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White with BSC Athletics
Director Kyndall Waters ’05
Schmidt
Football
In November, Tony Joe White became the sixth head football coach in program history and the third
since the program resumed in 2007. White was most recently the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks
coach at Centre College.
Under White’s guidance, the Colonel offense broke program total yard records every season since 2013,
finishing last fall with 5,086 yards to rank 13th nationally for total offense. They are also ranked in the
top 20 in NCAA Division III in six other offensive categories and ended the season in third place in the
Southern Athletic Association.
In 2013, White led the Colonels to five single-game records and two single-season records.
Golf
Richard Schmidt, who has more than 35 years of golfing experience, was chosen to be men’s and
women’s golf head coach. He has been an assistant golf professional at the Country Club of Birmingham
and Wyoming’s Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis, conducting clinics and organizing golf tournaments.
Before coming to BSC, he spent 12 years as a sales agent for American Lumber in Birmingham.
A native of Houston, Schmidt is a member of the U.S. Golf Association and Pine Tree Country Club. He
graduated from Jacksonville State University in 1999 with a degree in criminal justice after competing in
golf for four years with the Gamecocks.
Women’s lacrosse
The college didn’t have to go far to find its next head women’s lacrosse coach. Courtney Williams,
who served as BSC’s assistant women’s lacrosse coach from 2012-16, was named to take over the position
vacated by Emily Wetmore.
Williams is no stranger to Division III lacrosse; she played for four seasons at Virginia Wesleyan College
in Norfolk, Va. She was named conference Rookie of the Year and made the record books as only the
eighth woman in VWC program history to score 100-plus goals in a career. She graduated from VWC in
2012 with a degree in recreation and leisure studies concentrating in therapeutic recreation.
Women’s volleyball
Haven O’Quinn, former head coach of the 7A state champion Mountain Brook High School volleyball
squad, will take over BSC’s women’s volleyball program on June 1.
O’Quinn led the Spartans to three consecutive state championships with an overall record of 223-50.
She was the 2016
AL.comState Coach of the Year, 2015 NFHS State Coach of the Year, and a three-time
recipient of the Over the Mountain Journal Coach of the Year award. Her coaching experience extends
over 10 years. She graduated from Troy University, where she played for four years, and currently is top
five in several individual and career record categories.
Williams
New head coaches announced
Weisberg hits 300th career win
The No. 3 baseball team gave Head Coach Jan Weisberg
his 300th win at BSC with its two-game sweep on March
4, making him the fastest coach in the college’s program
history to hit the mark. The Panthers defeated University
of Wisconsin-Oshkosh 6-3 and then took down Transylvania
6-2 in the nightcap to improve to 11-3 for the year.
Weisberg is in his 11th season coaching at BSC.
O’Quinn