BEVERLY, Mass. — Earlier this week, former Endicott student-athlete Tell White '15 (New Castle, N.H.) was elevated to the position of interim head coach for the Emmanuel College men's basketball program.
White takes over the program from Danny Lawson who accepted an assistant coaching position on the men's basketball staff at NCAA Division I UMBC earlier this month. Lawson's name may sound familiar to Endicott fans as he served as an assistant coach at The Nest during the 2017-18 season prior to his three-year appointment at Emmanuel.
Meanwhile, as for White, the former Gull inherits 12 returning student-athletes and four newcomers to his 2020-21 roster. The Saints will open up next year's campaign against Framingham State University in the Emmanuel Tip-Off Classic on Friday, November 12.
No stranger to the sidelines, White began his coaching career at Endicott in 2015-16, becoming immediately invested in all facets of the program, including recruiting, scouting, and player development.
From 2016 through 2018, White served as a Player Development Intern for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the associate head coach at Huron High School.
As an intern, White worked with the coaching staff during the preseason to help analyze plays and rotations and was responsible for developing scouting reports on NBA players. As the associate head coach, White helped lead Huron High to become the runner-up in the Class A Southeastern Conference.
Since joining the Saints' staff in the fall of 2018, White has helped the program post a 37-15 (.712) record over two official seasons of play, including a 15-7 record in Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) action. He also was a member of the 2019 D3Hoops.com Northeast Region Coaching Staff of the Year that led the team to an 18-8 record to show an overall improvement of 14.5 games from the previous campaign, the largest turnaround in the country.
He followed up his stellar Emmanuel coaching debut with a 19-7 mark in 2019-20, posting the program's highest single-season winning percentage at .731 while leading the Saints to a home GNAC playoff berth for the second consecutive season.
(major portions of this press release courtesy of the Emmanuel College Sports Information Department)
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