Taylor University Women's Cross Country

White, who was named the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Crossroads League Coach of the Year, ranks second in Taylor history with an all-time record of 454-85 at the helm of the womens cross country program and is TUs all-time winning percentage leader with a career clip of .842 entering the 2016 campaign. During Whites tenure, the Trojans have posted the 10-fastest team times and logged seven of the top-15 individual times in school history. In six seasons at the helm of the Taylor womens cross country program, White has helped the Trojans to three Crossroads League Championships and a trio of top-11 finishes at the NAIA National Championships. The program has also racked up 30 NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors, 25 All-Crossroads League awards and one NAIA All-America honor over that time. The 2015 campaign saw the Trojans post a 91-3 team clip, while winning four-of-six regular season races and storming to the programs third-straight Crossroads League Championship. Taylor rattled off five of the eight-fastest times in program history, climbed to as high as No. 4 in the nation to match its highest NAIA Top-25 ranking and placed three individuals inside the top-100 finishers at the NAIA National Championships for the third-straight year, while ending 11th as a team. The squad was equally as impressive off the course, leading the Crossroads League and posting the 15th-highest grade-point average of any team in any sport with a collective mark of 3.77. White guided Taylor to a regular season clip of 97-4 in 2014, en route to a 10th-place finish at NAIA Nationals and a second-straight Crossroads League Championship. The Trojans claimed meet victories at the Ray Bullock Invitational, Indiana Intercollegiates and Crossroads Championships, while matching the programs highest national ranking with a No. 4 mark. TU also set a program record with four individual finishers inside the top-100 at NAIA Nationals. The 2014 season followed an equally dominant breakout year in 2013 for the Trojans, as White guided TU to a regular season mark of 96-4, a Crossroads League Championship and a 10th-place showing at NAIA Nationals. Taylor set a new school-record time of 92:49 during TUs championship run at the Great Lakes Invite, climbed to a program-best NAIA No. 4 ranking and became the first Taylor team to place two runners inside the top-50 and three inside the top-100 at NAIA Nationals. In addition to his role as head coach of the womens cross country team, White has served as an assistant coach with the womens track and field program since 2011 and filled the role of interim head coach for the Trojans in 2014. White was honored as the USTFCCCA Womens Track and Field Assistant Coach of the Year in 2016. During his time specializing with the distance and javelin events over the last six seasons, Whites student-athletes have piled up 15 indoor school records, 51 NAIA Indoor National Qualifiers and four NAIA Indoor All-Americans. The success has carried over into the outdoor seasons as well, where White has helped his student-athletes to 10 school records, 39 NAIA Outdoor National Qualifiers, 51 All-Crossroads League selections, 14 Crossroads League Individual Championships, five NAIA All-Americans and 30 NAIA Scholar-Athletes. White coached high school cross country and track for 14 years prior to taking over the TU program. During his time as a high school coach, White guided his teams to four conference championships, six district titles, and had 22 All-State athletes earn a total of 47 All-State honors. An accomplished runner in his own right, White ran four seasons of cross country and track at Taylor, earning five varsity letters with the Purple and Gold. After graduating from TU, White went on to earn a masters degree in language, literature and reading in 1996 from Ohio State University and a Ph. D. in language, literacy and culture in 2005 from OSU. White returned to Taylors Upland campus as a professor of education in the fall of 2006 and was the recipient of the Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award, as well as the Excellent Educator Award in 2008. White is actively involved in his Team Victory ministry, having taken trips to the Dominican Republic in 2009 and 2010 during which his teams delivered shoes, shirts, and Bibles to impoverished youth while sharing the Gospel through running. White has also led Team Victory trips to Guatemala (2011), Nicaragua (2013) and Belize (2016). White lives in Upland with his wife, Julie ('89), and children, Haley, Keanan, and Connor and also continues to serve as a professor within TUs Education Department. The 2016-2017 year is Quinn Whites seventh season at the helm