General | 07/06/20 | 4:29 PM

HELENA, Mont. -- The Carroll College Fighting Saints athletic department earned the Cascade Collegiate Conference's Presidents' Academic Excellence status, the conference announced. 

The award is based on academic merit from the 2019-20 sports calendar. 

In order to receive the designation, a department must achieve an overall combined GPA of 3.0 or better among their student-athletes that compete in sports that the CCC declares champions in and have 60% or higher of student-athletes who are eligible to receive Academic All-Conference recognition to do so. 

Carroll's CCC-affiliated programs combined for a 3.4 GPA, while 64% of its student-athletes were also designated as academic all-CCC. 

The Saints were joined by the College of Idaho, Oregon Tech, Bushnell (formerly Northwest Christian) and Northwest as institutions that accomplished the feat.