Sam Houston head coach Chris Mudge is pleased to announce the addition of Jake White to his staff as an assistant coach for the 2023-24 season.
 
White, a native of Longview, comes to the Bearkats after spending the past two seasons helping lead the national powerhouse Link Academy Lions as an associate head coach. In two seasons in Branson, Missouri, he helped build a program that would tally a 61-3 record, recruit and develop four McDonald’s All Americans and have 16 players who would be ranked in the ESPN top 100.
 
During the summer, White also was an assistant coach for Mokan Elite 17u which would go on to win a Nike EYBL Peach Jam Championship in the summer of 2022 and have 12 players sign Division 1 scholarships.
 
White spent eight seasons in the junior college ranks as an assistant at Panola College (2012-15), New Mexico Military Institute (2015-16), and Kilgore College (2017-2021). As an associate head coach and recruiting coordinator for Kilgore, the Rangers had the most first-team all-conference players and finished second in wins only trailing Trinity Valley by three.
 
White helped recruit the 2020 Kilgore freshman class that would amass a 49-9 record, two Region 14 conference tournament championships, two national tournament appearances, five all conference selections (four first team and one second), two All-Americans and would reach No. 2 in the national rankings in 2022.
 
“Jake is an up-and-coming star in this business, and we are very excited to have him on staff, Mudge said. “He has been involved in creating programs that win everywhere he has coached.  With him on staff last season, Link Academy won the national championship in the toughest high school league in the country.  The esteemed MoKan AAU program he coached with won the EYBL Peach Jam last season. 
 
“Kilgore was a top 10 junior college program in the country while he was there. The list could go on and on. He just creates winning programs, players and culture everywhere he has been. Jake will be an incredible asset to our players, our program and Sam Houston.”
 
White also had Texas high school coaching stops at Fort Bend Elkins (2008-11), Temple High School (2011-12) and Trinity School of Texas (2007-08).
 
White played in college at New Mexico Military Institute, Texas A&M Kingsville and UT Tyler, earning team captain honors at NMMI.
 
As a 2003 graduate of Longview High School, he was an all-district and All-East Texas performer for the Lobos playing under Tim Martin. White graduated in the spring of 2008 from UT Tyler with a degree in history and Texas Southern University in the fall of 2011 with master’s in education administration.

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