Staff Directory
Bill White
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- Phone:
- 731-881-3691
Bill White is in his sixth season on the University of Tennessee at Martin baseball staff and fourth as associate head coach in 2027, working primarily with the Skyhawk pitchers. He was promoted to associate head coach on July 31, 2023.
Last season, UT Martin extended its school-record postseason streak to four with a first-round appearance in the OVC Baseball Championships. The Skyhawk arms produced four complete games and nine saves as a team (fifth most saves in a season in school’s NCAA DI history). Jacob Sitton was named conference pitcher of the week twice to become the fourth UT Martin pitcher to win two OVC Pitcher of the Week awards in the same season. On the conference leaderboards, Sitton ranked third in batters struck out looking, sixth in opposing batting average, sixth in strikeouts and eighth in innings pitched. In one of the Skyhawks’ complete games, righty Cason Sharp needed just 89 pitches to go the distance and secure a 6-5 victory over the eventual OVC Tournament Champions, Little Rock. Maxwell Schumacher ended the year ranked fifth in the conference in batters struck out looking with 18. Relief pitcher Mason Little finished the season with four saves which was tied for eighth-most in a single season in school history. Two Skyhawks collected postseason accolades with TJ Grines (OVC Player of the Year, All-OVC first team) and TJ Dunsford (All-OVC second team) earning recognition for tremendous seasons. Grines became UT Martin’s first ever conference player of the year in school history with a historic campaign. The Alexandria, La. native was just the third player since 2002 to join the 50 RBI/50 stolen base club and led the country in stolen bases with 66 (most in NCAA DI baseball since 2007). He became the first Skyhawk to have 20+ doubles and 10+ home runs since 2011 MLB draft pick Trey Karlen accomplished that feat in 2010. Dunsford was named the ninth outfielder in UT Martin history to the All-OVC second team. He notched 62 RBI’s which was just two shy of tying the program’s single season record. The Grand Bay, Ala. native owned a .985 OPS, 11 home runs (team high), 22 multi-hit games (second on the team) and 17 multi-RBI contests (tied for the team lead).
In 2025, the Skyhawks punched their ticket to the Ohio Valley Conference tournament for a third straight year which extended the school’s postseason streak. UT Martin ranked third in the OVC in shutouts (three) while Jeb Bartle (led conference in ERA in OVC play, 1.73) and Jacob Sitton (seventh in OVC play in ERA, 3.86) threw tremendous innings for the Skyhawks.
In 2024, UT Martin made the Ohio Valley Conference tournament for the second straight season which marked the first time the Skyhawks had appeared in the postseason in consecutive campaigns. White helped produce four All-OVC honorees with three student-athletes making the second team (third basemen Mac Danford, outfielder Will Smith and relief pitcher Tucker Reed) while Tristan Walton (first team all-conference) became the first UT Martin pitcher to lead the OVC in ERA and make the OVC’s All-Tournament team.
In 2023, UT Martin amassed a school-record 14 Ohio Valley Conference wins - tying for the second-highest tally in league play and earning the Skyhawks the No. 3 seed in the OVC Championship tournament. Caleb Hobson became the school's highest Major League Baseball Draft pick (13th round to the Colorado Rockies) while White's pitching staff recorded 12 saves (second-most in school history), punched out 381 batters (fourth in the school's NCAA Division I history) and conceded the fewest home runs (24) of any OVC team in league play.
Amongst UT Martin's 19 school records that were shattered in 2023 was most All-OVC honorees (five) - including left-handed pitcher Zach Wager. The Columbus, Ind. native became the first Skyhawk hurler to pile up Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American honors and the first UT Martin representative to be named OVC Freshman of the Year. He tallied OVC second team accolades after posting a 2.44 ERA - the best of any Skyhawk with at least 40 innings pitched in the school's NCAA Division I Era (since 1993).
In 2022, UT Martin defeated Alabama for the second straight year, winning by a score of 7-6 on March 1. Rhett Fetner - one of White's pupils going back to their Chattahoochee Valley days - was crowned as OVC Pitcher of the Week on March 14, becoming just the 12th Skyhawk to earn that honor. Fetner was well on his way to a dominant season as his 3.27 ERA was the lowest by any UT Martin hurler with at least seven games started in the last two decades before the right-hander suffered a season-ending injury on April 1.
