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2018-19 Men's Basketball Roster
White, Coby
Jersey Number 2
Coby White
- Height:
- 6-5
- Weight:
- 185
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Goldsboro, N.C.
- High School:
- Greenfield School
Bio
PREP
Earned all-tournament honors (All-Star Five) at the FIBA Americas U-18 Championship played in June 2018 in Canada • USA’s leading scorer at 15.3 points per game as the USA went 6-0 and won the gold medal • Made 14 threes and shot 41.2 percent from three in the six games • Played for coach Rob Slater at the Greenfield School in Wilson • Averaged 31.0 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists his senior year • Broke the all-time North Carolina high school scoring record with 3,573 points • Led Greenfield to a state playoffs championship game appearance in 2018 •Two-time Gatorade Boys Basketball Player of the Year for North Carolina • Associated Press Player of the Year in North Carolina and the Charlotte Observer’s Mr. Basketball in 2018 • Averaged 31 points as a junior, 30.4 as a senior and nine assists in each season • Shot 45 percent from three and 87 percent from the free throw line as a senior • Scored 1,069 points as a junior to set the single-season state scoring record • Set Greenfield single-game scoring record in 2016 with 52 points vs. Faith Assembly Academy • Three-time all-state • Set the John Wall Invitational scoring record, compiling 119 points in three games (broke former Tar Heel guard Donald Williams’ record) • Played in the 2018 McDonald’s All-American Game and the Jordan Brand Classic (21 points) • First-team MaxPreps All-America and second-team USA Today All-America • Three-time Wilson Daily Times and Coastal Plain Independent Conference Player of the Year • Member of Team CP3 in the Nike EYBL along with fellow Tar Heel freshman Leaky Black • Member of the Federation of Christian Athletes in High School.
North Carolina’s Mr. Basketball (selected by the Charlotte Observer since 1985)
Henrik Rödl – 1985, Chapel Hill
Donald Williams – 1991, Garner
Antawn Jamison – 1995, Providence
Kris Lang – 1998, Huss
Will Graves – 2006, Dudley
Reggie Bullock – 2010, Kinston
Isaiah Hicks – 2013, Webb
Theo Pinson – 2014, High Point Wesleyan
Coby White – 2018, Greenfield School
PERSONAL
Born Alec Jacoby White in Goldsboro on Feb. 16, 2000 • Son of Donald and Bonita White • Has a sister, Tia, and brother, Will, who is an assistant coach at Mars Hill University • Undeclared major.
Earned all-tournament honors (All-Star Five) at the FIBA Americas U-18 Championship played in June 2018 in Canada • USA’s leading scorer at 15.3 points per game as the USA went 6-0 and won the gold medal • Made 14 threes and shot 41.2 percent from three in the six games • Played for coach Rob Slater at the Greenfield School in Wilson • Averaged 31.0 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists his senior year • Broke the all-time North Carolina high school scoring record with 3,573 points • Led Greenfield to a state playoffs championship game appearance in 2018 •Two-time Gatorade Boys Basketball Player of the Year for North Carolina • Associated Press Player of the Year in North Carolina and the Charlotte Observer’s Mr. Basketball in 2018 • Averaged 31 points as a junior, 30.4 as a senior and nine assists in each season • Shot 45 percent from three and 87 percent from the free throw line as a senior • Scored 1,069 points as a junior to set the single-season state scoring record • Set Greenfield single-game scoring record in 2016 with 52 points vs. Faith Assembly Academy • Three-time all-state • Set the John Wall Invitational scoring record, compiling 119 points in three games (broke former Tar Heel guard Donald Williams’ record) • Played in the 2018 McDonald’s All-American Game and the Jordan Brand Classic (21 points) • First-team MaxPreps All-America and second-team USA Today All-America • Three-time Wilson Daily Times and Coastal Plain Independent Conference Player of the Year • Member of Team CP3 in the Nike EYBL along with fellow Tar Heel freshman Leaky Black • Member of the Federation of Christian Athletes in High School.
North Carolina’s Mr. Basketball (selected by the Charlotte Observer since 1985)
Henrik Rödl – 1985, Chapel Hill
Donald Williams – 1991, Garner
Antawn Jamison – 1995, Providence
Kris Lang – 1998, Huss
Will Graves – 2006, Dudley
Reggie Bullock – 2010, Kinston
Isaiah Hicks – 2013, Webb
Theo Pinson – 2014, High Point Wesleyan
Coby White – 2018, Greenfield School
PERSONAL
Born Alec Jacoby White in Goldsboro on Feb. 16, 2000 • Son of Donald and Bonita White • Has a sister, Tia, and brother, Will, who is an assistant coach at Mars Hill University • Undeclared major.
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