By Tim Peterson
(Santa Ana) – Former Buena Park head coach Anthony White has been named the head football coach at Santa Ana College he confirmed Monday.
White played his high school football at Rosemead where he won the High School Heisman in 1998 before going on to play at the college level at Utah. White spent one year as the head coach at Temple City in 2009 where he went 5-4-1 before taking over as head coach at Buena Park in 2010.
White took over a Buena Park team that was 2-8 the year before and immediately took the Coyotes to a 6-5 record overall and the playoffs in 2010. White spent seven years at Buena Park and the Coyotes had a winning record every year during his tenure.
Buena Park missed the playoffs just once during that span and reached the semi-finals in 2014 and ’15. In 2016, in White’s last year at the helm on October 21, the Coyotes had a huge win over La Habra which had been a nemesis over the years.
White coached several Division 1 athletes during his years at Buena Park including NFL players Jaylinn Hawkins (Atlanta), Josh Tupou (Cincinnati) and Nik Needham (Miami). White compiled an overall record of 59-22 at Buena Park.
After stepping down in 2016 White has been able to spend more time with family while still teaching at Buena Park. He has shown interest however in returning to the game and turned down the head coaching job at Warren High School in 2019.
“One of my goals was to become a high school head coach in my 20s and a college head coach in my 30s. I have always admired Santa Ana College Football from afar, and sent multiple players there for the close knit family atmosphere,” White said. “When I was approached as a possibility I did it from a standpoint of a husband, father and teacher and wanted to make sure I was ready.”
Santa Ana didn’t play in 2020 due to the pandemic but in 2019 the Dons went 5-5 under Co-Head Coaches Geoff Jones and Adam Nyssen who were there for four seasons. Now White will realize another one of his goals.
“I’ve turned down multiple jobs in the past because there was always something that just didn’t feel perfect. When I met the staff and administration, I felt none of that,” White said. “It was perfect. Perfect for me, the student athletes, my staff, my beautiful wife San, my son Anthony II and my princess Olivia-Grace.”
Long time area assistant/ former San Gabriel head coach Jude Oliva will join White’s staff as the offensive coordinator. Oliva was on White’s staff at Buena Park as well. Also Ollie Lynch, former co-coach at La Mirada will be the offensive line coach.
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That’s how bad he wanted out of Los Altos. The administration is a joke and to top it off the parents are worse. Most of the players that play at LA don’t live in hacienda heights. They live in La Puente and the surrounding areas. There are 4 high schools in that district and the kids can choose to which high school to attend. All the football players go to LA, that’s like having 4 high schools playing against one as far as talent. Big advantage to Los Altos, how can you mess that up?
Can he complete with Tom craft over at riverside
Welp Anonymous,
Ziola is an idiot. He gave up 10 years teaching service & tenure at LA to go coach football at Covina. By your accounts, an idiot. Hope he is happy making less and praying he gets rehired every year until tenure kicks in
@FBFAN
Show me a teacher that gives up Tenure to Coach football, and I’ll show you he’s an idiot.
Congratulations to these men and all the players they have helped throughout the years.
Funny how they both seem to be the two most popular coaches who keep moving on to bigger and better things, while the rest of the SGV crabs try to pull people down as they argue over SVista vs Baldwin park.
Never understood the haters for these two guys. Anthony was at TC for 1 year and got a better opportunity. No shame in that, especially when you know what the stipend is for a walk on coach. Jude gave his heart and soul to every boy he’s coached,. He would hold clinics for boys that wanted to improve their skills at no charge. The haters always said he did it only so he could recruit. I called BS then and still believe to this day Jude is a good man and a good coach. So you haters take a break and if you’re going to apply a set of standards to rate a coach apply it to all coaches.
@wolf ticket the one thing they do best is recruit which is have the equation at the juco level
Keeping their teaching jobs at Buena Park and coaching elsewhere. They are Eating up 2 teaching positions that could be taken by actual Buena Park coaches and holding their football program hostage.
Well see if their whole our family vs your teams spill works at the Juco level. These dudes won 1 league title together, give it a couple years before SAC is looking for another coach these dudes don’t stay too long at any place.
Congratulations to both Rosemead boys.
Are you sure they play football there? Maybe he got hired for futbol.
Last chance u the comeback
Time to go do what Jude and Anthony do best and recruit