GOLDEN, Colo. - Thirty current and former Colorado School of Mines student-athletes earned degrees on Dec. 13 as part of the university's winter Commencement ceremonies at Lockridge Arena.

Mines student-athletes earned 12 bachelor's and 18 master's degrees. The graduating class included five all-Americans, four Academic All-Americans, 27 RMAC champions, and three national champions; every undergraduate degree recipient had been an RMAC champion at some point in their career. Six of the 12 undergraduates earned honors including summa cum laude for men's soccer's Hilmir Arnarsson and Quin Collins and women's soccer's Reese McDermott. 

McDermott and football's Max McLeod were named the Presidential Senior Scholar-Athletes for the graduating class on Thursday, recognizing their outstanding athletic and academic achievements. Three student-athletes earned graduate awards with McDermott a member of Tau Beta Pi, the national honor society of engineers; Arnarsson earning the Computer Science department's Faculty Choice Award; and track & field/cross country's Alex Shaw being named the Mechanical Engineering department's Outstanding Student-Athlete. 

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

BASEBALL
Henry Novicki - M.S., Natural Resources & Energy Policy
Brady Veltien - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management

FOOTBALL
Mikee Barker - B.S., Business Engineering & Management Science
Caden Best - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Joey Echigoshima - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Evan Foster - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Hayden Gregg - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Ben James - B.S., Computer Science
Kasen Loveless - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Max McLeod - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Mitchell Morehead - B.S., Business Engineering & Management Science
Maxwell Nwokeukwu - M.S., Mechanical Engineering
Josh Pollard - M.S., Robotics
Steve Street - B.S., Electrical Engineering
Jack Walters - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Kyle West - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Chris Yoo - M.S., Computer Science

MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY and TRACK & FIELD
Shane Conley - B.S., Chemical and Biological Engineering
Duncan Fuehne - M.S., Applied Physics
Bo Raadam - M.S., Earth Resources Development Engineering
Alex Shaw - B.S., Mechanical Engineering

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY and TRACK & FIELD
Zoe Baker - M.S., Computer Science
Aryelle Wright - M.S., Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering

MEN'S SOCCER
Hilmir Arnarsson - B.S., Computer Science
Quin Collins - B.S., Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering
Caelin David - B.S., Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering

WOMEN'S SOCCER
Katie Koehler - M.S., Electrical Engineering
Reese McDermott - B.S., Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering

MEN'S SWIMMING
Scott Reeder - M.S., Electrical Engineering

WRESTLING
Levi Farris - B.S., Engineering Physics