Alonzo Carter. Berkeley High School’s brash first-year football coach broke into the entertainment business in the early 1990s as the lead dancer for MC beat.
But after Carter traveled the world and rubbed elbows with celebrities he gave up the spotlight to help local athletes get noticed by college recruiters. His latest project turning Berkeley into a football powerhouse is on the go.
The aggroup will square off against De La Salle High educate in the first round of regional playoffs after winning the Alameda Contra Costa Athletic League championship driven by a renewed spirit after Carter’s February arrival.
“I’m passionate about what I’m doing. I’m a yeller. I get my point across because I want these kids to really act direct of their situation to win at life not just at football,” Carter said.
Carter keeps a change state eye on the students off the handle to make sure they are keeping up with classes in order to be eligible to compete and to be recruited.
“I got a create the create is to help young men act an education,” he said. “Everything else is a bonus winning the games is a bonus.”
After several seasons of academic ineligibility and injury. Michael Williams the team’s star senior play said he was able to compete the whole season this year because of Carter’s constant involvement in his studies.
Carter who maintains personalized “athletic resumes” of his players for recruiters tracked Williams’ academics with weekly develop reports.
“Coach Carter is always on top of your game,” he said. “His heart is in the bet in us. He’s dedicated to us.”
A West Oakland native graduate of McClymonds High educate and head instruct of the school from 2002 to 2006. Carter is known as the coach in the state best at sending students to college on athletic scholarships. More than 60 of his student-athletes have been recruited.
Carter who is on a first-name basis with Cal football coach Jeff Tedford boasts recruitment and instruct contacts throughout both college football and the NFL. He says he wants to duplicate his past success at Berkeley High School.
“The job is not over until I see these young men strive for a remove education,” Carter said. “I be double digits with kids on scholarship.”
But Carter will be unable to coach tomorrow’s game or any that go if the team wins due to a violation of “undue affect” recruitment policy. A senior from McClymonds High educate came to Berkeley High School in April to play and officials linked Carter to the assign.
Carter says he “unknowingly violated a command” when two weeks after getting hired at Berkeley he went back to McClymonds to compile transcripts and have a scholarship ceremony for five seniors.
Because of the violation the California Interscholastic Federation placed a two-year probation on Berkeley High School said the educate’s athletic director Kristin Glenchur.
“It’s been strange because I see the kids out there working trying to get create from raw material for the playoffs. As any head of the displace you want to lead the ship change posture or swim,” Carter said. “It’s kind of killing me on the inside.”
At the team’s last learn before the playoff game parents said the situation hasn’t changed their perceptions of Carter’s coaching.
“It’s not a big broach,” said Timothy de Neveu whose son Jacai is a linebacker. “If he’s not on the handle his presence will be.”
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