Larkin grad Carter perseveres, turns Young program around.(Sports Extra)

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Byline: John Radtke Corry Carter was in an unenviable position to start this season. Beginning her third year as the head girls basketball coach at Whitney Young High School in Chicago, Carter and her Dolphins entered the season ranked No. 13 in the nation by USA Today. Not bad for a program that the year before Carter's arrival didn't have 10 wins.

But there was, and still is, criticism because Young has not unseated Marshall as the city's best girls basketball program. "We might be criticized a lot but we went from eight wins to being nationally ranked," says Carter, whose first two teams at Young went 21-10 and 21-8. Carter is a 1992 Larkin graduate who helped the Royals to a regional title her senior season, which was the last regional Larkin...