GOLDEN, Colo. - Thirty-one current and former student-athletes earned degrees on Dec. 19 as part of Colorado School of Mines' winter commencement ceremonies held at Lockridge Arena.

Student-athletes received 17 bachelor's and 13 master's degrees, and former track & field thrower Dr. Kat Tomon Veidmark earned her doctorate while also keynoting the afternoon graduate ceremony as the featured student speaker.

The Class of 2025 included five all-Americans, two Academic All-Americans, 28 RMAC champions, and three national champions among their list of impressive accomplishments. Ten of the graduates were earning their second Mines degree, and Tomon Veidmark her third. 

Wrestling's Grayston DiBlasi, earning his mechanical engineering master's, was named the President's Outstanding Senior Scholar-Athlete for his combination of athletic and academic achievement; DiBlasi was a two-time Academic All-American while winning 95 career bouts for the Orediggers.

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


FOOTBALL
Mikee Barker - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management 
Joey Beckner - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Jackson Cimino - B.S. in Computer Science
Joel Diaz - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Matthew Eich - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Ben James - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management 
Logan Lindeman - B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Kasen Loveless - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management 
Michael Magar - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Mark McCurdy - M.S. in Mineral & Energy Economics
Sean McNair - M.S. in Mineral & Energy Economics
Zack Morris - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Chandler Poggensee - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Carter Forsythe    M.Eng. in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Aaron Rhea - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management 
Flynn Schiele - B.S. in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Luke Shavey - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Landon Walker - B.S. in Civil Engineering
Brock Zanetell - B.S. in Civil Engineering

MEN'S BASKETBALL
Juani Dassie - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

MEN'S SOCCER
Caelin David - M.S. in Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering 
Tommy Jernigan - B.S. in Computer Science
Marc Levin - B.S. in Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering

WOMEN'S SOCCER
Emily O'Connor - M.S. in Advanced Energy Systems 

MEN'S TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY
Jonah Fallon - B.S. in Computer Science
Noah Kelly - M.S. in Mechanical Engineering 
Logan Bocovich - M.S. Geochemistry
Ethan Grolnic - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Alex Shaw - M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management 

WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD
Kathleen Tomon Veidmark - PhD in Operations Research with Engineering

VOLLEYBALL
Brianna Binder - M.S. in Data Science 

WRESTLING
Grayston DiBlasi - M.S. in Mechanical Engineering