of the womens cross country program, as well as his seventh on staff with the womens track and field team. White, who was named the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Crossroads League Coach of the Year, ranks second in Taylor history with an all-time record of 454-85 at the helm of the womens cross country program and is TUs all-time winning percentage leader with a career clip of .842 entering the 2016 campaign. During Whites tenure, the Trojans have posted the 10-fastest team times and logged seven of the top-15 individual times in school history. In six seasons at the helm of the Taylor womens cross country program, White has helped the Trojans to three Crossroads League Championships and a trio of top-11 finishes at the NAIA National Championships. The program has also racked up 30 NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors, 25 All-Crossroads League awards and one NAIA All-America honor over that time. The 2015 campaign saw the Trojans post a 91-3 team clip, while winning four-of-six regular season races and storming to the programs third-straight Crossroads League Championship. Taylor rattled off five of the eight-fastest times in program history, climbed to as high as No. 4 in the nation to match its highest NAIA Top-25 ranking and placed three individuals inside the top-100 finishers at the NAIA National Championships for the third-straight year, while ending 11th as a team. The squad was equally as impressive off the course, leading the Crossroads League and posting the 15th-highest grade-point average of any team in any sport with a collective mark of 3.77. White guided Taylor to a regular season clip of 97-4 in 2014, en route to a 10th-place finish at NAIA Nationals and a second-straight Crossroads League Championship. The Trojans claimed meet victories at the Ray Bullock Invitational, Indiana Intercollegiates and Crossroads Championships, while matching the programs highest national ranking with a No. 4 mark. TU also set a program record with four individual finishers inside the top-100 at NAIA Nationals. The 2014 season followed an equally dominant breakout year in 2013 for the Trojans, as White guided TU to a regular season mark of 96-4, a Crossroads League Championship and a 10th-place showing at NAIA Nationals. Taylor set a new school-record time of 92:49 during TUs championship run at the Great Lakes Invite, climbed to a program-best NAIA No. 4 ranking and became the first Taylor team to place two runners inside the top-50 and three inside the top-100 at NAIA Nationals. In addition to his role as head coach of the womens cross country team, White has served as an assistant coach with the womens track and field program since 2011 and filled the role of interim head coach for the Trojans in 2014. White was honored as the USTFCCCA Womens Track and Field Assistant Coach of the Year in 2016. During his time specializing with the distance and javelin events over the last six seasons, Whites student-athletes have piled up 15 indoor school records, 51 NAIA Indoor National Qualifiers and four NAIA Indoor All-Americans. The success has carried over into the outdoor seasons as well, where White has helped his student-athletes to 10 school records, 39 NAIA Outdoor National Qualifiers, 51 All-Crossroads League selections, 14 Crossroads League Individual Championships, five NAIA All-Americans and 30 NAIA Scholar-Athletes. White coached high school cross country and track for 14 years prior to taking over the TU program. During his time as a high school coach, White guided his teams to four conference championships, six district titles, and had 22 All-State athletes earn a total of 47 All-State honors. An accomplished runner in his own right, White ran four seasons of cross country and track at Taylor, earning five varsity letters with the Purple and Gold. After graduating from TU, White went on to earn a masters degree in language, literature and reading in 1996 from Ohio State University and a Ph. D. in language, literacy and culture in 2005 from OSU. White returned to Taylors Upland campus as a professor of education in the fall of 2006 and was the recipient of the Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award, as well as the Excellent Educator Award in 2008. White is actively involved in his Team Victory ministry, having taken trips to the Dominican Republic in 2009 and 2010 during which his teams delivered shoes, shirts, and Bibles to impoverished youth while sharing the Gospel through running. White has also led Team Victory trips to Guatemala (2011), Nicaragua (2013) and Belize (2016). White lives in Upland with his wife, Julie ('89), and children, Haley, Keanan, and Connor and also continues to serve as a professor within TUs Education Department.