White out after a year

By Neil H. Devlin, Mullen Sports Information Director
Moving back to Pa.; Stanley Richardson now in command.
Mullen alumnus Vincent White announced he is returning to the Philadelphia area effective at the end of the month and has resigned as head coach of football after a year.
However, White will continue elements of his work supporting new President Raul Cardenas and on behalf of Mullen High School through the course of the 2019-20 school year while on the East Coast that has a high number of former Mustangs.
Plus, and most importantly, White, while remaining a special assistant to the President, will be rejoining his family in Pottstown, Pa., a suburb northwest of Philadelphia.
“I’ve been here for a year and Mullen’s a great place, like it was when I was here (as a student-athlete), and I enjoyed coming back,” White said. “It’s a special place. We’ll miss it dearly.”
White’s oldest child, Isaac, a Mustangs junior, will return to Malvern Prep. A high-end competitor in both football and basketball, he recently compiled 13 offers from college-football programs, including several from the Ivy League. White and wife Jen also have a daughter who will be a sophomore next school year and attends Owen J. Roberts High School. They also have a younger daughter headed to middle school.
The distance that split the family was a huge factor, White said, but he also can work on bringing back a high number of alumni on the East Coast into the Mustangs fold.
“I’ll be trying to build relationships and have the same duties I have now,” White said. “We have a lot of alumni in that area, from Maryland to (Washington) D.C. to Connecticut to New Jersey to North Carolina to Virginia … we’re going to reach back out to those people.”
Said Cardenas, who’s in his first month heading Mullen: “We’re very sad to hear that coach White won’t be heading our football team, but I’m still very excited that he is going to be helping us engage our alumni from that region and increasing our friends.”
A 1979 graduate of Mullen, White was a three-sport star for the Mustangs and led them to the 1978 3A football championship, winning in the snow at Montrose. He went on to Stanford, where he was an all-Pac-10 running back behind future Broncos great and NFL Hall-of-Famer John Elway. He also caught two touchdown passes from Elway in the infamous Band Game, when Cal-Berkeley scored the winning touchdown on a kickoff return after several laterals and the returner ran through the band that had inadvertently paraded into the field.   
The Mustangs were 4-7 in White’s lone season, competing in the 5A Metro West League and losing in the first round of the playoffs to Legacy.
Stanley Richardson, an assistant on White’s staff, has been named the Mustangs’ new head coach.
White said he’s looking forward to his new duties in his previous home’s settings and being reunited with his family.
“I appreciate all of the people here and the opportunity I was given,” he said.
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