Women's Basketball
Aluka-White, Joanne
Joanne Aluka-White
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- aluka@email.unc.edu
Joanne Aluka-White joined the North Carolina women's basketball staff in 2019 as an assistant coach, following seven seasons with the Charlotte 49ers. The 2025-26 campaign will be her seventh as a Tar Heel and second as the associate head coach.
Aluka-White was the associate head coach on the Charlotte women's basketball staff for two seasons, receiving the promotion before the 2017-18 campaign after serving previously as an assistant coach for the 49ers. She played a vital role on head coach Cara Consuegra's staff, overseeing the development of the post players.
Aluka-White has participated in several professional development and coaching seminars through the years, most recently the inaugural Next Chair event on the Charlotte campus in May 2019. She also has been selected for the NCAA Minority Coaches Forum for Basketball in Charlottesville, Virginia during the 2017 and 2018 springs. In June 2013, she was chosen to attend the Achieving Coaching Excellence (ACE) program, which is designed for minority coaches. It was funded by the NCAA and the Advocates for Athletic Equity (AAE).
Prior to coming to Charlotte, Aluka-White spent from 2006-07 through 2011-12, as an assistant coach at FIU. During her six years with the Panthers, the program reached the 2011 and 2012 Sun Belt Tournament semifinals and earned an at-large bid to the postseason, competing in the WNIT for the first time since 2005-06. It capped the school's first 20-win campaign in the last 10 years and their second-straight 10-win Sun Belt record.
Aluka-White was a successful collegiate basketball player at Middle Tennessee. The Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year in 1999, she scored more than 1,000 points during her career as a Blue Raider. She was voted team captain and helped MTSU capture an OVC Tournament championship, an NCAA Tournament ticket and two WNIT berths.
The culmination of her playing career came with her selection to Nigeria's national team and a trip to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Nigeria won the first Olympic game in the country's history. She also saw playing time professionally in Europe prior to the Olympics, and while in Portugal, she led her team to the 2004 National Cup final.
Her playing career continued after the Olympics, when she returned the U.S. and played for the NWBL's Dallas Fury, where she was coached by Hall of Fame player Nancy Lieberman.
The Augusta, Ga., native graduated from Middle Tennessee in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in behavioral science. She stayed at MTSU to complete her master's degree in 2003 in health and human performance with a concentration in sport management.
Aluka-White and her husband Fred White are the parents of twins, Daniel and Gabrielle.
Aluka-White was the associate head coach on the Charlotte women's basketball staff for two seasons, receiving the promotion before the 2017-18 campaign after serving previously as an assistant coach for the 49ers. She played a vital role on head coach Cara Consuegra's staff, overseeing the development of the post players.
Aluka-White has participated in several professional development and coaching seminars through the years, most recently the inaugural Next Chair event on the Charlotte campus in May 2019. She also has been selected for the NCAA Minority Coaches Forum for Basketball in Charlottesville, Virginia during the 2017 and 2018 springs. In June 2013, she was chosen to attend the Achieving Coaching Excellence (ACE) program, which is designed for minority coaches. It was funded by the NCAA and the Advocates for Athletic Equity (AAE).
Prior to coming to Charlotte, Aluka-White spent from 2006-07 through 2011-12, as an assistant coach at FIU. During her six years with the Panthers, the program reached the 2011 and 2012 Sun Belt Tournament semifinals and earned an at-large bid to the postseason, competing in the WNIT for the first time since 2005-06. It capped the school's first 20-win campaign in the last 10 years and their second-straight 10-win Sun Belt record.
Aluka-White was a successful collegiate basketball player at Middle Tennessee. The Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year in 1999, she scored more than 1,000 points during her career as a Blue Raider. She was voted team captain and helped MTSU capture an OVC Tournament championship, an NCAA Tournament ticket and two WNIT berths.
The culmination of her playing career came with her selection to Nigeria's national team and a trip to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Nigeria won the first Olympic game in the country's history. She also saw playing time professionally in Europe prior to the Olympics, and while in Portugal, she led her team to the 2004 National Cup final.
Her playing career continued after the Olympics, when she returned the U.S. and played for the NWBL's Dallas Fury, where she was coached by Hall of Fame player Nancy Lieberman.
The Augusta, Ga., native graduated from Middle Tennessee in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in behavioral science. She stayed at MTSU to complete her master's degree in 2003 in health and human performance with a concentration in sport management.
Aluka-White and her husband Fred White are the parents of twins, Daniel and Gabrielle.
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