Jake Carter joined the UW-River Falls baseball coaching staff as an assistant coach in the fall of 2026.
Carter arrived at UWRF after three seasons on the coaching staff at UW-Stout from 2024-26. During his tenure, the Blue Devils produced multiple All-WIAC and All-Region selections, including Justin Sedin, who earned All-WIAC recognition in consecutive seasons and established a new school career home run record with 31. In 2025, Leyton Bowers earned first-team D3baseball.com All-Region and second-team ABCA/Rawlings All-Region honors after tying the WIAC lead with 55 RBIs.
Prior to UW-Stout, Carter spent three seasons at Spoon River College in Canton, Illinois, serving as the team's hitting and infield coach from 2020-23. Under his guidance, the program established team offensive records in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, hits, doubles, home runs, RBIs, runs, stolen bases and walks. He also helped lead Spoon River to the first national ranking in program history in 2022, while the team ranked among the NJCAA's top 20 in stolen bases in 2023. Carter also founded and coached the Central Illinois Bluejays club baseball team from 2019-22.
Carter played collegiately at Eureka College from 2017-20, appearing in over 100 career games as a four-year starter. Primarily an infielder, he served as team captain during his senior season. At Carlinville High School in Illinois, Carter was a two-time All-South Central Conference First Team selection and finished his prep career as the school record holder in hits in a career (118), hits in a season (52) and stolen bases (63). He led the Illinois Class 2A ranks with 29 stolen bases in 2015.
A native of Carlinville, Ill., Carter earned a bachelor's degree in pre-law from Eureka College in 2020.
