Jake White was born on 13 December 1963 as Jacob Westerduin and is a professional rugby union coach and former coach of the South African national team – the Springboks – whom he coached to victory in 2007 Rugby World Cup and the 2004 Tri Nations.
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Jake White was coach of the Brumbies in the Super Rugby from 2012, but resigned with two years remaining on his contract in 2013 to return to South Africa.
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Jake White was born in Johannesburg and attended Jeppe High School for Boys where he played in the First XV.
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Jake White began his coaching career as a high school rugby coach at Parktown Boys' High School's First XV before returning to his old school as a teacher and as coach of the school's First XV.
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Jake White coached various under-19 and under-21 sides before assisting Springbok squad preparations by doing video analysis for them.
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Jake White was appointed as head coach of the national team in early 2004 following South Africa's poor performance at the 2003 World Cup and the Kamp Staaldraad scandal.
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Jake White's first move was to install John Smit as captain, which drew a substantial amount of criticism, despite the success they achieved leading the Springboks.
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Jake White then proceeded to coach South Africa to their first Tri-Nations trophy since 1998.
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Jake White rallied his troops in the Springbok's final match of their away tour in the newly expanded Tri-Nations.
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Jake White seemed to find the right balance in the back row and the Boks stubbornly defeated New Zealand in a disciplined and accurate display at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium.
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Jake White however just managed to stave off his critics and end what was an emotionally exhausting season.
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Jake White found depth in Wynand Olivier and Pierre Spies; the former being used extensively in plugging gaps left by injuries in the backline.
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Jake White lamented the many lost opportunities of this campaign but was optimistic about the various changes they made to their defensive patterns and saw it as an important learning cuve ahead of the World Cup the following year.
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O'Neill was incensed by comments by Springboks coach Jake White, who said the injury to stand-in Springboks captain Bobby Skinstad justified his decision to rest leading players such as Victor Matfield, Schalk Burger and Bryan Habana.
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Jake White is basically saying that because Bobby Skinstad has a broken rib, that supports his decision to leave all the players behind.
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Jake White is basically saying that his only objective this year is the World Cup.
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Jake White has made it clear that whatever he has to do in between – so be it.
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Jake White revealed that he worked on the linkage between 9 and 10 and the motion of the ball.
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Jake White provided the assured authority that Jean was never able to provide.
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Jake White held positions in the IRB as a consultant, as well as in the South African Rugby Legends Association's upliftment programmes for underprivileged people.
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Surprisingly, after just two mounts after leading the Brumbies to second in the Super Rugby, Jake White resigned from his post at the Brumbies explaining he wanted to return home to South Africa.
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Jake White announced that Francois Steyn would play at 12, the inside centre position.
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Jake White's next move was to restructure the Sharks' on-field leadership; he replaced Keegan Daniel with Bismarck du Plessis as captain, and appointed Lambie, Odwa Ndungane and Jean Deysel as vice-captains.
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Jake White went on to coach the Sharks to top of the South African conference, finishing third overall in the table.
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Jake White had believed to be the main inputter into this new structure.
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