High School Notes: South Mecklenburg’s Rocky White gets a rare Shrine Bowl double
Saturday afternoon in Spartanburg, South Mecklenburg football coach Rocky White got to pull of a rare double.
White won a Shrine Bowl championship as a player in 1977. He was a quarterback on that team. Thirty years later, White was an assistant coach on the North Carolina Shrine Bowl team. North Carolina whipped South Carolina 55-24 in Saturday’s game.
After graduating from Olympic High School in 1978, White played college football at North Carolina.
White was head coach at West Mecklenburg from 2003-07. He’s been head coach at South Mecklenburg since the 2012 season.
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This story was originally published December 18, 2017 at 1:21 PM with the headline "High School Notes: South Mecklenburg’s Rocky White gets a rare Shrine Bowl double."