Carroll College (Montana)
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Carroll College is a private Catholic liberal arts college in Helena, Montana, USA.
Carroll College opened its doors in 1910. The school was founded by John "Jack" Patrick Carroll the second Bishop of the Diocese of Helena. Originally called Mount St. Charles College in honor of St. Charles Borromeo, it graduated its first class in 1916. In 1932 the institution changed its name to Carroll College in honor of its founder. The first and largest building on campus is St. Charles Hall which lies on Capital Hill. Originally it was founded as an all-men's liberal arts diocesan college with an emphasis on preparing men for careers in priesthood, law, medicine, teaching, and engineering.
It has a student enrollment of 1,500. The male to female ratio is 43%/57%.
The college is home to Artisan Dance, Montana's first and only professional ballet company.
Carroll College Forensics: The Carroll College Talking Saints speech and debate team is currently #1 in their region, with 17 running regional championships and over 40 regional tournament championships. In 1999, the Talking Saints captured their first national title in parliamentary debate by winning the season sweepstakes of the National Parliamentary Debate Association.
[edit] Athletics
The Carroll College sports teams are called The Fighting Saints and compete in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Frontier Conference. The sports offered at Carroll are as follows. Carroll College football
The Fighting Saints football team has, on a number of occasions, been named NAIA national football champions. Probably Carroll's most famous football graduate is current Atlanta Falcons head coach Bobby Petrino. Carroll was also the first head coaching job for John Gagliardi, who coached there from 1949 through 1952, and went on from there to St. John's of Minnesota, where he became the winningest coach in college history regardless of division.
