Since 1972, the athletics program at Colorado School of Mines has tallied 214 Academic All-Americans, more than any other NCAA Division II program – and that's just the beginning of the Oredigger story as the NCAA kicks off its 2025-26 season.
The new esports lab is now open at 1600 Jackson St. The space features 12 high-performance PC setups for popular games. It also includes a fully equipped streaming studio with cameras, microphones and a green screen for broadcasting live to Twitch or YouTube.
Colorado School of Mines isn't your typical college football team. Here's everything you need to know about the Orediggers before the NCAA Division II Football Championship Game on Saturday.
Kerry Siggins ’01, Kari Gonzales ’02 and Kim Alanis ’04 MS ’05 say that playing Oredigger softball created a support system that kept them at Mines through tough personal struggles while teaching them
Football becomes the sixth different Mines program to be ranked #1 in a national poll all-time, joining men's basketball, men's cross country, golf, men's soccer, and men's track & field.
The Mines quarterback is the first Oredigger to win the national award. Matocha, the 2022 Harlon Hill winner, received his bachelor's degree in computer science in May with a 3.64 GPA and will work on a master's degree this year in his final season of NCAA eligibility.
Twenty years after meeting on the Mines men's soccer team, Nicholas Clausnitzer ’07 and Michael Dixon ’06 still spend many waking hours of the day together as colleagues at Aera Energy.
