BOLIVAR, Mo. – SBU’s Director of Athletics, Brent Good, has announced that J. C. Carter has been named as the 12th head coach of Southwest Baptist University’s women’s basketball team.
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“I am pleased to announce J. C. Carter as SBU’s women’s basketball coach,” said Good. “J. C. is a fine Christian man who has a passion for basketball, and has been a part of many successful programs as an assistant coach. There are times when you give a young assistant coach the opportunity to be a head coach. I feel that to be successful, a coach needs to be a great recruiter and teacher. J. C. has both of these attributes. It will be a transition moving from coaching men to women, and J. C. will be faced with many challenges as he takes on this role. Recruiting and hiring an assistant coach are the priorities at this time. We have a great tradition here at SBU in our women’s basketball program and in the MIAA. I feel J. C. is embracing this opportunity to continue to build our women’s program. He has my full support.”
Carter, who assisted Jeff Guiot during the 2007-08 men’s championship season, graduated from SBU in 2003. In addition to his experience at SBU last season, Carter has coached men’s teams as an assistant at the University of Texas – Pan American and at California State University – Northridge. Prior to his collegiate career, he was the head coach for Village Christian High School in Los Angeles.
“I would like to thank [SBU’s President] Dr. Taylor and Brent Good for this opportunity,” said Carter. “I am very grateful to be a head coach at the college level. I’ve always prayed that God would open the door to a head coaching position in His timing, and He’s done that. Coach Middleton built an excellent program here, with a solid foundation. I believe in the mission of SBU, and that is exactly why I came back to work with Coach Guiot last season. I would like to thank Coach Guiot for the opportunity to assist with the great team we had last year.”
As a student-athlete, Carter’s basketball career included stops at SBU, Stephen F. Austin State University, and Angelina Junior College.
SBU’s head coach of the men’s team, Jeff Guiot, spoke of Carter’s impact on the Bearcats’ 2007-08 campaign.
“Coach Carter was a major part of our success last season, when we won the MIAA Championship. I hired him last year, because I knew he was a special individual with great coaching instincts. It’s nice to see that SBU recognizes the same things I saw in him. Our women’s program is getting an outstanding coach.”
Carter and his wife, Jennifer, were married in August 2007.
