Greg Carter

Greg Carter (born July 29, 1954) is an American football coach and former collegiate and professional baseball player. He is currently the head coach of the Oak Park High School Knights in Oak Park, Michigan in Metro Detroit. He previously coached the Inkster High School Vikings in Inkster, Michigan and the Saint Martin de Porres High School Eagles in Detroit, Michigan. He has been a coach on 12 Michigan state championship football teams, eight as an assistant coach and four as a head coach. Carter previously played baseball at Kentucky State University, where he was selected as a college baseball All-American, and in the Detroit Tigers minor league organization. In 2009, he was inducted in Kentucky State University Hall of Fame. High school and college Carter was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was an All-American baseball player and quarterback at Mackenzie High School in Detroit. In his junior year of high school, he was part of both the Detroit Public School League championship baseball team and the Mackenzie football team that won the divisional title, both led by coach Ron "Thomp" Thompson. After high school, Carter attended Kentucky State University. Carter played baseball as a catcher at Kentucky State and was selected as a college baseball All-American. He helped lead Kentucky State to its first NAIA baseball championship in 1976. Minor League Baseball After playing baseball at Kentucky State, Carter played Minor League Baseball for one season, in 1976, in the Detroit Tigers farm system, having stints with the Montgomery Rebels, Lakeland Tigers, Bristol Tigers.