Gerrard Carmichael enters his first season at Sacramento State for the 2025-26 season, and will serve as the team’s director of basketball operations.
Carmichael brings 20 years of coaching experience to the Hornets. That includes working with Mike Bibby for the Team Dime AAU program where he directed the organization’s daily operations while also serving as the recruiting coordinator and head coach from 2017-22.
Most recently, Carmichael spent two seasons (2022-24) as the head women’s basketball coach at Yavapai College in Prescott, Ariz.
From 2004-17, Carmichael was the head women’s basketball coach at both Horizon High School in Scottsdale from 2011-17, and Shadow Mountain High School in Phoenix from 2004-11.
While at Horizon, the Glendale, Ariz., native led the program to a regional championship in 2017 (the first one at the school since 1984), a No. 3 state ranking in 2017, and saw his team finish in the top eight each year from 2015-17.
During his time at Shadow Mountain, his squad made the playoffs from 2006-08, finished in the final four in 2009, won a state championship in 2010 (the first in school history) and earned state runner-up honors in 2011. From 2009-11, the Matadors ranked No. 1 in the state. Carmichael also spent one season as the men’s assistant coach at Shadow Mountain, helping guide them to a state title in 2000.
From 2000-11 (and while coaching at Shadow Mountain), Carmichael also held the title of Director of Recruiting/Operations for the Team Bibby Basketball Club, coaching U17 men’s basketball while seeing 85 percent of his players go on to play collegiate basketball.
Other coaching positions that Carmichael held include assistant women’s coach at Utah Valley from 1996-00, and Pepperdine before that.
Carmichael played collegiately at both Scottsdale Community College (1983-84) and Feather River Community College (1982-83). At Scottsdale, he served as the team captain and starting point guard while leading the team in assists and steals.
In high school, Carmichael played at Shadow Mountain and earned North Valley Player of the Year honors in 1982 in addition to all-state accolades in both football and basketball.
He earned his master’s degree in business leadership from Grand Canyon in 2015, and bachelor’s degree in health/business integrated studies from Utah Valley in 2000.
Carmichael and his wife, Barbie, have four children.
