Kevin White (athletic director)

Dr. Kevin White is the Director of Athletics at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. He has held this position since March 13, 2000. He held similar positions at Arizona State University, Tulane University, the University of Maine, and Loras College.

White is a career educator having started as a high school coach and teacher at Gulf High School, in New Port Richey, Florida. Holding a PhD in education, White teaches management courses at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business as the MBA program during spring semesters.

As a coach, White served at Southeast Missouri State University (1981-1982) as the head track and filed coach, and as assistant track and field and cross country coach at Central Michigan University (1976-1980). His coaching career started at Gulf High School as the cross coutry and track coach and assisting with the football and wrestling programs. While at Loras College he originated the National Catholic Basketball Tournament.

White was born in Amityville, New York, on September 25, 1950. Earning a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1972 from St. Jospeh's College in Rensselaer, Indiana, White went on to earn a master's degree in athletics administration from Central Michigan Univeristy in 1976. He completed his PhD in 1983 at Southern Illinois University with an emphasis in higher education administration. He has done postdoctoral work at Harvard University in the Institute for Educational Management.