Zander Carter was on campus this past weekend for a visit to Liberty. The 2025 guard still has two years of high school remaining before he begins his collegiate career.

Carter is from Ashland, Kentucky where he attends Paul G. Blazer High School, the same school that produced current Liberty guard Colin Porter. Carter is 6’6″ and averaged about 22 points and 6 rebounds per game during his 10th grade year this past season while also shooting near 50% from the floor and almost 40% from three.

“I had an amazing time,” Carter said of his trip to Lynchburg. “Everyone was super genuine and it felt like everyone was welcoming me in like home.”

This was Carter’s second trip to Liberty after taking an unofficial visit for senior night against Queens near the end of this past season.

“Getting to know the guys and knowing the coaching staff on a more personal level,” Carter said when speaking of the highlight of his trip. “This is such an important decision in my life, where I want to go to college and where I want to continue playing basketball. Getting to know them on a personal level is a big thing.”

Liberty is one of a few offers Carter has already picked up including Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee Tech. He has taken unofficial visits to Marshall and Ohio State and has a trip scheduled to Furman for later this month.

“I’ve known Colin for a while now,” Carter said of the rising Liberty sophomore guard Colin Porter. “I’ve known him since I was real young, we played AAU a little bit together. We played two years of high school together.”

Carter has stepped into a leadership role after Porter has left high school. The pair are a big part of five straight state tournament teams at Ashland.

“He’s telling me how much he loves it, how great it is at Liberty,” Carter said of some of the conversations he has had with Porter. “He’s like, ‘You need to come here. We all want you and it would be great if you did.’ He’s real honest about it. He hasn’t said a bad thing about Liberty at all, it’s all been great and positive stuff.”

Carter has no timeline for when he would like to make his collegiate decision as he is still very early in this process. The Flames hope he continues the recent pipeline of Kentucky players heading to Liberty.

“It’s when God puts it on my heart,” Carter said of when he will be ready to commit to a school. “There’s not a timeline I want to go by because if I don’t hold myself to that i wouldn’t be holding myself accountable. It’s when God calls me to that school that I want to go to and it’s 100% I want to go there, I’m going to make my decision. It will be a faith based decision.”