Hailing from Anchorage, Alaska, Carle attended prep school at Shattuck-Saint Mary's in Faribault, Minnesota. After his career at Shattuck, Carle was projected to be a second-round pick in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. While preparing for the draft an abnormality was detected during the NHL combine and after undergoing tests at the Mayo Clinic Carle was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an enlargement of a heart muscle.[2] While the genetic abnormality is not immediately life-threatening, it has been shown to be a leading cause of sudden death in athletes.[3] The diagnosis caused Carle to retire from ice hockey as a player, but despite the end of his career he was still drafted 203rd overall in the seventh and final round by the Tampa Bay Lightning.[4] Then-owner Oren Koules's son attended Shattuck-Saint Mary's at the same time as Carle; Koules directed general manager Jay Feaster to select Carle in recognition of Carle's hard work.
The University of Denver honored the scholarship it had offered to Carle and he began attending the school in the fall of 2008. Wanting to keep him as part of the team, head coach George Gwozdecky offered Carle a place as an assistant coach with the program as long as he was a student at Denver.[5] What started out as a tentative effort to see if Carle was still interested in the game eventually turned into a full-time coaching position. After graduating from Denver in 2012, Carle joined the Green Bay Gamblers of the United States Hockey League (USHL) as an assistant coach, but returned to Denver less than two years later as an assistant under then-new head coach Jim Montgomery.[6] Carle stayed with the Pioneers for four years, helping the team win the 2017 national championship, before he replaced Montgomery as head coach in 2018.
In 2023–24 season, he led Denver to its record-breaking 10th national championship in the 2024 Frozen Four as a first seed (third overall), where they defeated Boston College 2–0.
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
Conference regular season champion
Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
Division regular season champion
Division regular season and conference tournament champion
Conference tournament champion
^Maron, Barry J. (September 11, 2003). "Sudden Death in Young Athletes". New England Journal of Medicine. 349 (11): 1064–1075. doi:10.1056/NEJMra022783. PMID12968091.