Marshall University Athletics
Football
- Title:
- Special Teams Coordinator
- Email:
- white765@marshall.edu
- Phone:
- ----
Jackson White is going into his second season as the Special Teams Coordinator for Marshall after seeing a highly-successful first season in 2025 that saw the Thundering Herd boast one of the nation’s top special teams units.
In his first season with the Herd, White oversaw the development of freshman kicker Lorcan Quinn, transforming the Gaelic football star into an All-American for the Herd as a placekicker while shattering Marshall program records.
Quinn earned First Team All-SBC honors as a placekicker after finishing with a program single-season record 21 field goals for the Thundering Herd. Quinn’s four field goals of 50-plus yards also established a Marshall career record.
The Donaghmore, Northern Ireland native finished the season 21 of 26 on field goal attempts, which tied him for 9th in the nation in made field goals. He also was No. 3 in FBS in kickoff average at 64.8 with 61 touchbacks out of 71 kickoff attempts.
Punter Nathan Totten also earned Second Team All-SBC honors in his first year collegiately as a starting punter. Under White’s development, the Ashland, Ky., native set the Marshall single-season punting average record at 45.6 yards per punt.
Totten’s long punt on the year was 63 yards and he had three games in which he averaged more than 50 yards per punt for the game. Totten finished the year with 56 punts for 2,551 yards with 19 of 50-plus yards and 20 punts inside the 20-yard line.
White was hired by Marshall head coach Tony Gibson to serve as Marshall’s Special Teams Coordinator in January 2025.
White returns to Huntington for his fifth year in coaching after spending the last four years at N.C. State as a Special Teams Quality Control Analyst where he worked closely with Marshall head coach Tony Gibson.
While at N.C. State, White helped coach All-American and Lou Groza Award winner Christopher Dunn. White also coached Joe Shimko, who won the 2023 Patrick Mannelly Award, given to the nation's best longsnapper. Shimko snapped for every punt and kick for 61 games with zero bad snaps.
White's coaching journey brings him back to Huntington where he served as a reserve quarterback for four years for the Herd (2016-19) while also serving as a holder and operations specialist for the Marshall special teams unit, along with placekicker Justin Rohrwasser, who won Conference USA Special Teams Player of the Year, and all-conference longsnapper Matthew Beardall.
Prior to N.C. State, White also coached defensive backs at South Carolina under head coach Will Muschamp.
White earned his B.S. from Marshall in Business Administration in 2019.
The Jackson White Timeline
2021-24 N.C. State (Special Teams Quality Control)
2020 South Carolina (Defensive Backs)