White came to the Skyhawks from Chattahoochee Valley Community College in Phenix City, Ala. He spent four seasons as an assistant under head coaches Adam Thomas and Hunter Vick, helping the Pirates to a 138-56 overall record with an 81-23 mark (.779 winning percentage) in the Alabama Community College Conference. During White’s tenure, CVCC won a pair of ACCC regular season championships (2018, 2021), two ACCC tournament championships (2018, 2019) and advanced to the NJCAA World Series twice – claiming a pair of victories at the 2019 event. Overall, White coached two All-Americans and 13 All-ACCC selections at CVCC.
As the Pirates' pitching coach, White presided over a staff that combined for a 3.35 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, a .228 opponent batting average, a 2.6:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio a 9.61 strikeouts-per-nine-innings average and 33 shutouts in his four years at CVCC. The 2021 CVCC hurlers ranked in the top-two nationally in ERA (2.63, first) and shutouts (11, second) while the 2018 Pirate squad ranked in the top-four in the country in shutouts (15, second) and ERA (2.65, fourth). He mentored 2021 ACCC Pitcher of the Year Jordan Armstrong (11-0, 1.65 ERA in 71 innings) and 2018 All-American Cole Ganopulos (10-0, 1.62 ERA in 89 innings).
Before his stint at CVCC, White spent the 2013 campaign working under head coach Wynn Fletcher at Central Alabama Community College in Alexander City, Ala. The Trojans captured the program’s first-ever national championship that season, finishing 43-14 after their victory over Palm Beach State in the NJCAA title game.
White spent nine seasons playing professionally, culminating with 17 MLB relief appearances with the Texas Rangers in 2007-08. He went 2-0 with three holds out of the Ranger bullpen as a rookie in 2007. He was selected in the MLB Draft on two separate occasions, being picked in the third round (99th overall) by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2000 and in the 33rd round (992nd overall) by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1997.
As a collegiate pitcher, White starred at Jacksonville State University (2000) and Meridian Community College (1998-99). The southpaw still holds the JSU Division I school record for most strikeouts in a game (16 against Samford on March 17, 2000) and in a season (136) – leading all of Division I baseball with a 16.0 strikeouts-per-nine-innings ratio. He fired the program’s first no-hitter of its Division I Era when he accomplished that feat against Alabama A&M on March 12, 2000. As a freshman, he helped MCC to a third-place finish at the 1998 NJCAA World Series.
Hailing from Alexander City, Ala., White graduated from Jacksonville State in 2014 with a degree in liberal studies. He is married to the former Rachael Alexander from Auburn, Ala. and the couple has one son, Alex.
Last season, UT Martin extended its school-record postseason streak to four with a first-round appearance in the OVC Baseball Championships. The Skyhawk arms produced four complete games and nine saves as a team (fifth most saves in a season in school’s NCAA DI history). Jacob Sitton was named conference pitcher of the week twice to become the fourth UT Martin pitcher to win two OVC Pitcher of the Week awards in the same season. On the conference leaderboards, Sitton ranked third in batters struck out looking, sixth in opposing batting average, sixth in strikeouts and eighth in innings pitched. In one of the Skyhawks’ complete games, righty Cason Sharp needed just 89 pitches to go the distance and secure a 6-5 victory over the eventual OVC Tournament Champions, Little Rock. Maxwell Schumacher ended the year ranked fifth in the conference in batters struck out looking with 18. Relief pitcher Mason Little finished the season with four saves which was tied for eighth-most in a single season in school history. Two Skyhawks collected postseason accolades with TJ Grines (OVC Player of the Year, All-OVC first team) and TJ Dunsford (All-OVC second team) earning recognition for tremendous seasons. Grines became UT Martin’s first ever conference player of the year in school history with a historic campaign. The Alexandria, La. native was just the third player since 2002 to join the 50 RBI/50 stolen base club and led the country in stolen bases with 66 (most in NCAA DI baseball since 2007). He became the first Skyhawk to have 20+ doubles and 10+ home runs since 2011 MLB draft pick Trey Karlen accomplished that feat in 2010. Dunsford was named the ninth outfielder in UT Martin history to the All-OVC second team. He notched 62 RBI’s which was just two shy of tying the program’s single season record. The Grand Bay, Ala. native owned a .985 OPS, 11 home runs (team high), 22 multi-hit games (second on the team) and 17 multi-RBI contests (tied for the team lead).
In 2025, the Skyhawks punched their ticket to the Ohio Valley Conference tournament for a third straight year which extended the school’s postseason streak. UT Martin ranked third in the OVC in shutouts (three) while Jeb Bartle (led conference in ERA in OVC play, 1.73) and Jacob Sitton (seventh in OVC play in ERA, 3.86) threw tremendous innings for the Skyhawks.
