GOLDEN, Colo. - Colorado School of Mines awarded degrees to 123 student-athletes on Thursday and Friday as part of the university's 150th anniversary commencement exercises at Lockridge Arena.

The Orediggers' Class of 2024 includes 80 receiving bachelor's degrees and a department-record 43 master's degree recipients. The class includes 17 All-Americans, 15 Academic All-Americans, 81 RMAC team or individual champions, and four national champions. 

Eighteen student-athletes graduated summa cum laude, eight magna cum laude, and 14 cum laude. Combined with the winter 2023 commencement, 158 Mines student-athletes received degrees in the 2023-24 school year. 

On Thursday, women's soccer's Katie Koehler and men's track & field's Hunter Potrykus were named the President's Senior Scholar-Athletes for this spring's class, the athletic department's highest honor for a graduating senior. The award is given to one male and one female undergraduate student-athlete who has demonstrated outstanding academic achievement and the leadership qualities of an exemplary student-athlete. 

Several more student-athletes were honored with university and departmental honors including track & field's Fischer James Espiritu Argosino, who received the Dan Fox Outstanding Student Service Award; track & field's Dale Thompson, who was the Biochemistry department's outstanding graduating senior; and swimmer Jules Hays, who was the outstanding graduating senior from the Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering department. Baseball's Chandler Cole was named the Mechanical Engineering department's Outstanding Student-Athlete. 

Two Orediggers were dual-degree recipients as football's Zach Heckman earned master's degrees in both chemical engineering and engineering and technology management, and swimming's Jaron O'Grady received bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science.  

The baseball team, in the midst of their run at the RMAC Tournament in Grand Junction, graduated in absentia and its degree recipients were honored in a ceremony there on Thursday morning. 

Mines student-athletes receiving degrees included:

BASEBALL
Mason Andrews - B.S., Civil Engineering
Shuta Araki - B.S., Electrical Engineering
Jackson Bakovich - M.S., Computer Science
Chandler Cole - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Luke Folsom - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Rodney Gregg - B.S., Civil Engineering
I-Ly Hsue - M.S., Additive Manufacturing
Marcus Lee - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Wayne Moeck - B.S., Civil Engineering
Reece Noel - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Nic Roma - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Ben Schoneman - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Weston Siefken - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Keene Tanaka - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Ryan Vermeer - B.S., Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering

FOOTBALL
Eb Alfred-Igbokwe - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Will Drogosch - B.S., Economics
Max Fecci - B.S., Petroleum Engineering
Cam Forrest - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Hayden Gregg - B.S., Petroleum Engineering
Jaden Healy - B.S., Economics
Zach Heckman - M.S., Chemical Engineering and M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
James Hess - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Cole Johnson - B.S., Petroleum Engineering
Kade Johnson - M.S., Additive Manufacturing
Tyler Marlatt - B.S., Civil Engineering
Eric Olson - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Jack Peterson - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Josh Pollard - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Billy Pospisil III - M.S., Environmental Engineering Science
Mac Post - B.S., Metallurgical & Materials Science
Blake Ramsey - B.S., Mining Engineering
Aaron Rhea - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Collin Romero - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Noah Roper - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Peyton Rose - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Preston Rose - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Jalen Thomas - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Nic Van de Graaf - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Josh Wojciechowicz - B.S., Electrical Engineering
Kenny Wright - B.S., Engineering Physics

GOLF
Ethan Adam - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Owen Cornmesser - B.S., Electrical Engineering
Jake Welch - B.S., Mechanical Engineering

MEN'S BASKETBALL
Sam Beskind - M.S., Advanced Energy Systems
Reagan Koch - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Grant Pressly - B.S., Economics
Taylor Spurlock - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Adam Thistlewood - M.S., Computer Science

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Quincey Baum - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Josephine Howery - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Shelby Nichols - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Jessica Rios - B.S., Biochemistry
Ashley Steffeck - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Loralee Stock - B.S., Civil Engineering

MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Fischer James Espiritu Argosino - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Andy Gebhardt - B.S., Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering
Garrett Halbrooks - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Davin Kiesby - B.S., Applied Mathematics & Engineering
Nicholas Nijkamp - B.S., Electrical Engineering
John O'Malley - M.S., Robotics
Hunter Potrykus - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Grant Redmond - M.S., Electrical Engineering
JP Rutledge - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Loic Scomparin - M.S., Advanced Energy Systems
Jeremiah Vaille - B.S., Civil Engineering

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Allison Comer - B.S., Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Abbi Gillespie - B.S., Engineering Physics
Avery Herbold - B.S., Chemical Engineering
Randi Higashi - M.S., Computer Science
Claire Kintzley - B.S., Computer Science
Ava Kowalski - B.S., Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering
Ashleigh Loe - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Molly Maksin - M.S., Advanced Energy Systems
Riley McGrath - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Hannah Miller - M.S., Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering
Holly Moser - M.S., Hydrology
Dale Thompson - B.S., Biochemistry
Gabbi Varela - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Lexye Wood - M.S., Mechanical Engineering

MEN'S SOCCER
Grant Bell - B.S., Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering
Josef Emge - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Kagan Giltinan - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Ian Kugler - M.S., Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering
Chris Seery - B.S., Applied Mathematics & Statistics

WOMEN'S SOCCER
Emma Carstens - B.S., Chemical Engineering
Kate Clady - M.S., Data Science
Landry Corbett - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Michelle Easley - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Eliot Edwards - B.S., Computer Science
Ava Harman - B.S., Applied Mathematics & Engineering
Katie Koehler - B.S., Electrical Engineering
Brooke Patterson - M.S., Mechanical Engineering
Brooke Pennington - B.S., Civil Engineering
Cloey Seltzer - B.S., Geological Engineering
Colleen Tyrrell - M.S., Mechanical Engineering

MEN'S SWIMMING
Charles Burroughs - M.S., Mechanical Engineering
Braden Hunt - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Seth Krause - B.S., Computer Science
Jaron O'Grady - B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Scott Reeder - B.S., Electrical Engineering
Garrett Waite - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Max Waring - B.S., Electrical Engineering

WOMEN'S SWIMMING
Jules Hays - B.S., Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering
Emma Neuroth - B.S., Chemical Engineering
Madeleine Oakley - B.S., Geological Engineering
Anne Osmun - B.S., Civil Engineering
Jorie Selig - B.S., Electrical Engineering

SOFTBALL
Kayleigh Krueger - B.S., Civil Engineering
Sara Larson - B.S., Computer Science
Trystin Oshiro-Sano - B.S., Civil Engineering
Ellaena Rodriguez - M.S., Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Sadriena Rodriguez - M.S., Engineering & Technology Management
Emilee Sloan - M.S., Earth Resource Development Engineering
Sidney Wilson - B.S., Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering

VOLLEYBALL
Madison Glassco - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Chase Kluna - B.S., Engineering Physics
Emily Knight - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Veronique Magnan - B.S., Civil Engineering
Shannon Perna - B.S., Engineering Physics
Rose Stuewe - M.S., Chemistry

WRESTLING
Daniel Caddy - B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Grant Crownhart - B.S., Mechanical Engineering