Antoine Carpenter will return to Wabash College as an assistant basketball coach and assistant to the athletics director.
Carpenter, an art major and history minor, graduated from Wabash in 2000. He was a two-year starter at guard for the Little Giants’ basketball team. He tallied 161 assists over his four years in a Wabash uniform, including 105 as a senior. Carpenter was part of the Little Giants’ two ICAC championship teams and played in the NCAA Division III Basketball Tournament as a sophomore and junior. Wabash finished with a record of 83-26 over the four years of his playing career.
"I’m pleased and excited to have Antoine back at Wabash," Head Coach Mac Petty said. "I’m not only thrilled for his return to campus, but for him being a part of our program. He understands what winning means and can relate that to our players."
Carpenter worked for a year at Covad before returning to college coaching ranks, serving as a graduate assistant coach at Franklin College for two seasons. During that time he helped prepare practice plans, created scouting reports and film breakdowns on opponents, and made recruiting visits and calls to potential student-athletes. He also set up study tables for incoming freshman at Franklin, meeting with them once a week to chart their academic progress.
He was hired by Brownsburg High School in June, 2005, as an in-school suspension monitor and assistant varsity basketball coach, helping the Bulldogs to a 26-20 record over two seasons. Three Brownsburg players he worked with at Brownsburg received NCAA Division I basketball scholarships. Carpenter has also worked at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield for the past year.
"My experience at Wabash as a student and as a basketball player was tremendous," Carpenter said. "I look forward to the opportunity of working with Coach Petty again, and with an outstanding group of players."
Carpenter begins his duties on September 1.