Bio

Jim Carter played tennis and basketball at Arkansas City Junior College from 1955-1957. He was the state doubles champion in 1956 and won the state singles title a year later.

He transferred to Wichita State University and was singles and doubles runner-up in the Missouri Valley Conference in 1958 and singles and doubles champion in 1959.

After a stint in the Army, he graduated from WSU in 1966.

For more than 20 years, he has been head tennis coach at Coronado High School in Lubbock, Texas. The Texas Tennis Coaches Association named him Coach of the Year in 1988 and 2000, and he was inducted into that organization's Hall of Fame in 1992.

He lives in Lubbock, Texas.