Anthony White Jr is entering his third season as a men’s basketball assistant at Charleston Southern for the 2023-24 season. White joined the Buccaneers after being hired on June 1, 2021.
White joined the Buccaneer staff after one season as an assistant coach at Ferrum College in the 2020-21 season. While at Ferrum, White was responsible for scouting, player development, and offensive strategies. White helped the Panthers to their first back-to-back winning season in 12 years. They also made it to the semi-finals of the conference tournament for the first time in over five years.
Prior to arriving to Ferrum College, White served as the Assistant Men's Basketball Coach at Earlham College, a division III program in Richmond, Indiana. His responsibilities included player development, scouting, and recruiting, gameday set-up, mentoring players, managing social media accounts, and monthly newsletters. At his time with the Quakers, Earlham had a student-athlete lead all of DI, DII, and DIII in 3-point FG %, they recorded the most conference wins in a season in 15 years, and they led all DIII in 3-point FG % as a team.
White also spent three years prior to Earlham at Lincoln Middle School as the Basketball and Track Coach where he was able to teach young athletes the proper techniques and skills to be successful in each sport. While coaching at Lincoln, White also did player development for high schoolers around the city of Indianapolis.
A native of Indianapolis, Indiana, White was a standout guard at Pike high school, a school known for its basketball tradition. After graduating from Pike, White was a guard at Lake Land College. While at Lake Land, White worked his way to being a 1st team all-conference and 1st team all-region guard. White eventually ended up at Mercer University, where he was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Tournament Team in 2014. White also led the conference in 3-point percentage (43%) that same year. White and his Mercer basketball team is famously known for upsetting Duke University in the second round of the 2013-14 NCAA National tournament. After his college days, White went overseas to Australia to play in the South East Australian Basketball League for one season, where he was the youngest import in league history (21) and averaged 18 points, four assists and three rebounds a game.
