Men's Basketball

Carter Richards
Carter Richards
  • Title:
    Graduate Manager
Carter Richards is in his fourth season with Georgia Basketball. The 2024-25 season will be his first as a graduate manager with the Bulldogs after serving the previous three as an undergraduate manager.

A native of Roswell, Ga., Richards is a graduate of Lassiter High School, where he played four years of basketball and was a starter during his senior season. In addition, he played on the Trojans’ tennis team, going undefeated in doubles with his next-door neighbor Frank Hutchinson in the fall of 2019 before the spring season was cancelled due to COVID-19.

Richards joined the Georgia Basketball staff as a sophomore and helped the Bulldogs reach the Final Four of the Manager Games in New Orleans that season before falling in overtime to Michigan State. He then served as the head student manager during Mike White’s first two seasons in Athens.

Richards received and maintained the Zell Miller Scholarship throughout his academic career at Georgia and in January 2024 was featured on georgiadogs.com as part of the Hope Scholarship Spotlight Series of videos presented by the Georgia Lottery.

Richards is a survivor of childhood cancer. He was diagnosed with Leukemia in 2008 just before he turned 8 years old and has been cancer free since 2011.