Adam Carter

Adam started coaching volleyball in 2015 as assistant coach for Unity 13’s. His daughter played on this team and fell in love with coaching club volleyball. After two years of assisting he took the opportunity to be a head coach at Unity and has continued to be a head coach from 2017- 2024 before moving to MAVA to be the 16’s Black travel team. In 2022 his Unity 15’s team came tied for 9th overall in Gold at Nationals in Orlando Florida. In 2023 his Unity 16’s team won multiple gold and silver medals throughout the season and finished ranked in the top 10 in the pioneer region.

Since 2015 he has also coached at St. Nicholas Academy from grades 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th. One of the best accomplishments at St. Nicholas Academy was coaching alongside now MAVA’s 17 Elite Kelly Hollis and winning the CSAA City Championship in 2019.

In 2021 he started his high school coaching as an assistant coach at Holy Cross high school and continued through 2023. In 2024, he became the head varsity coach for Seneca High School where he continued the long streak for Seneca of district runner up and playing in the regional tournament.

Adam really enjoys coaching competitive volleyball and is a huge advocate of female sports. He likes to push his players to compete at their highest level to help them achieve their goals. He believes there are so many life lessons to be learned from the game of volleyball and to be able incorporate those with providing a place for the players to feel safe and not worry about all the outside pressures and to just be themselves is what he enjoys most about coaching… and of course winning!

Outside of volleyball he retired from a long career at Louisville Water Company where he worked for 23 and a half years. During almost the last 10 years at Louisville Water he was the AFSCME Local 1683 Union President. He is currently the regional Assistant Director for AFSCME Council 962 for Indiana and Kentucky. Adam enjoys sports in general including hunting and fishing. After playing baseball and football in high school for all 4 years, he started playing competitive softball and competed for 14 years. The sport he loves to play the most but also sometimes hates is golf. He has been playing non-competitively since he was a teenager. Golf like volleyball is very technical but it is also so mental. He loves not only the physical but the mental challenge you face while playing golf.

This is Adam’s first year at MAVA and is looking forward to having great success with his team. He will give 110% everyday he is coaching his team and will expect the same from his players. He promotes a positive culture, teamwork, technical skills, fundamentals and out hustling the opponent. In the end Adam’s goal is for the girls to be an even better person then they were before and to prepare them for the life that is ahead of them.