Mark White - Men's Basketball Coach

Mark White

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
mrw92@msstate.edu

EDUCATIONAL
BACKGROUND

High School: Olmstead [Ky.] High School (1982)
College: Austin Peay State University (1988)
Graduate School: Austin Peay State University (1989)

COACHING
BACKGROUND

1988-89: Graduate Assistant Coach, Austin Peay State University
1989-90: Volunteer Assistant Coach, Austin Peay State University
1990-92: Assistant Coach, Pikeville (Ky.) College
1992-93: Assistant Coach, Wabash Valley (Ill.) College
1993-94: Assistant Coach, Georgia Southern University
1994-95: Assistant Coach, Barton County (Kan.) Community College
1995-96: Assistant Coach, Jacksonville (Texas) College
1996-00: Assistant Coach, North Idaho College
2000-02: Head Coach, Central Hardin (Ky.) High School
2002-04: Coordinator of Men's Basketball Operations, Mississippi State University
2004-present: Assistant Coach, Mississippi State University

Beginning his fifth season overall with the Bulldog basketball family, Mark White is in his third season as an assistant coach on Rick Stansbury's Mississippi State staff after serving two previous campaigns as the staff's coordinator of men's basketball operations.

Previously involved primarily with the coordination of the Bulldogs' travel arrangements as well as having scheduling and film exchange responsibilities, White is now charged with primary responsibilities in the wide-ranging areas of scouting preparation, on-floor gameday coaching, scheduling, film exchange, recruiting, and various assigned administrative duties.

During his first four seasons on the Mississippi State coaching staff, White has played an integral role in helping direct the nationally ranked Bulldogs to three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, including the team's record-setting SEC championship season of 2003-04. Along with helping MSU to an average of 21 wins per season since his arrival on the State scene in 2002, including the club's 26-4 overall record and school-best 14-2 SEC mark in 2003-04, White has also been associated with back-to-back SEC West title-winning teams in 2003 and 2004.

With nearly 20 years of coaching and teaching experience at both the collegiate and high school levels, White rejoined the NCAA Division I coaching ranks in September 2002, after serving two seasons as the head boys basketball coach and special education instructor at Central Hardin High School in Cecilia, Ky.

Prior to moving back to his home state of Kentucky in 2000, White served as an assistant coach for four seasons at North Idaho College in Coeur d'Alene, where he helped tutor former MSU point guard Todd Myles. While at NIC, White helped direct coach Hugh Watson's Cardinals to a 30-6 record in 1996-97, highlighted by a school-best, fourth-place national finish at the 1997 NJCAA Tournament.

A long-time association with veteran junior college head coach and current Trinity Valley Community College head man Patrick Smith preceded White's move to Idaho. During back-to-back seasons at two different schools under Smith's guidance, White first served as an assistant coach on the staff at Barton County Community College in Kansas, which achieved a No. 3 national ranking during the 1994-95 regular season. The following year, the coaching tandem teamed up to help guide Jacksonville (Texas) College to a No. 7 national ranking in the NJCAA poll during the 1995-96 basketball campaign.

Prior to a one-year stint (1993-94) as an assistant basketball coach at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, White first began his coaching association with Smith on the staff of Wabash Valley College in Mount Carmel, Ill. In one season together at MVC, White and Smith jointly guided the 1992-93 Warriors ballclub to a ninth-place team finish at the prestigious NJCAA Tournament.

A native of Russellville, Ky., White's first full-time coaching job after graduation came in his home state of Kentucky as an assistant basketball coach for two seasons (1990-92) at Pikeville College.

Having received both his bachelor's (1988) and master's (1989) degrees from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., White initially worked together with MSU's current head basketball coach on Lake Kelly's APSU coaching staff 18 years ago. With White aiding as a graduate assistant coach, while Stansbury served as a full-time assistant coach on Kelly's Austin Peay staff, the Governors finished the 1988-89 season with an 18-12 overall record and advanced to the championship game of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament for the second consecutive season.

White stayed on as a volunteer assistant coach at Austin Peay for the 1989-90 campaign after completing his master's program with a degree in health/physical education and a minor in administration and supervision.

A member of the Logan County (Ky.) Athletic Hall of Fame with experience as a Special Olympics volunteer, White lettered in baseball (3 years), basketball (2) and tennis (1) as a standout athlete at Olmstead (Ky.) High School.

White, 42, married the former Brittany Wagner of Clinton, Miss., this past summer. He has one son, Cade, 7.