The 6-foot-1, 185-pound senior won the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.22 seconds and the 300-meter hurdles in 37.74 at the Class 3A state meet this season, leading the Lightning to the championship as a team. A First Team All-Metro selection as named
Carter has maintained a 3.90 weighted GPA in the classroom and represents one of the state's top academic candidates in meeting the Gatorade award's broad criteria.
A member of the National Honor Society and his school's Alpha Achievers chapter, he has donated his time as a youth football instructor, as a mentor to Bonnie Branch Middle School students and as part of a program dedicated to equipping women victimized b
