Whittier College

Cory White, a veteran coach with nearly two decades of football coaching experience at various levels of the game, was named head coach of the Whittier College football team on Feb. 10, 2025. He will look to follow in the footsteps of innovative Pro Football Hall of Famers George Allen and Don Coryell as he tackles the unique challenge of developing a winning formula for the program both on the field and in the classroom.

White most recently spent time at Northern Illinois University as an assistant coach for tight ends and fullbacks, however, his roots are in Southern California. He earned his bachelor's degree in education from Humboldt State University and has a master's degree from none other than Whittier College. He spent two seasons on the Whittier staff between 2004 and 2006 under Head Coach Greg Carlson, and from there would serve two different stints as a member of the Chapman University coaching staff, followed by two at New Mexico State University, and three at the University of San Diego.

He also returned to his alma mater for almost two years between 2016 and 2018, eventually serving a short stint as the interim head football coach.

White's coaching background is in developing not only quality tight end talent, but quality offensive line talent, a crucial component to any winning Division III football program. Between Chapman, USD, Humboldt State and New Mexico State, White has more than a decade of experience coaching that position group alone. During his stop at New Mexico State between 2020 and 2022, White coached one of his players, Sage Doxtater, to a second round selection in the Canadian Football League Draft.

As the tight ends coach at USD in 2018, White played a critical role in the development of tight end Dalton Kincaid, who earned HERO Sports Freshman All-America recognition and later transferred to the University of Utah before becoming a first round draft pick with the Buffalo Bills. He later had a stint at USD as the offensive coordinator and running backs coach in 2022 before making his way to Northern Illinois. The Huskies pulled off a historic upset of Division I National Championship runner-up University of Notre Dame while White was on staff this past year, and in his first season, NIU tight ends accounted for seven of the Huskies' 15 receiving touchdowns.

White's professional experience extends beyond the x's and o's, however. While at Chapman, he held the role of recruiting coordinator, and later an assistant athletics director role where he directed the game management and work study programs at the school. He then springboarded in the Director of Player Development position at New Mexico State before returning as a coach in March of 2020.