Jessica Carter arrived at Florida Atlantic in July of 2025 as the cross country/track and field assistant coach.
Carter joins the staff after spending the past seven years at Charles Flanagan High School, where the boys' cross country team won the district title. She also coached the girls to back-to-back district titles in the last two years. Carter was the 4A-3A Boys Coach of the Year. Prior to coaching high school, Carter spent eight years at FIU as an assistant and head coach of the track and field program. She started her time as a Panther as an assistant coach, mainly focused on long sprints, and, after four years, was elevated to head coach.
Prior to her time at FIU, she spent three years as an assistant men's and women's track and field coach at Morgan State University, where she was responsible for recruiting long and short sprinters.