In 2024, UT Martin made the Ohio Valley Conference tournament for the second straight season which marked the first time the Skyhawks had appeared in the postseason in consecutive campaigns. White helped produce four All-OVC honorees with three student-athletes making the second team (third basemen Mac Danford, outfielder Will Smith and relief pitcher Tucker Reed) while Tristan Walton (first team all-conference) became the first UT Martin pitcher to lead the OVC in ERA and make the OVC’s All-Tournament team.
In 2023, UT Martin amassed a school-record 14 Ohio Valley Conference wins - tying for the second-highest tally in league play and earning the Skyhawks the No. 3 seed in the OVC Championship tournament. Caleb Hobson became the school's highest Major League Baseball Draft pick (13th round to the Colorado Rockies) while White's pitching staff recorded 12 saves (second-most in school history), punched out 381 batters (fourth in the school's NCAA Division I history) and conceded the fewest home runs (24) of any OVC team in league play.
Amongst UT Martin's 19 school records that were shattered in 2023 was most All-OVC honorees (five) - including left-handed pitcher Zach Wager. The Columbus, Ind. native became the first Skyhawk hurler to pile up Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American honors and the first UT Martin representative to be named OVC Freshman of the Year. He tallied OVC second team accolades after posting a 2.44 ERA - the best of any Skyhawk with at least 40 innings pitched in the school's NCAA Division I Era (since 1993).
In 2022, UT Martin defeated Alabama for the second straight year, winning by a score of 7-6 on March 1. Rhett Fetner - one of White's pupils going back to their Chattahoochee Valley days - was crowned as OVC Pitcher of the Week on March 14, becoming just the 12th Skyhawk to earn that honor. Fetner was well on his way to a dominant season as his 3.27 ERA was the lowest by any UT Martin hurler with at least seven games started in the last two decades before the right-hander suffered a season-ending injury on April 1.
White came to the Skyhawks from Chattahoochee Valley Community College in Phenix City, Ala. He spent four seasons as an assistant under head coaches Adam Thomas and Hunter Vick, helping the Pirates to a 138-56 overall record with an 81-23 mark (.779 winning percentage) in the Alabama Community College Conference. During White’s tenure, CVCC won a pair of ACCC regular season championships (2018, 2021), two ACCC tournament championships (2018, 2019) and advanced to the NJCAA World Series twice – claiming a pair of victories at the 2019 event. Overall, White coached two All-Americans and 13 All-ACCC selections at CVCC.
As the Pirates' pitching coach, White presided over a staff that combined for a 3.35 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, a .228 opponent batting average, a 2.6:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio a 9.61 strikeouts-per-nine-innings average and 33 shutouts in his four years at CVCC. The 2021 CVCC hurlers ranked in the top-two nationally in ERA (2.63, first) and shutouts (11, second) while the 2018 Pirate squad ranked in the top-four in the country in shutouts (15, second) and ERA (2.65, fourth). He mentored 2021 ACCC Pitcher of the Year Jordan Armstrong (11-0, 1.65 ERA in 71 innings) and 2018 All-American Cole Ganopulos (10-0, 1.62 ERA in 89 innings).
Before his stint at CVCC, White spent the 2013 campaign working under head coach Wynn Fletcher at Central Alabama Community College in Alexander City, Ala. The Trojans captured the program’s first-ever national championship that season, finishing 43-14 after their victory over Palm Beach State in the NJCAA title game.
White spent nine seasons playing professionally, culminating with 17 MLB relief appearances with the Texas Rangers in 2007-08. He went 2-0 with three holds out of the Ranger bullpen as a rookie in 2007. He was selected in the MLB Draft on two separate occasions, being picked in the third round (99th overall) by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2000 and in the 33rd round (992nd overall) by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1997.
As a collegiate pitcher, White starred at Jacksonville State University (2000) and Meridian Community College (1998-99). The southpaw still holds the JSU Division I school record for most strikeouts in a game (16 against Samford on March 17, 2000) and in a season (136) – leading all of Division I baseball with a 16.0 strikeouts-per-nine-innings ratio. He fired the program’s first no-hitter of its Division I Era when he accomplished that feat against Alabama A&M on March 12, 2000. As a freshman, he helped MCC to a third-place finish at the 1998 NJCAA World Series.
Hailing from Alexander City, Ala., White graduated from Jacksonville State in 2014 with a degree in liberal studies. He is married to the former Rachael Alexander from Auburn, Ala. and the couple has one son, Alex.
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