Track & Field
2024 4A State Long Jump Champion Roy Morris, Jr.
Evangel Track & Field Head Coach
Fabian Carter Sr.
Assistant Coaches
Kendra Carter
Lesley Hulett
2024 4A State 4x2 Champions and 4x1 Runner-Up
L-R: Coach Fabian Carter, Josh Isaac, Tyreek Robinson, Johnny Casey, Roy Morris, Jr.
#5 out of 37 scoring teams at the 2024 LHSAA State Championships
5X BOYS DISTRICT CHAMPS
4X GIRLS DISTRICT CHAMPS
3X Girls Individual STATE CHAMPIONs
10X Boys Individual State Champions
Coach Fabian Carter Sr.
Coach Carter, a Miami, Fl. native was a standout football player at Miami Norland Senior HS earning All-Dade County his senior year. Carter also lettered in water polo and soccer. He attended Grambling State University from 2008-2012 on a football scholarship (2nd team ALL SWAC specialist in 2011 and a SWAC championship). Carter began his high school coaching career in 2014 while playing amateur football in Florida for 7 years, a 3 time pro bowl linebacker and won a FFA (Florida Football Alliance) championship in 2017. He decided to pursue professional football in the 2018-2019 season and had some success with the Inaugural Spring League and an opportunity to work out for the Cleveland Browns. In 2019 Carter decided to change paths by moving his family to Shreveport, La. where he is now Dean of Students, assistant head football coach, and head track coach at Evangel Christian Academy.
Coach Kendra Carter
Coach Kendra graduated from Grambling State University with a degree in criminal justice and paralegal studies. She went on to receive a master's in human resources from Nova Southeastern University.
A standout basketball player at Dillard High School in Ft. Lauderdale, FL., Coach Kendra won a state championship and four district championships. She received basketball scholarships from Xavier University of Louisiana and Morgan State University. Coach Kendra has been a youth sports coach for more than a decade.
She is married to Coach Fabian Carter Sr. and has three boys, Aiden, Fabian, Jr., and Corbin.
Coach Lesley Hulett
Coach Lesley, a native of Omaha, Nebraska, was a 4-time All-American and a Division II national champion high jumper at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. She was a three-time RMAC conference champion in the same event as well as all-conference in both the long and the triple jumps. She still holds the UNK outdoor high jump record and is top ten in the indoor high jump and indoor/outdoor triple jump. She was also a 2-time Academic All-American and was inducted into the UNK Athletic Hall of Fame in 2019.
She is married to Coach Tug Hulett and has two boys, Hudson and Cash.
Notable Alumni
Jonathan Wade - Wade won the gold medal over the 200 meters, with a time of 20.95 seconds, and the bronze medal over 100 meters at 2001 World Youth Championships in Athletics. He also won the 2001 and 2002 state titles in the 100 meters and 200 meters. He set the state records in both, 200 meters twice, with a time of 21.03 seconds as a junior and broke his own record as a senior (20.58 seconds). Broke the Louisiana indoor 55 meters record (6.22 seconds). He was also the Louisiana 2001 and 2002 Gatorade Track and Field Athlete of the Year.
Wade has also received honors for track and field while he was at the University of Tennessee. He was named All-American in 2005 for both indoor and outdoor track. Wade also anchored Tennessee's 2003 SEC champion and NCAA outdoor runner-up 4 x 100 metres relay team.
His personal bests are 6.67 seconds in the 60 meters, 10.15 seconds in the 100 meters and 20.58 seconds in the 200 meters. Wade also played five season in the NFL. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Richard Smith - Smith won LHSAA state titles in both the long and triple jumps in 1998 including a 25-2.75 (WA) performance in the long jump. Smith went on to star as a two-sport athlete at the University of Arkansas playing football and running track.