After a successful final season playing for DU’s men’s hockey team, four seniors are set to graduate and blaze their own trails. Gabe Levin (Marina del Rey, California), Quentin Shore (Denver), Nolan Zajac (Winnipeg, Canada) and Grant Arnold (Centennial, Colorado) are set to graduate on Saturday, June 4.

At DU, Levin was a finance major in the Daniels College of Business. In his four years, he registered a 3.961 GPA and received many awards for his academic achievements, including the 2016 NCHC Scholar-Athlete of the Year and the Dr. Art Mason Memorial Award for top scholar-athlete. He was also named the recipient of the first ever NCHC Post-Graduate Scholarship. On December 5, Levin took the Law School Admissions Test, on which he scored in the 99th percentile. His scholarly successes culminated with an acceptance letter to Harvard Law School in March.

“It’s an honor to be accepted and I’m really excited. I put a lot of hard work into trying to get in there,” he said. Recently, Levin officially decided that he will be leaving Denver to attend Harvard in the fall to pursue a career in law.

Shore, Zajac and Arnold will all be looking to sign American Hockey League (AHL) or East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) contracts this summer.

Shore’s older brothers Nick and Drew are currently playing hockey professionally. Nick is in the National Hockey League (NHL) playing for the Los Angeles Kings, and Drew is currently playing with the Stockton Heat, the AHL affiliate for the Calgary Flames. Shore is hoping to continue the family tradition of playing professional hockey. He was selected by the Ottawa Senators in the sixth round of the 2013 NHL draft. Shore will likely begin playing with the Senators’ AHL affiliate, the Binghamton Senators.

Zajac and Arnold have not been formally drafted by any NHL teams, but are looking to sign ECHL contracts in the coming months.

Whether pursuing law or professional hockey, DU will be graduating another batch of sure-to-be-successful scholar-athletes.