UVa-Wise added a talented and experienced coach to aid the women's basketball leadership in new assistant coach Doug Carter. The Lady Cavaliers' coach comes to southwest Virginia after handling the head coaching duties for women's basketball and softball at the Community College of Allegheny County South in the Pittsburgh (Pa.) area for the past two years. Carter will assist ninth-year head coach Rachel Clay-Keohane. He will help to retool the program in 2007-08 with a lot of young talent dotting the roster. Over the past two years at CCAC South, the hoops coaching veteran set the school's record in both basketball and softball wins over the 2005-06 campaign. Carter also had two national all-region student-athletes in two years.
Overall, the basketball coach boasts more than 10 years of coaching experience both
as a head and assistant coach of highly competitive basketball programs. The majority of the stops Carter has made have not had a winning history. However, he has a successful track record for implementing change and helping to turn programs around at each coaching staff Carter has been associated. Before his stop at CCAC South, the central Pennsylvania native spent three seasons (2002-05) as the assistant basketball and softball coach at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in King's Point, NY. While with the Mariners, the women's hoops teams set the school record for victories and were  one of the finest defensive teams in the nation as they finished in the top 10 of several NCAA Division III defensive categories. The squad was selected as the most improved team of Division III with Carter's assistance as he recruited multiple league Rookie of the Year award winners. Carter was a graduate assistant coach from 2000-02 at NCAA Division II Lock Haven University (Pa.) where he was the Intramural Director and part of the Office of Camps and Conferences department over that time.
The Williamsport, Pa. area product earned both his bachelor of science in health and
physical education and his master's of liberal arts with a sport administration concentration both from Lock Haven.