Michael Carter (track & field athlete and football player)

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Michael Carter
Date of birth	October 29, 1960
Place of birth	Dallas, Texas
Position(s)	Nose tackle
College	SMU
NFL Draft	1984 / Round 5/ Pick 121
Pro Bowls	3
Stats
Statistics	DatabaseFootball
Team(s)
1984-1992	San Francisco 49ers

Medal record
Olympic Games
Men's Athletics
Silver	1984 Los Angeles	Shot Put

Michael D'Andrea Carter (born October 29, 1960 in Dallas, Texas), is a former U.S. Olympian track & field athlete and American pro football player.

Carter is best known in track & field for setting the national high school record of 81 feet 3 ½ inches in the 12 pound shot put, adding more than nine feet to the record previous to Carter. He set this mark at the 1979 Golden West Invitational track & field meet while competing for Jefferson High School of Dallas, TX. No high school athlete has come within five feet of this record since. In 2004 this record was selected by USA Track & Field as the 16th greatest moment in American track & field over the previous quarter century, the only high school mark to make the top 25 greatest moments.

While attending Southern Methodist University Carter won four indoor and three outdoor NCAA shot put championships. Additionally, he won the silver medal in the 1984 Olympic Games shot put.

A 6'2", 285-lb. nose tackle, Carter was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the fifth round of the 1984 NFL Draft. As a professional football player, he played his entire NFL career with the 49ers from 1984-1992. During his playing days with San Francisco, Carter was a three-time Pro Bowl selection and a three-time Super Bowl winner.

Carter is the only athlete to win an Olympic medal and a Super Bowl ring in the same year. His daughter Michelle won the 2006 NCAA outdoor shot put championship.