Grant White was named Head Squash Coach at Hampden-Sydney College on November 24, 2025. He previously served as an assistant coach at the University of Virginia since 2013.
White has been involved with all aspects of the men’s and women’s squash at UVA, including training, organizing and managing the two programs. His primary responsibilities have also included recruiting student athletes, developing and executing fundraising initiatives, producing and managing internal and external media, grant proposals, in-season and off-season training plans, planning annual budgets, along with day-to-day administrative functions, including team correspondence, facility and equipment management, and accounting. He has US Squash Level 2 Coaching Certification, and the Cavaliers have enjoyed varsity status since 2016-17.
White helped the UVA men to an overall record of 11-6 during 2024-25, finishing as runners-up at the Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference (MASC) Championships, and advancing to the consolation bracket of the Potter Cup at the 2025 CSA National Collegiate Squash Team Championships. The Cavaliers earned a final national ranking of No. 7 and had four All-MASC selections, including the MASC Player of the Year Karim Elbarbary and Rookie of the Year Juan Jose Torres Lara, while Elbarbary (First Team) and JP Tew (Second Team) each earned CSA All-America honors. The UVA women’s program finished 12-6 overall, runners-up at the MASC Championships, as well, while finishing fifth at the 2025 CSA National Collegiate Squash Team Championships. The Cavaliers earned a final national ranking of No. 5 and had four All-MASC selections, while Meagan Best (First Team) and Lina Tammam (Second Team) each earned CSA All-America honors.
UVA is a founding member of the MASC (2017) and Cavaliers have won three men’s championships and one women’s title, while having four men’s MASC Players of the Year and three women’s MASC Players of the Year. Overall, the two programs have had 16 All-America selections with the men’s program moving from unranked to a top ranking of No. 5 in 2019, and the women’s program moving from unranked to a top ranking of No. 4 in 2022.
White has led fundraising efforts that are emerging from the most successful cycle in program history, as UVA Men’s and Women’s Squash are the only teams that have both operating and scholarship funds fully endowed. Academically, the program has graduated over 40 CSA Scholar Athlete Award recipients and one Rhodes Scholar, and consistently posts GPA numbers well above the student body average with 2024-25 Team GPAs of 3.5 (men) and 3.67 (women). This year’s ACC Athletic Honor Roll included 14 women and 13 men named to Honor Roll.
White has also served as the Assistant Director and Lead Coach for summer residential camps at the McArthur Squash Center at the Boar’s Head Resort in Charlottesville since 2015. He had previously served as head coach of the Club Squash program at UVA from 2011-13. White has additional experience as an Assistant Squash Teaching Professional at the Boar’s Head Sports Club (2013-17), the Squash Coach at Saint Anne’s-Belfield School (2011-16), as Director of Squash and Head Squash Professional at the Atlantic Coast Athletic Club (2011-16) and as an Assistant Squash and Lacrosse Coach at Woodberry Forest School (2006-08).
White graduated from Bowdoin (ME) College in 2004 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and art history. He was a four-year member of both the squash and lacrosse teams at Bowdoin. White later earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing (poetry track) at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011.
Grant and his wife, Mara, have a son, Virgil, and a daughter, Augusta.
What They Are Saying About New Hampden-Sydney Squash Head Coach Grant White
"Grant has been with me from day one of my arrival to UVA in April 2013 and has been an integral part of all our success. I am sad to see him go, and will miss he enthusiasm and always positive energy, but he is very ready to enter a new phase in his coaching career as a head coach and I am very excited to see where he will lead the Hampden-Sydney team over these next few years. I wish him all the best of luck and look forward to a UVA vs. H-SC squash match hopefully not too far in the future!" – Virginia Men's & Women's Squash Head Coach Mark Allen
