Mike Carroll Tribute Scholarship
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This scholarship is being developed in recognition of Mike Carroll’s 27 years of service to the athletes and students of the Rochester Catholic Schools community. For 15 years Mike taught Religion, History, Civics, Geography, Physical Education and Business Law and impacted the lives of each student that entered his classroom. He coached for more than 27 years as a freshman and B-Squad Football coach, Girls B-Squad Basketball coach and freshman and B-Squad baseball coach. It is because of Mike’s dedication to his students and athletes that his family, Kathy, John-Howard (’01), Fae (’02) and Tim (’03) have started this scholarship in Mike’s name. Mike has always believed that any student wishing to continue their education at Lourdes High School should not be denied that right due to financial restrictions.
Born to Howard and Freda Carroll in 1951, Mike was a student of Rochester Catholic Schools attending St. Pius Elementary School and graduating from Lourdes High School in1969. As a student at Lourdes, Mike participated in a variety of activities including football, basketball, track and field as well as participating in school plays and singing in the choir.
Upon graduation from Lourdes, Mike attended Rochester State Community College and the University of St. Thomas, pursuing a degree in business and graduating in 1973. Directly out of college Mike took nine months of Montessori training and then he, with his wife Kathy, moved back to Rochester and opened an in-home family childcare business. In fact, Mike was the first male to be a licensed childcare provider in the State of Minnesota. In the mid 1980’s, Mike returned to Saint Mary’s College in Winona to pursue his teaching certification in political science. In 1993 Mike began teaching for the Rochester Catholic Schools as a junior high History, Civics, Geography and Religion teacher at Saint John the Evangelist Catholic School. He continued teaching and coaching all three sports at Lourdes
until his retirement in January 2008.