Head Coach Mike Carroll

Mike Carroll is entering his 25th season as the head women's hockey coach at Gustavus in the 2023-24 season. During his tenure behind the Gustie bench, Carroll has turned Gustavus women’s hockey into one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division III. He has compiled an overall record of 492-123-48 in 23 seasons and has the most coaching victories in the history of the program. Carroll is the second winningest coach all-time in NCAA Division III women's hockey with 492 wins and a winning percentage of .778. Carroll and the 2022-23 Women's Hockey Team won the first NCAA DIII National Championship for a team in the West Region, marking the program and the conference's first women's hockey national championship. The Gusties defeated Amherst on the road in a triple overtime thriller, 2-1, playing in the longest title game in Division III history.

Carroll has directed the Gusties to 17 MIAC regular season titles (2000-01, 2001-02, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2019-20, 2021-22, 2022-23) and has been named the MIAC Coach-of-the-Year eight times (2001-02, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2010-11, 2012-13, 2016-17, 2019-20, 2021-22). In addition to coaching 51 players who have earned All-Conference honors 93 times, he has coached eight MIAC Players-of-the-Year in Sarah Garrison Moe, Andrea Peterson, Stefanie Ubl, Allie Schwab, Lindsey Hjelm, Carolyn Draayer, Kayla Vrieze, and Hailey Holland. Carroll has also worked with 18 players who have earned All-America distinction 28 times and two American Hockey Coaches Association Players-of-the-Year, including four-time MIAC Player-of-the-Year and four-time All-American Andrea Peterson.

Prior to coming to Gustavus, Carroll served as the head boys' hockey coach at Mankato West High School from 1991 to 1999. Carroll's college coaching resume included a stint as head men's hockey coach at Fergus Falls Community College from 1986 to 1987 as well as a season as the assistant men's coach at the University of St. Thomas in 1983. Carroll ended a 19-year career as the head coach of the Gustavus baseball team in the spring of 2015.

Carroll, an Edina, Minnesota native, competed in hockey and baseball at Mankato State. After graduating with a degree in municipal recreation in 1982, Carroll played professional baseball in the Montreal Expos organization for two years. Carroll was inducted into the Edina High School Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Minnesota State University-Mankato Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013.

Mike and his wife, Terri, live in Prior Lake and have two adult sons, Matt and Mike.