Coach Carter Where Are They Now: Coach Carter( Ken Carter) and His Students, Coach Carter Movie and Cast

Coach Carter

Coach Carter Where Are They Now: Ken Carter, popularly known as Coach Carter. A basketball coach, who is well known for suspending his undefeated basket team due to poor academic performance. There was a movie released in the Title “Coach Carter” based on his life.  In this article, we are about to know Where is he and his suspended students are now and details about the cast of the movie. Follow the article to know about them, Coach Carter Where Are They Now?

Who is Coach Carter?

• Ken Carter, whose real name is Kenny Ray Carter.

• He is also popularly known as ‘Coach Carter’.

• He was born in Fernwood, Mississippi on February 13, 1959. 

• He is an American Businessman, education activist and former basketball coach of high school.

• Even though he is a basketball coach, he insists that his students maintain good academic performance, in order to make their life better in terms of opportunities for college and other opportunities in life.

• During his service in Richmond High School in the year 1999, he suspended his team of high school students, who are undefeated in basketball due to their poor academic performance and got criticised initially and then later he is praised for teaching good values for the players of his team and they also got succeed and got their graduation

• This portion of his life was made into a movie titled “Coach Carter”, which stars Samuel L. Jackson As Coach Carter.

Coach Carter (Movie):

Coach Carter is an  American Biopic teen sports drama movie released on January 14, 2005. It was directed by Thomas Carter and written by Mark Schwahn and John Gatins. The movie was produced by David Gale, Brian Robbins, and  Michael Tollin and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The movie starred Samuel L .  Jackson as Coach Carter. The plot of the movie was about the Coach of a high school basketball team named Ken Carter, who suspends his high school undefeated basket team due to their poor academic performance. The movie talks about professional ethics, athletics and academics.

Coach Carter Movie and Cast

Coach Carter is an  American Biopic teen sports drama movie released on January 14, 2005. The plot of the movie was about the Coach of a high school basketball team named Ken Carter, who suspends his high school undefeated basket team due to their poor academic performance. The movie talks about professional ethics, athletics and academics.

The cast of the movie includes, 

Coach Carter Cast Where are they now?

It’s been 16 years since the movie “Coach Carter” got released, which was released in 2005. 

Let’s see what the casts of the movie are upto now,

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel Jackson is now one of the most successful and highest-grossing actors of Hollywood. Some of his popular hit movies are Jungle Fever, Jurassic Park, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, A Time to Kill, and the Stars Wars prequel trilogy. He got more popular by his role of Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s ( MCU)  movies. Apart from MCU, He is also known for his roles in Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Kong: Skull Island, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, and Shaft. 

Channing Tatum

He was debuted in the movie Coach Carter 16 years ago. He was received well by the audience and they know that he will be one of the biggest movie stars in future. His Notable movies are 21 Jump Street, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Foxcatcher, Hail, Caesar! and The Hateful Eight, Dear John and The Vow,  Magic Mike. He married Jenna Dewan, who co-starred on his Step-Up movie. They remained together for 10 years and hey had a daughter and they got separated in April 2018. After his break-up with Jenna Dewan, he dated a singer Jessie J and they got break-up after one year.

Rick Gonzalez

He played the role of Timo cruz in the Coach Carter movie. After 41 years, he is now busy with so many projects. Some of his notable movies are War of the Worlds, For Your Consideration, The Guilt Trip and Deuces. He also made some guest appearances in movies like Bones, Blue Bloods, NCIS and Mr. Robot. After some time his bigbreak came i 2016, in the CW’s  Arrow as Wild Dog.

Ashanti

After Coach Carter, she starred in John Tucker Must Die, Resident Evil: Extinction, A Christmas Winter Song. She released two album songs in 2008 and 2014 respectively. Ashanti dated Nelly for 10 years and they ended it in 2014. 

Antwon Tanner

He is already a well known actor, when he acted in the movie Coach Carter. Some of his notable roles are One Tree Hill, Get Shorty, Black Jesus, Rizzoli & Isles, The Carmichael Show, The Rookie and Rosewood. He got arrested in 2010 and kept in prison for three months for a scam.

Robert Ri’chard

He got well recognised for his role in Coach Carter movie as the Coach’s son. Some of his other notable roles are in Veronica Mars, The Vampire Diaries, Lucifer, iZombie, Chocolate City and Bolden. He is the founder of Highway Fit for fitness and nutrition program.

Rob Brown

After his role in Coach Carter, he reunited with Channing Tatum in 20007’s Stop-Loss and starred in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Night Rises in 2012 and  Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut Don Jon. He’s Starring on HBO’s hit series Blindspot since 201

What is Coach Carter (Ken Carter) doing now?

After the incident, he continued his coaching to students of other sports, except basketball. He coached a team named Rumble, a Slamball team and led them to win their fist Slamball Cup victory in 2001 / 2002. He also carried the Olympic Torch in the 2002 Winter Olympics and he said that it was the greatest moment of his life. He also created an academy called Impact Academy and helped to elevate the lives of many students. After Completing his service and retiring from coaching, he is now a motivational speaker and he enjoys it.

What are Ken Carter’s Students doing now?

 Many of his students were also succeeded in their life. Wayne Oliver is notable among them. He played on the international pro basketball circuit and he played all around the world such as Japan, China, Dubai, Egypt, Canada, and Mexico. He retired a few years ago and he joined the motivational speaking circuit under Carter. Oliver is the best example of  Carter’s teaching lessons. In 2018, Ken Carter reunited with his former students and players at Richmond High School,  and he expressed his motto “Listen, I don’t need a 15-year-old friend. I need you to go to school and get your education so you can help me get my Social Security check,” he said.

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