Mark White Position: Head Coach (12th Season) Alma Mater: Macalester College (1984)

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Mark White enters his 11th season as the head coach of the Dominican University men's basketball program. White has led the Stars to back-to-back appearances in the Northern Athletics Conference (NAC) Men's Basketball Tournament, with the Stars hosting first-round games each of the last two seasons. The program's 17-10 record in 2006-2007 and 14-12 record last season, is one of the most successful back-to-back campaigns in the history of the program.

Prior to the start of the 2007-2008 season, White's Stars were just one of 16 Division III men's basketball programs to improve their record every season over a four-year period from 2003-2007. Dominican went from a four-win season in 2003-2004, to a seven-win season in 2004-2005, to a 13-win season in 2005-2006 before winning 17 contests in the 2006-2007 season. During that 2006-2007 season, White's Stars played in an NCAA Division III record four-straight overtime games in a stretch from February 1 through February 10 and played in six overtime contests on the season.

White returned to Dominican University in 2002 after serving as the university's head men's basketball coach from 1995-2000 as the university transitioned from NAIA to NCAA. Since his return, White has shaped the team into a perennial conference contender, hosting a first-round NAC Tournament game in each of the last two seasons as his Stars have finished in the top four in the conference in back-to-back years for the first time since joining the NCAA in 2000 and have posted a 23-13 record in conference play since 2006.

White has established a tradition of recruiting, coaching and developing post players. In his ten seasons at the helm of the program, White has recruited and coached six post players that have received post-season honors ranging from all-conference honorable mention to all-region. Most recently, Mike Haiduc was a three-time all-conference player earning All-Conference honors in the Lake Michigan Conference in 2006 and back-to-back All-Conference honors from the NAC in 2007 and 2008 and has gone on to play professional basketball in Denmark.

In addition to his coaching experience with Dominican, White spent seven seasons at NCAA Division I Northeastern Illinois as an assistant coach. From 2000-2002 White worked with Sportvision, the premier global provider of enhancements for sports television. While there, White was in charge of basketball content providing TV basketball analysts with the ability to reveal compelling information to the viewers, while incorporating an eye-catching graphic component.

A 1984 graduate of Macalester College, a NCAA Division III institution in Minnesota, White received a bachelor of arts in economics and then received a master's degree in sports administration from the University of Illinois-Chicago. At the start of the 2007-2008 academic year, White was selected by the university's Diversity Committee as the recipient of the 2007 Sr. Clemente Davlin, OP Diversity Leadership Award for his commitment to diversity on Dominican's campus.

In addition to his duties as the head men's basketball coach, White also serves as the Associate Director of Athletics at the university and works with Immersion Media as a basketball consultant helping create an interactive, animated playbook for the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), ESPN.com and NBA.com.