan - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Christian Mueller - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Josh Odom - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
RJ Phillips - M.S. in Advanced Manufacturing
Nate Renfrew - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Michael Zeman - B.S. in Petroleum Engineering
 
GOLF
Tim Amundson - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
 
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Mason Baker - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Austin Means - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
 
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Jacob Bejarano - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Grant Colligan - M.S. in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Koby Dudley - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Chase McLean - B.S. in Economics
Jake Pinkston - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
John Reiley - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Hayden Sather - B.S. in Computer Science
Ben Twombly - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Max Sevcik - B.S. in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Seun Ogunmodede – Ph.D. in Operations Research
Joseph Wolfe - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

MEN'S SOCCER
Greyson Adams - B.S. in Geological Engineering
Patrick Allan - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Baptiste Debuire - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Lucas King - B.S. in Electrical Engineering
George Marchant - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Seun Ogunmodede – Ph.D. in Operations Research
Talon Stanley - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Ryan Wilson - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
 
MEN'S SWIMMING
Jerry Birnbaum - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Robert Clayton - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Joe Peak - B.S. in Computer Science
Matthew Pollmiller - M.S. in Electrical Engineering
Peyton Scherschel - B.S. in Computer Science
Gareth Svanda - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Ben Topper - M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
 
SOFTBALL
Stefanie Brunello - B.S. in Applied Math/Statistics
Kelsey Buechler - M.S. in Hydrology
Clara Larson - M.S. in Computer Science
Sydney Marchando - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Kylie Redding - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Claire Stringfellow - B.S. in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
 
VOLLEYBALL
Lindsey Jin - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
 
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Raven Herrera - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Heaven McKinley - B.S. in Environmental Engineering
Courtney Stanton - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
 
WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Allee Beach - B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Kennede Brown - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Krista Carlo - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Sophia Collins - B.S. in Computer Science
Brook Eberle – M.Eng. in Geological Engineering
Melina Endsley - B.S. in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Maddie Geesen - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Gabby Griner - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Morgan Molesworth - B.S. in Geophysical Engineering
Layla Moriarty - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Haidyn Ogg - B.S. in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Kathleen Tomon - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Reilly West - B.S. in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Shea Zeman - M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering
 
WOMEN'S SOCCER
Chaney Brugman - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Anna Evans - M.S. in Advanced Energy Systems
Julia Hawn – M.Eng. in Geological Engineering
Sierra Roth - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Samantha Scott - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
 
WOMEN'S SWIMMING
Kori Davis - B.S. in Environmental Engineering
Yara Lima - M.S. in Advanced Energy Systems
Olivia Lomax - B.S. in Computer Science
Audrey Miller - M.S. in Advanced Energy Systems
Emily Rotert - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Kailey Said - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Nadia Smith - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
 
WRESTLING
Jack Damenti - B.S. in Engineering Physics
Ryan Fidel - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Taylor Gambill - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Robert Gambrell - M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Weston Hunt - B.S. in Mining Engineering
Skyler Lykins - B.S. in Petroleum Engineering
Noah Ottum - M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Anderson Salisbury - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
TJ Shelton - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Jake Stogdill - M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering