Quinn (Peoples) Carter seemed destined to a life of coaching. It is just something that runs in her family.

First, though, Quinn was a superstar athlete for the Maroons. She played softball and volleyball, and combined to earn seven varsity letters in those sports. 

Her first, love, though, is basketball. She lettered four times for the Maroons on the hardwood.

In her four years at BC, Quinn scored 1,224 points. That trailed only the great Kellie Johnson in the BC girls’ record book before Brooke Badovinac made her assault on history.

Quinn helped lead the Maroons to the Class A State title when she was a senior in 2011. That was BC’s first girls’ basketball crown since 1982.

Quinn went on to play college ball at Montana State University-Billings. She is ranked No. 2 on the Yellowjackets’ all-time 3-point list.

Making her career even more impressive was the fact that she was playing while her older sister, Mairissa, was battling for her life. Mairissa Peoples was diagnosed with cancer when she was in high school. 

After a seven-year fight, Mairissa passed away in March of 2014 — while Quinn was a junior in college.

Quinn completed her career at MSUB, and she returned home to pursue her career as a teacher and a coach. She teaches resource room students at Whittier Elementary in Butte. She has also coached the Maroons since returning home, and she was an assistant to her former coach, Meg Murphy, as BC went undefeated to win the State title in 2016.

Coach Carter just finished her second season as head coach of the BC girls. The wins haven’t been there just yet, but they will be. Anyone following the BC program knows that things are looking up.

Earlier this week, I met up with Coach Carter at the Coaches Corner of the Metals Sports Bar & Grill. Listen in to hear her talk about the optimism and hard work surrounding in her program. Listen as she talks about playing for Coach Murphy and her father, Don Peoples Jr.

Listen as she talks about her family and the strength she got from watching her sister’s heroic battle with cancer.

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