Mike Van Diest
| Mike Van Diest | |
|---|---|
| Sport(s) | Football |
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Carroll (MT) |
| Conference | Frontier |
| Record | 186–30 |
| Playing career | |
| 1971–1972, 1974 | Wyoming |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1978–1979 1986 1991–1998 1999–present |
Wyoming (assistant) UMass (DL) Wyoming (assistant) Carroll (MT) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 186–30 |
| Tournaments | 35–8 (NAIA playoffs) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
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Championships | |
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Awards
2× AFCA NAIA Coach of the Year (2007, 2010) | |
Mike Van Diest is an American football coach and former player. He has been the head football coach at Carroll College in Helena, Montana since the 1999 season. Van Diest's Carroll Fighting Saints have won six NAIA National Championships, four consecutively from 2002 to 2005, a fifth in 2007, and a sixth in 2010. In his 16 seasons at Carroll, Van Diest has compiled a career record of 186–30. His winning percentage of .861 is the fifth highest of any head coach with at least ten seasons of experience in college football history, behind only that of Mount Union's Larry Kehres, Notre Dame's Knute Rockne, Frank Leahy of Boston College and Notre Dame, and Bob Reade of Augustana (Illinois).
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll Fighting Saints (Frontier Conference) (1999–present) | |||||||||
| 1999 | Carroll | 5–6 | |||||||
| 2000 | Carroll | 10–4 | 1st | L NAIA Semifinal | |||||
| 2001 | Carroll | 10–2 | 1st | L NAIA Semifinal | |||||
| 2002 | Carroll | 12–2 | 1st | W NAIA Championship | |||||
| 2003 | Carroll | 15–0 | 1st | W NAIA Championship | |||||
| 2004 | Carroll | 12–2 | 1st | W NAIA Championship | |||||
| 2005 | Carroll | 14–0 | 1st | W NAIA Championship | |||||
| 2006 | Carroll | 11–2 | 9–1 | 1st | L NAIA Quarterfinal | ||||
| 2007 | Carroll | 15–0 | 10–0 | 1st | W NAIA Championship | ||||
| 2008 | Carroll | 13–1 | 10–0 | 1st | L NAIA Championship | ||||
| 2009 | Carroll | 13–1 | 8–1 | 1st | L NAIA Semifinal | ||||
| 2010 | Carroll | 14–0 | 10–0 | 1st | W NAIA Championship | ||||
| 2011 | Carroll | 13–2 | 9–1 | 1st | L NAIA Championship | ||||
| 2012 | Carroll | 7–4 | 7–3 | 3rd | |||||
| 2013 | Carroll | 12–2 | 9–1 | 1st | L NAIA Seminfinal | ||||
| 2014 | Carroll | 10–2 | 9–1 | 1st | L NAIA Quarterfinal | ||||
| Carroll: | 186–30 | 131–16 | |||||||
| Total: | 186–30 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
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