4 added to signing day

Two football players and one each in baseball and boys soccer made up Mullen’s class of student-athletes on Wednesday for the traditional national signing day.

Three football players signed in December in the new early signing period.

As for the latest, the Mustangs’ Nathan Deitrick signed to play football at Colorado Mesa; Henry Haen is headed to the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs for baseball; Broc Langren will play football at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; and Grant Reuter will be on the pitch for Augustana.

Dietrick, a defensive lineman, played four years of varsity for the Mustangs. Five-foot-11, 230 pounds, his three years of all-league honors included honorable mention, second team and first team.

“It seemed like the best place where I could excel in learning and playing football,” he said.

The Mustangs baseball manager in the spring, Dietrick has a 3.0 grade-point average, plans to study sports management and participate fully in the outdoors Grand Junction has to offer.

Langren, a 5-11, 300-pound center, also plays lacrosse. He played four years of varsity as a starter, enjoyed an array of all-league and academic honors, and still maintained a 3.8 GPA. He is a Mullen Torch Award winner and is in the National Honor Society. He also joined the Engineering Club, the Young Republicans and volunteered his time with the Denver Rescue Mission and Children’s Hospital. He will study engineering.

“It was everything I wanted,” Langren said of South Dakota Mines and Tech in Rapid City.

Haen is another two-sporter, also playing football. The first baseman was academic all-state and in football a two-time honorable mention all-league choice. A three-time Torch Award winner, he has a 4.0 GPA, was a three-time Student Ambassador Award winner and is with the Young Republicans. It will be mechanical engineering for him as a major.

“They said they’d like to have me there and it’s a brand new campus, gorgeous and not far from home (just down Interstate-25),” Haen said.

For Reuter, a defenseman, he played three years of varsity for the Mustangs as well as a year of lacrosse. He won a Les Schwab Academic All-State Award and was all-Centennial League. Also a lifeguard, Reuter had a 3.0 GPA, earned subject awards in Bio Ethics, Chemistry and Political Science, and plans to have computer science as his major.

“When I visited, I just fell in love with the place,” Reuter said of the campus in Rock Island, Ill.