Head track and field coach Harry Clark was hired to lead the Fighting Saints Track & Field teams in 2013.
LAST SEASON: For the first time since 2022, Clark guided the Carroll Men's Track & Field team to a Frontier Conference Championship with 267 total points. In total, the Men finished their big weekend with 33 All-Conference performers, with 10 individual conference champions in various events, and a pair of relay teams taking top spot on the podium as well.Clark was named Frontier Conference Men's Track & Field Coach of the Year. The Carroll Women also had an impressive weekend, finishing second place as a team. The Women had 25 student-athletes named All-Conference, with three individual champions and one relay team taking podium position.
Clark has an impressive list of accomplished student-athletes under his tenure, having coached over 190 Carroll College student-athletes to becoming NAIA All-Americans under his leadership. The track team averages 12 All-Americans per season, with a number of individual National Champions.
Weston Means won the 2025 NAIA Indoor T&F High Jump National Championship with a leap of 2.15m (7' 1/2").
Lee Walburn won back-to-back NAIA Outdoor T&F Men's Decathlon Championships in 2021 and 2022.
Nikki Krueger won the 2021 NAIA Indoor T&F Women's Shot Put National Championship with a throw of 14.12m (46' 4").
David Barnett won the 2016 NAIA Outdoor T&F Men's Javelin National Championship with a throw of 62.33m (204' 6").
Leah Esposito won the 2016 NAIA Indoor T&F Women's Mile with a time of 4:56.89, and the 2015 NAIA Indoor T&F Women's 1,000m with a time of 2:52.04.
Easton Padden won three-consecutive NAIA Men's Pole Vault Championships from 2013-2014 (Indoor 2013, Outdoor 2013, Indoor 2014).
He is a Montana high school legend and an All-American multi-event athlete in college.
Clark was promoted to head coach from assistant in the spring of 2013. Before his time at Carroll he coached 11 years at the University of Montana where he recruited and coached over two dozen Big Sky Champion athletes. He coached sprints and jumps which he continues to focus on at Carroll.
Prior to his time at Montana he was the head coach at Stanford High School in central Montana.
One of the best track and field athletes of all time in Montana, Clark set all-class records in the intermediate hurdles and also the triple jump, which stood for over 30 years. He also set class B records in five events while leading his Cascade Badgers to the class B state championships in 1983 and 1984. Clark earned a total of 22 state medals, 11 of them being gold. He was named to the Montana High School Association Hall of Fame in 2014.
In college, Clark became an All-American decathlete at Montana State after transferring from the University of Houston. He still holds the MSU record in the decathlon with 7633 points.
Clark resides in Helena with his wife Lori and their sons Dexter and Cole.
