GOLDEN, Colo. - Colorado School of Mines student-athletes earned 85 degrees during the university's spring Commencement ceremonies held May 12 and 13 at Lockridge Arena.

Current and former Orediggers earned a total of 55 bachelor's and 30 master's degrees, with all 18 Mines teams represented. Combined with December 2021 graduates, Mines student-athletes earned 112 degrees in 2021-22.

The Class of 2022 produced impressive accomplishments in competition and in the classroom, with 15 All-Americans, 10 Academic All-Americans, 63 RMAC champions, 65 NCAA qualifiers, and six national champions crossing the stage. The graduating class was led by cross country/track & field standout Zoe Baker, who received 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 third consecutive spring a student-athlete has won Commencement's top honor for a graduate.

In addition, three student-athletes - Baker in Applied Mathematics & Statistics, football's Ben Fuchs in Chemical & Biological Process Engineering, and women's basketball's Denali Pinto in Chemical & Biological Engineering, were named the outstanding graduating seniors in their departments. Three Orediggers were dual-degree recipients, with Baker receiving two bachelor's degrees in Computational and Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, cross country/track & field's Bo Raadam two in Chemical Engineering and Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, and former track & field standout Hayden Sather earning master's degrees in both Computer Science and Data Science.

On Thursday, Baker and men's basketball's Brendan Sullivan were recognized as the President's Senior Scholar-Athletes, awarded to two undergraduate degree recipients who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement and the leadership qualities of an exemplary student-athlete.

Thirty undergraduates earned honors with eight graduating summa cum laude, 11 magna cum laude, and 12 cum laude.

Nine members of the Class of 2022 had an excused absence from Commencement as the Mines baseball team was competing in the RMAC Tournament in Grand Junction. The team has five undergraduate and four graduate degree recipients this year, and they were recognized at the ceremonies in Golden while holding their own with family and teammates in Grand Junction on Thursday morning. 

The current and former Mines student-athletes earning degrees this May and after the summer term are:

BASEBALL
Caden Bonds - B.S. in Geological Engineering
Danny McDermott - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Nash Neff - B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Brayden Weyer - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Kevin Zapanta - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Tyler Blomster - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Clark Martin - M.S. in Mineral & Energy Economics
Chris Okamoto - M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Toby Scoles - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Michael Tanner - M.S. in Mineral & Energy Economics
Taylor White - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management

MEN'S BASKETBALL
Kobi Betts - B.S. in Economics
Ben Boone - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Trent Dykema - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Justin Engesser - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Brendan Sullivan - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Tylor Trinh - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Raven Herrera - M.S. in Humanitarian Engineering and Science
Heaven McKinley - M.S. in Hydrology
Denali Pinto - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Courtney Stanton - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Megan Van de Graaf - B.S. in Chemical & Biological Engineering
Sammy Van Sickle - B.S. in Civil Engineering

MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Nathan Davis - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Duncan Fuehne - B.S. in Engineering Physics
John O'Malley - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Bo Raadam - B.S. in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering and B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Dylan Ko - M.S. in Computer Science
Jake Mitchem - M.S. in Electrical Engineering
Arvid Veidmark IV - B.S. in Mining Engineering
Ben Abueg - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Joe Whitney - B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Hayden Sather - M.S. in Data Science and M.S. in Computer Science

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Zoe Baker - B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Computational and Applied Mathematics
Mackenzie Duck - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Alex Raichart - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Morgan Molesworth - M.S. in Geophysical Engineering
Amena Nelson - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Kennede Brown - M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering

FOOTBALL
Kobe Brewster - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Zach Budzik - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Beau Collins - B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Ben Fuchs - B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Denver Hargrove - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Mason Karp - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Robert Miller - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Christian Mueller - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management
Nolan Reeve - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Chaffin Ross - M.S. in Chemical Engineering
Tristan Smith - B.S. in Petroleum Engineering

GOLF
Max Engel - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Preston Smith - M.S. in Advanced Manufacturing

MEN'S SOCCER
Brian Doherty - B.S. in Chemical & Biological Engineering
Joe George - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Michael Sprauer - B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Greyson Adams - M.S. in Geological Engineering
Baptiste Debuire - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management

WOMEN'S SOCCER
Alegra Aguayo - B.S. in Chemical & Biological Engineering
Amena Nelson - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Emma Peterson - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Meg Zimmerman - B.S. in Computer Science
Jackie Knott Cirkus - M.S. in Electrical Engineering
Sierra Roth - M.S. in Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering

SOFTBALL
Claire Smith - B.S. in Civil Engineering

MEN'S SWIMMING
Henry Oberley - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Harry Smith - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Robert Clayton - M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

WOMEN'S SWIMMING
Maddie Finley - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Sam Henney - B.S. in Chemical Engineering

VOLLEYBALL
Amanda Donais - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Elle Duis - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Julia Eiken - B.S. in Computational and Applied Mathematics
Taylor Hicken - B.S. in Computer Science
Cora McCanlies - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Danielle Mullen - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Lindsey Jin - M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Megan Neil - B.S. in Civil Engineering

WRESTLING
Teague Dilbeck - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Aidan Funk - B.S. in Computer Science
Nolan Funk - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Tyler Krause - B.S. in Statistics
Mike True - B.S. in Mining Engineering
Jack Damenti - M.S. in Quantum Engineering
Ryan Fidel - M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Weston Hunt - M.S. in Underground Construction & Tunnel Engineering
Zach Krause - M.S. in Natural Resources & Energy Policy
Anderson Salisbury - M.S. in Mechanical Engineering