Education
Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Since 1987, he has been the head football coach at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. From 1981 to 1986, Cater was the head football coach at Lakeland College in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Cater was made the 12th head coach of the Shepherd University Rams football team on February 9, 1987 and also served as the college"s athletic director from 1993 to 2004.
He is Shepherd College"s and the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference"s all-time winniest coach.
Before coming to Shepherd, Cater was the head coach of Lakeland College from 1980 to 1986 and is credited with reviving the college"s football program, winning the Illini-Badger Football Conference title three times.
He has been awarded the WVIAC Coach of the Year Award seven times, The Journal Coach of the Year Award and has won the WVIAC conference title 12 times. He was named the Mountain East Conference Coach of the Year in 2013. On December 6th, 2015 with a win over Slippery Rock in the Super 1 Region Final, coach Cater achieved his 250th victory as a college football coach.
