Sport(s) Football Record 189–87–1 Overall 221–110–2 Titles Head coach | 1981–1986 Lakeland (WI) Name Monte Cater 1987–present Shepherd Role Coach | |
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Born July 7, 1949 (age 75) Shelbyville, Illinois ( 1949-07-07 ) | ||
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Monte Cater (born July 7, 1949) is an American football coach. Since 1987, he has been the head football coach at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. From 1981 to 1986, Cater was the head football coach at Lakeland College in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
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Coaching career

Cater was made the 12th head coach of the Shepherd University Rams football team on February 9, 1987 and also served as the college's athletic director from 1993 to 2004. He is Shepherd College's and the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's all-time winniest coach. He has been awarded the WVIAC Coach of the Year Award seven times, The Journal Coach of the Year Award and has won the WVIAC conference title 12 times.
He was named the Mountain East Conference Coach of the Year in 2013.
Before coming to Shepherd, Cater was the head coach of Lakeland College from 1980 to 1986 and is credited with reviving the college's football program, winning the Illini-Badger Football Conference title three times. He currently resides in Martinsburg, West Virginia with his wife, Bonnie, and their two children, Taylor and Logan.
On December 5, 2015 with a win over Slippery Rock in the Super 1 Region Final, Cater achieved his 250th victory as a college football coach.