Carter Selected as Lady Cavs Assistant Hoops Coach
 
July 10, 2007

Wise, VA – The University of Virginia’s College at Wise has added a talented and experienced coach to aid the women’s basketball leadership in new assistant coach Doug Carter. The incoming Lady Cavaliers’ coach comes to southwest Virginia after handling the head coaching duties for women’s basketball and softball at the Community College of Allegheny County South in the Pittsburgh area for the past two years.

Carter will assist ninth-year head coach Rachel Clay-Keohane. The Lady Cavs will look to retool in 2007-08 after falling to an 8-23 season just one year removed from a 24-10 mark, the program’s first Appalachian Athletic Conference title and run into the NAIA national championships.

“I am honored to be joining UVA-Wise and Coach Clay-Keohane’s staff,” says Carter. “It’s an outstanding university and I hope to help continue Coach Clay-Keohane’s mission of producing true student-athletes who excel in the classroom, win on the court and go on to begin successful careers.” 

“It's also an exciting time to be a part of the Lady Cavalier program,” admits the new assistant coach. “We will be young and inexperienced, but I love teaching the game and I think the new players will enjoy the chance to impact our program immediately.  There will be growing pains, but there is an opportunity to step up and accomplish some special team goals.” 

Over the past two years at CCAC South, the hoops coaching veteran set the school’s record in both basketball and softball over the 2005-06 campaign. Carter also had two national all-region student-athletes in two years.

Overall the basketball coach boasts more than 10 years of coaching experience both as a head and assistant coach of highly competitive basketball and baseball programs. The majority of the stops Carter has made have not had a winning history. He has a successful track record for implementing change and helping to turn programs around at each place Carter has been associated on the coaching staff.

Before his stop at CCAC South, the central Pennsylvania native spent three seasons (2002-05) as the assistant basketball and softball coach at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in King’s Point, NY. While with the Mariners, the women’s hoops teams were one of the finest defensive teams in the nation and finished in the top 10 of several NCAA Division III defensive statistics. The squad was selected as the most improved team of Division III with Carter’s assistance as he recruited multiple league Rookie of the Year award winners as the program set the school record for victories.

Carter was spent from 2000-02 as a graduate assistant coach at NCAA Division II Lock Haven University (PA) where he was the Intramural Director and part of the Office of Camps and Conferences department over that time.

The Williamsport, Pa. area native earned his bachelor of science in health and physical education and his master’s of liberal arts with a sports administration concentration both from Lock Haven.