An Exceptional Coach

After pushback from some powerful boosters, Western Alabama University President Charles Conners calls on Atwater High School Football Coach Kirby Williams, an eight time state champion and three time USA Today National Champion and leader of the premiere program in high school football in the country, to ignite a brand new program at Western. Williams interviews for the job, is hired and must navigate the challenges in pursuing his dream of winning national championships in college football. He faces severe challenges from a corrupt alumnus and his equally if not more corrupt cohort, personal attacks on his character, community tragedies, and, very importantly, winning over his team. But he is relentless in his pursuit of excellence for his football program on the field and in life. This is the story of this exceptional journey of an excpetional leader.

David White attended Episcopal High School in Virginia and graduated from there in 1980 and Vanderbilt University in 1984. He started his sports writing/authoring career at Bama Magazine in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1986. He has worked for Carolina Blue Newspaper, a weekly news magazine in which he wrote 8 to 10 features a week and game stories on North Carolina Football and Basketball. He then worked for the Durham Morning Herald beginning in the late 1980's.
In 1990, he came back to Birmingham, Alabama and worked for the Birmingham News, the Birmingham Post-Herald and the Over the Mountain Journal until 2010, when he started a blog after publishing three books. He spends a lot of time writing on his blog and has published four other books, Leadership Lessons for Life, in 2004, Shorty: A Life in Sports, in 2007, A Man of Character in 2009 and A Stroke of Genius in 2010. His first two pieces were non-fiction and his last two were fiction pieces. White lives with his wife, Beth, in Birmingham. White is 62 years old and loves what he does.