Men's Squash
- Title:
- Sport Administrator
- Email:
- ludwicle@drexel.edu
Laura White is Drexel’s Senior Associate Director of Athletics and Senior Woman Administrator, a title she has held since her promotion in 2015. Entering her 21st year in administration, White oversees NCAA rules compliance and eligibility, student-athlete welfare and performance including athletic training, strength and conditioning, sports nutrition and sports psychology, as well as administrator for many sports teams. As Senior Woman Administrator she is involved in senior level management decisions, gender equity and serves as the athletics deputy Title IX coordinator. Drexel Athletics was named #1 in the nation in Gender Equity by U.S. News and World Report and the Pennsylvania Law Project listed Drexel as one of the top five athletic programs in the state in terms of gender equity. In 2008 Drexel Athletics received a national Top 5 Award by the NCAA for Overall Excellence in Diversity. White served as the primary liaison between U.S. Squash and Drexel University. Drexel has hosted the U.S. Open Squash Championships every year since 2011. She has served on Drexel University’s Faculty Senate, IRB and the CAA Women’s Basketball Committee as the Chair of Women’s Basketball Enhancement. White was named to the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Tennis Committee in 2012 and in 2015-16 served as the chair. During her tenure, the committee was responsible for implementing no-ad scoring and began television contracts for the championships.
Before entering administration, White was the head coach of the men’s and women’s tennis teams at Drexel. She posted 14 winning seasons as the head coach of the women’s tennis program and was instrumental in bringing the men’s team to a more competitive level after taking over that program in 1994. The 1992 North Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year stepped away from coaching with 150 combined victories between the programs.
White graduated from Ursinus College in 1982 with a degree in health and physical education. She was a four-year standout on the tennis team. She also received her MBA from Drexel in 1999.
White and her husband, Tony, live in Gladwyne, Pa. and have two children. Anthony graduated from Drexel in 2015 and Jennifer a 2019 Drexel graduate and varsity student-athlete.
