Patrece Carter enters her first year on the Women’s Basketball staff serving as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator.
For the past two years, Carter was the head coach at North DeSoto High School in Stonewall, Louisiana where she turned a struggling program into a competitive squad. She doubled the number of wins, doubled game attendance, and placed four players on All-District 1-4A teams.
Before returning to prep basketball, Carter served as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for three seasons under former head coach Kacie Cryer at McNeese State University, where she worked exclusively with developing the Cowgirls post players, including All-Southland performer, Divine Tanks, and All-Southland and All-Louisiana performer, Damilola Balogun.
Carter spent four seasons as the head women’s basketball coach at Louisiana College (2014-2018) where she is also one of the greatest female athletes to play for the program. She was inducted into the Louisiana College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012 after one of the most successful careers in LC women’s basketball history.
Carter guided Louisiana College to three American Southwest Conference Tournament appearances (2014-15, 2016-17, 2017-18). In her first season as head coach in 2014-2015, Carter led her team to a 17-8 overall record with a 13-7 mark in conference play and a no. 3 seed in the ASC Tournament. In the 2016-17 season, Carter’s team was the lowest seed and walked away as the American Southwest Conference Tournament runners-up after knocking off the top two seeds to advance to the finals.
She took over the women’s basketball program at Winnfield Senior High School in 2010 and had instant success. In only her second season as head coach, Carter’s team won the 2011 Class 2A State Championship, she was named the Class 2A state Coach of the Year as well as the Central Louisiana Coach of the Year. She was also a three-time District 3-2A Coach of the Year (2010-2012) and was an assistant coach for the East team in the 2012 Louisiana High School Coach’s Association All-Star game. She produced three district MVP’s, one Class 2A MVP, one Class 2A Championship MVP, five All-Louisiana and seven all-state academic players.
As a player, Carter started her Lady Wildcat career off with a bang, as she was named the LC and ASC East Freshman of the year as well as ASC East Honorable Mention honors in her inaugural campaign in 2001. That set the stage for one of the finest careers in the history of Louisiana College women’s basketball.
A member of the 1,000-point club and still the holder of the single game scoring record with 45 points against the University of Texas-Tyler on January 5, 2004, Carter’s list of honors and awards put her in elite company in LC’s rich athletics history.
During Carter’s final three seasons, she was named 2nd Team All-ASC as a sophomore (2002), 1st Team All-ASC and an NCCAA Division I All-American as a junior (2003).
During her senior season, Carter was the ASC’s leading scorer and ranked 4th in all of NCAA Division III at 22.0 points per game. That season, she was named 2nd Team All-Louisiana, 1st Team All-ASC, D3Hoops.com All-South Region, the LC Female Athlete of the Year, a 2-time member of the D3hoops.com National Team of the Week, and a multiple time winner of the ASC women’s basketball Player of the Week.
Away from LC, Carter represented USA Athletes International, Inc., a team that won first place in Holland in 2003.
Carter earned her Bachelor of Biology degree from Louisiana College in 2004. She possesses two master’s degrees, one in Education Administration and Supervision from the University of Phoenix (2014), and one in Sports Management and Administration from Liberty University (2017).
