College Sports Communicators Hall of Fame
A fixture surrounding and influencing Western Carolina Athletics for over 50 years, White served as associate athletic director, sports information director, executive director of Big Cat Club - now the Catamount Club - and created and managed the Catamount Sports Network at his alma mater. White was the Sports Information Director for 28 years (1970-1998) and the Catamount Sports Network radio announcer from 1998-2014.
In his retirement, White remains active with WCU’s Athletics Hall of Fame committee and with the Catamount Sports Network, and serves as the WCU athletics historian.
Among his numerous honors, he was a 1999 Western Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame inductee as an athletic administrator, received a WCU Distinguished Service Award (1998), the Southern Conference Distinguished Service Award (2010), and was 2016 Western North Carolina Mountain Amateur Athletic Club's Lifetime Achievement Award recipient for contributions to sports in the region. A CSC (CoSIDA) Lifetime Achievement Award winner in 1996, White was a long-time member of the organization’s writing committee and publications committee.
White also served on USA Olympic Festival and NCAA championship media staffs and received numerous national and regional publication awards during his tenure. He successfully helped 35 football, basketball, and baseball players attain All-America honors and mentored nine student and full-time assistants who became media relations/communications directors on the collegiate and professional sports levels.
From 1970 until 2011, White had a string of 499 consecutive Catamount football game attendances (including retirement) and was an eight-time recipient of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) awards for "outstanding press box service." White and his wife, Elaine, have an endowed scholarship that supports WCU student-athletes.