Matt White was tabbed to be the new head football coach at Ellsworth CC in December 2023.  White came to ECC after four years as the defensive coordinator and director of football performance at University of Virginia Wise, an NCAA DII school.  At UVA Wise, he coordinated defenses that broke every individual game record in program history and optimized the talent that earned the respect of opponents in the South Atlantic Conference.  White also developed a comprehensive year-round strength and conditioning plan for the football program.

Prior to his stint at UVA Wise, White was an assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at Kentucky Christian University where he recruited over 200 student-athletes to boost the college's enrollment in his only season there.  He helped elevate one of the worst performing defensive squads into a conference leader in several statistical categories.

Before earning the current job at Ellsworth, White's previous head coaching experience came at Los Angeles Valley College in Valley Glen, CA, where he also served as the team's offensive coordinator.  He fielded one of the most explosive offenses in all of college football, LA Valley averaging 45.8 points per game one season.  At 27 years old, he was the only full-time coach employed at the school.  Los Angeles Valley was also the college where White had been an assistant head coach and special teams coordinator before he was named the head coach.  They went 13-0 one season and notched back-to-back bowl wins while White led a defense and special teams unit that allowed only 240 total yards and 10 points per game.

Teaching is also in White's background.  He worked as an adjunct instructor in the kinesiology department at Los Angeles Valley College and also taught kinesiology at UCLA, where he conducted the men's and women's rec sports strength development.

White's first coaching job was at the University of Montana Tech where he was the defensive line coach and head strength coach for two years.  He was also the stength and conditioning coordinator for Dan Hawkins' IFAF world championship football team for one season of Team USA Football.

The new ECC coach's lengthy resume shows he has been involved with coaching every positional group at one time or another and has worked as an offensive, defensive and special teams coordinator.

White earned a master's degree from Fort Hays State University.  He is familiar with the Iowa community college system having started his football playing career at Iowa Central CC in Fort Dodge.