Als assistent -coach en directeur van spelerontwikkeling aan de Universiteit van Texas in Austin, heeft Sydney Carter een cruciale rol gespeeld bij het brengen van zijn damesbasketbalteam naar de Elite Eight in het NCAA -toernooi van 2025. Naast het demonstreren van haar coaching dapperheid, heeft Carter, een gepensioneerde WNBA -speler, ook wijdverbreide aandacht getrokken voor haar spoelaglooks.
Carter’s courside style is not always celebrated. In fact, the 34-year-old Texas Longhorns coach has been criticized because he chooses to use fashion as a means for self-expression on the field.
“I just think people feel uncomfortable with a black woman in a dominant position,” Carter told Yahoo Life in 2022. “If you see a black woman who is really confident and hugs herself, I think that is very intimidating.”
Criticism of Carter and her game day in the game day hit on 6 February 2022, when the Texas A&M Aggies stood opposite the Kentucky Wildcats. Carter, who was the assistant coach at the time for Texas A&M, stepped on the Memorial Coliseum Court in Lexington, Ky., Bubblegum-Pink carried leather pants, a ribbed, white turtleneck and nude chopping with bright vinyl tires. Although the outfit is a nod according to the breast cancer’s consciousness during the Basketball Season Awareness Game of 2021/22, some viewers wondered if Carter’s Look “was appropriate as a basketball coach”.
“I still get my job at the end of the day, and not once I am hindered in wearing high heels or leather pants or just if I wanted to wear denim on the couch,” Carter said Good morning America In 2022. “I am not the first person who is wearing heels on the couch or wearing leather pants, and I will not be the last one.”
Carter started to dress for games during the Coronavirus Pandemie. While other coaches were in a standard uniform of quarter-Zip sweaters and kaki-pants, Carter chose a different direction.
“When I started working under the coach that I played at the university, he was always like:” You wear what you want to wear. You don’t let anyone tell you that this is too much or this is extra. ” He said, “Just be yourself,” “Carter told” for the record “to Spotify’s” for the record. ” And so I and he were at the nine, and I feel at ease.
Carter still remains faithful to himself. Instead of having the criticism influenced her style on the Court, she continues to take instructions from her own playbook.
Her decision to bring personal style to the field has even inspired the women she coaches, such as Texas Longhorns Vooruit Aaliyah Moore.
“It’s nice to have a black woman to look up a bit and we are both of fashion,” Moore said about her coach in a statement to Yahoo Entertainment. “While [Carter] Maybe your ass hit the field, she was also very feminine outside the field, and she was just herself. “
For Moore, Carter serves as an example for future coaches who may also have a flair for fashion.
“I feel that if I went into the coaching room, I would also be very expressive with how I dress,” she went on. “So it’s a bit like she’s clearing the way for someone like me to be less nervous to do it because I see Sydney doing it, so why can’t I do that?”
Carter is no stranger to sharing her Gameday cooks on social media. On Instagram, where she has and counts 1.5 million followers, the Texas Longhorns Assistant Coach often places photos of her outfit of every game.
Carter’s style playbook seems limitless. When she does not pull lively suits from the collection that she has designed in collaboration with the Ollarsgrace brand, Carter mixes fabrics and plays in her eclectic aesthetics.
Carter is born and raised in Texas and often uses fashion as a nod to her home. At the beginning of March Carter wore a slender, coordinating dark denim look. The silver accents on the buttons of the shirt, the buckle of the belt and the toes of her black boots made for refined finish. A week later Carter released her pattern game when she coordinated her cow printing with knee -high cow print boots, which she combined with a dark brown skirt suit.
In a similar representation of State Pride, the Texas A&M Aluin stepped out in a light denim look in February with folds along the chest and wrists. She strengthened the Texan flair with a Longhorn Bolo -Stropdas.
Danielle Holmes, a fan of Carter, left a comment about the outfit on Instagram. “Every game I am looking for Coach Carter and what you wear that game,” she wrote. “You eat every time! This is how it turned out differently! I love this era of Cowgirl.”
Carter also wore a black and white polka-dot sweater with “Texas” embroidered in cursive and a statement cow print belt with an elegant silver buckle that matched its cow print sandals in December 2024.
‘This young lady can put on a shower curtain and make it [fire emojis]”Instagram user Danita Matthews wrote in a comment about Carter’s embroidered sweater look.” Style is unparalleled! “
Also one of the biggest hits in Carter is the cherry red, snake-printed Balmain suit and black Saint Laurent pumps that she wore in January and the light pink, Gucci-logo-brei with matching pink pants she wore for breast cancer consciousness month this year.
Carter also demonstrated that she is no stranger to method dressing when she is the field in a strapless, red latex dress with three -dimensional hearts for Valentine’s Day this year. She combined the dress with a fresh white button-up and red and white striped sandals.
Whether Carter’s courtside looks or not as too much is experienced is never a problem for her.
“I can’t leave my curves at the end of the day at home. I have to be authentic every day because it’s all I have,” she told Enscape in 2023. “I feel it was my time to lead [the conversation] In the form of not just being a black woman, not just being a winding woman, but I am a woman in a men -dominated profession. So every day, every game, you get the same black, winding woman and her outfit. “
Fashion, for Carter, is a source of her vitality.
“At the end of the day I want to be everything on the right,” she told Tamron Hall in the talk show of the TV guest in 2024 in 2024. “And when I turn on my clothes, that is my super power.”
