GOLDEN, Colo. - Thirty-five current and former Colorado School of Mines student-athletes earned college degrees on Dec. 15 as part of the university's winter Commencement ceremonies at Lockridge Arena.

Mines student-athletes earned 21 bachelor's and 14 master's degrees

For the first time ever, every member of the graduating class had been an RMAC champion, either individually or with a team, at some point in their careers. In total, the class included nine all-Americans, two Academic All-Americans, three national champions, and 34 NCAA qualifiers. 

Football was the most represented team among the graduates with 25 members, most of whom received their degrees in absentia as they prepared for the national championship game in Texas. The cross country and track & field programs had six graduates, with women's soccer having two and baseball, men's soccer, and wrestling having one each. Amena Nelson, earning her master's in Advanced Manufacturing, was the lone dual-sport athlete in the class having been a standout for both women's soccer and track & field.

Track & field's Everett Delate and Hannah Miller were selected as the Presidential Senior Scholar-Athletes; Delate is a two-time all-American hurdler, while Miller was the 2023 NCAA indoor pole vault champion and a five-time NCAA podium finisher. They were also each selected as the outstanding graduates for their departments (Delate for Economics and Miller for Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering), and football's Jack Walters was selected as the Mechanical Engineering department's Outstanding Student-Athlete.

The current and former Mines student-athletes earning degrees this December are:


BASEBALL
Brady Veltien - B.S., Computer Science

FOOTBALL
Mason Cook - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Joey Echigoshima - B.S., Economics
James Garrison - B.S., Computer Science
Zach Hester - B.S., Geological Engineering
Jack Lowery - B.S., Computer Science
Max McLeod - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Logan Rayburn - B.S., Business Engineering & Management Science
Nate Sutter - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Jack Walters - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Kyle West - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Gabe Whipple - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Jaden Williams - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Preston Yates - B.S., Computer Science
Chris Yoo - B.S., Computer Science
Evan Alexander - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Kyle Bahnsen - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Jacob Click - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Ben Fuchs - M.S., Chemical Engineering
Zach Hoffman - M.S., Computer Science
Levi Johnson - M.S., Data Science
Josh Krause - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Caleb Marlatt - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
John Matocha - M.S., Computer Science
Steele Petty - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Nolan Reeve - M.S., Additive Manufacturing

MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Max Bonenberger - B.S., Chemical Engineering
Matt Mettler - B.S., Chemical Engineering
Everett Delate - B.S., Economics

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Clare Peters - M.S., Advanced Energy Systems
Hannah Miller - B.S., Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering
Amena Nelson - M.S., Advanced Manufacturing

MEN'S SOCCER
Azad Iliozer - M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering

WOMEN'S SOCCER
Kate Clady - B.S., Computer Science
Amena Nelson - M.S., Advanced Manufacturing

WRESTLING
Levi Farris - B.S., Engineering Physics