Isaac Carter was named the head football coach at Millsaps College in February of 2020. He enters his third season in fall 2022.
The fall 2021 campaign was Carter's first full season in Jackson. He coached four SAA Players of the Week and oversaw seven student-athletes named to the All-SAA Team.
In the 2021 spring season which featured a four-game schedule, Carter coached 11 All-Conference members, four NFF Hampshire Honor Society honorees and the first student-athlete in program history to be named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Football Team in Liam Vincifora. Hunter Sellen was also named to the D3Football.com Team of the Week.
In three seasons, the Majors have combined for 24 All-SAA student-athletes, 71 members on the SAA All-Academic Honor Roll, 12 NFF Hampshire Honor Society inductees and nine SAA Players of the Week.
Prior to arriving in Jackson, he worked as the defensive coordinator and was a full-time Professor of Kinesiology at Mt. San Antonio College, a community college in Walnut, California. While at Mt. SAC, the defense finished first in the conference and earned a spot in the Southern California Playoffs for JUCOs.
Prior to Mt. SAC, Carter served as the defensive coordinator at the Colorado School of Mines (NCAA DII) in Golden, Colorado, from 2015-2017. During his time with the Orediggers, he helped lead them to a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) Championship and developed a number of all-conference selections. CSM finished in the top two defensively within the RMAC in 2016 and 2017.
Carter has stops at Summit Christian School (HS) (West Palm Beach, Fla.) as head football/head track & field coach/Director of Athletics, Princeton University (FCS-NCAA) as assistant defensive backs coach, Las Vegas Locomotive (United Football League) as secondary coach, Colorado College (DIII-NCAA) as defensive coordinator, Whittier College (DIII-NCAA) as defensive coordinator/defensive backs coach and New Mexico Highlands (DII-NCAA) as the defensive backs, pass game defense, special teams and strength and conditioning coach.
Carter played JUCO football at Cerritos College, before moving on to play at Eastern Kentucky (FSC-NCAA) under legendary coach Roy Kid. Carter then finished his playing career at New Mexico Highlands University (DII-NCAA), where he was an All-Conference player his final season.
He is a graduate of New Mexico Highlands University where he received his bachelor’s degree in Human Performance and his master’s degree in Sports Administration. Carter is married to wife Nicole and they are the proud parents of four children, Anaya, Sienna, Aeneas and Ezra.
