Chris White enters his second season as an assistant coach for the Colgate women’s soccer team. He joined the program in August 2011.
In his first season with the Raiders, he helped coach the 2011 team to yet another Patriot League Regular-Season Title with a 4-1-2 league mark. Colgate fell to Army in the first semi final of the PL Tournament to complete the season with an 11-6-5 overall record. The team had four players named to the All-Patriot League Teams, including the PL Offensive Player and Rookie of the Year, as well as an Academic All-Patriot League Team and an NSCAA All-Mid-Atlantic Second Team selection.
White came to Colgate after serving as the first assistant coach at Amherst College from 2010-2011, where he assisted in all aspects of the program including training, game preparation, recruiting, on-field coaching and camps/clinics to name a few. He was also on Mass ODP field and GK staff and is a member of the Region I ODP staff where he works with local premier club teams.
A 1996 graduate of Colgate University, he was also a four-year member of the Raiders’ men’s soccer team, earning All-Patriot League and NSCAA Regional All-America honors as a standout goalkeeper. White also went on to play for Perth Italia, an Australian Soccer Club. After majoring in sociology and anthropology at Colgate, he received a master’s degree in environmental science and policy from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, also earning a master’s degree in ecology and native studies from the University of North Carolina.
After coaching at the high school level in the South Bronx and Maine, White settled in Utah and took on a variety of roles. In addition to being a fifth- and sixth-grade teacher, he was the head coach of the Skyline High School girls’ varsity soccer team, head coach of two premier club soccer teams (U16 Girls Impact United, U14 Boys Impact United), head coach of Juan Diego Catholic High School, goalkeeper coach of the Utah Youth Soccer Association Olympic Development Program, and assistant coach for the U14 Boys ODP team. In 2009, White led his Skyline varsity team to a 10-1-1 league record and a regional championship.
He has a USSF "C" License, and has spent several summers working at and learning under the UNC Girls Soccer Camp. He regularly works soccer camps at UNC Girls Soccer camp, Colgate and Amherst College, is currently on staff for SoccerPlus goalkeeper camps, is a head coach of two Odyssey Club girls teams and is the Goalkeeper Co-Director for the club.
