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Carroll women make the grade

Now the Carroll College women's basketball team can say they aren't just one of the top 10 teams in the nation athletically, but also academically.

The Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) announced its winners for the 2007-08 Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll Monday and the Saints made their way onto the list, filling out the No. 9 spot with an average GPA of 3.54.

The Saints, who finished last season 27-6 and made it to the NAIA Division I national tournament's "Elite Eight," are one of only two teams that were top 10 on both the list and in the tournament bracket. Only Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.), who came in on the list just below Carroll at No. 10, was a Division I school to also make it to the quarterfinal round. Story

Carroll women sign two basketball players

The Carroll College women's basketball program has added two new recruits to their list of 2008 signees.

Junior college standout Sarah McNamee of Miles City Community College and Kirstin King of Anaconda High School added their names to the roster announced head coach Shawn Nelson on Monday. Story

Carroll's Fuzesy breaks national record

A little over four years ago Jolene Fuzesy came to Carroll College with the tag of “pure shooter.” Two weeks ago she completed her college career with a slight change to that label, “purest shooter.”

Fuzesy, who came to Helena after prepping at Havre and Malta, finished her college career with 464 made 3-point field goals on 899 attempts. That calculates to a career percentage of 51.6, which is a record in NAIA and NCAA basketball for men and women. That moves her ahead of the previous mark of 51.3 set by Scott Martin (236 of 460) of NCAA Division II Rollins College. Ballin