For Immediate Release Contact: Kacey Kingry, SID

Wednesday, February 6, 2002 (303) 273-3095 -- Office

COLORADO MINES FOOTBALL

'Diggers Pen 19 Recruits on Signing Day/P>

GOLDEN, Colo. – The Colorado School of Mines football team signed 19 scholarship players to national letters of intent on February 6. The Orediggers went 7-4 in 2001 under second year head coach Bob Stitt, as the team finished fifth in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The 2001 season marked the most Mines wins since 1958 and the first winning record since 1991 for the Orediggers.

"The success of this years team has allowed us to go out and sign kids that in our first and second years here, we wouldnt have been able to go out and recruit," Stitt said. "This recruiting class is the next step in our plan of becoming a championship football team."

The list of scholarship players head coach Bob Stitt and his staff has signed thus far includes:

Name

Position

Ht.

Wt.

Hometown (High School)

Dustin Baldwin

BB

5-10

185

Ft. Hood, Texas (San Marcos Baptist Academy)

Nick Belden

DL

6-3

260

Denver, Colo. (Denver East)

Brent Chacon

WR

6-0

165

Gilcrest, Colo. (Valley)

Jake Coykendall

LB

6-2

220

Lone Tree, Colo. (Heritage)

Brian Fitzpatrick

TE

6-6

215

Superior, Colo. (Monarch)

Larry Forsythe

LB

6-1

235

Tempe, Ariz. (Phoenix College)

Matt Fultz

DL

6-0

295

Claremore, Okla. (Bishop Kelly)

Justin Gallas

WR

5-11

160

Westminster, Colo. (Northglenn)

Ryan Loewen

OL

6-6

280

Colo. Spgs., Colo. (Doherty)

Garrett Mehl

QB

6-1

180

Crete, Neb. (Crete)

Tim Miller

DB

6-1

220

Littleton, Colo. (Columbine)

Dominic Monarco

RB

6-0

220

Colo. Spgs., Colo. (Coronado)

Andrew Nobis

DB

5-11

190

Littleton, Colo. (Dakota Ridge)

Justin Pemberton

DB

5-9

160

Magnolia, Texas (Tomball)

Brandon Richardson

DL

6-1

260

Aztec, N.M. (Aztec)

Luke Salmans

QB

6-1

205

Hanston, Kan. (Hanston)

Bracken Spencer

OL

6-4

220

South Lake, Texas (Carroll)

Austin Wagner

LB

6-0

230

Colo. Spgs., Colo. (Cheyenne Mountain)

Charles Yarbrough

DE

6-3

225

Lakewood, Colo. (Green Mountain)

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