2019 Athletics Hall of Honor inductees: Bill Spurbeck '87, Tim White '02, Raegan Schultz Wagner '04.
Tim White '02
Men's golf
The 2002 Iowa Conference men's golf MVP, White later earned all-America distinction that year by finishing eighth at the NCAA Division III Championships.
A two-time team co-captain, White received Central's Ryerson MVP Award in 2002 and posted the team's low scoring average in 2001 and 2002. He was a member of three league championship squads at Central and finished second individually in 2001, carding a first-round 67, the school's best-ever conference tourney score. White helped lead the Dutch to a 22nd-place NCAA team finish in 2001 and a tie for ninth place in 2002. He was a two-time Golf Coaches Association of America All-America Scholar.
White received a doctoral degree in philosophy in chemical and bioengineering from the University of Iowa in 2006. He received the school's Karl Kammermeyer Research Award and Vetter Service Award and was named the Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor. In 2006, White joined the research staff at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, where he ultimately served as the lead of the structured optical materials and processes team.
In 2018, White was named the first Gallogly Professor of Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Recognized for his research of polymeric and liquid crystalline materials, he has published more than 150 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Science, and Nature. He received early career awards from the U.S. Air Force, the International Society for Optics and Physics (SPIE) and the Materials Research Society (MRS). White was recently honored with lectureships by Harvard University and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Originally from Princeton, Illinois, White now lives near Boulder, Colorado with his wife Jaymie, a 2002 Central graduate, and children.
