White Picks Up USTFCCCA Assistant Coach-of-Year Honor

February 29, 2024

UPLAND, Ind. – For the third time in the past six years, Taylor's Quinn White has been named the USTFCCCA NAIA Great Lakes Region Indoor Track and Field Assistant Coach of the Year, this time doing so with the women's team.

White was previously awarded this top honor in 2019 with the women's team and again in 2021 with the men's squad and also claimed the same honor for the women's team during the outdoor seasons in 2016, 2018 and 2019.

Now in his 14th year as an assistant coach with the Taylor track and field programs, White saw his student-athletes rack up 12 national qualification times in seven events during the 2023-2024 indoor season, with 10 of those times resulting in A-standards.

Additionally, White's middle-distance and distance athletes raced to three individual titles and two meet records at the recent Crossroads League Indoor Track and Field Championships, helping the No. 8 Trojans to a second-place finish in the team standings.

The highlight moment of the CL Championships for Taylor came in the 5,000-meters, where Mollie Gamble and Audrey Brinkruff finished first and second, while each besting the existing Taylor program and CL Championship record in the event.

White's middle-distance and distance groups enter the NAIA National Championships ranked top-10 in the NAIA in USTFCCCA #EventSquad rankings in three events, led by a No. 2 rating in the 3,000-meters. TU also rates sixth in the mile and eighth in the 5,000-meters.

The Trojans will look to cap their impressive indoor season with a strong showing at NAIA Nationals on February 29 through March 2.