Joel White joined the Mines staff as an assistant coach in 2019. White brings a long list of experience in swimming and teaching to the program, including assistant swim coach positions at Utah, Notre Dame, and Denver.
White began his collegiate coaching career at Utah, where he coaches three NCAA qualifiers from 2003 to 2005. He was an assistant coach at Notre Dame from 2005 to 2009 where he coaches three all-Americans and qualified 11 swimmers for Olympic Trials; White also served as the interim head women's coach in the summer of 2008. From 2009 to 2012 White coached at the University of Denver, guiding the program's first female all-American and helping the Pioneers to back-to-back Sun Belt Conference championships.Â
White is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a degree in mechanical engineering, and holds a master's from the University of Utah in Psychosocial Aspects of Sport.Â
