Jake White quits Sharks
Jake White has stepped down as Director of rugby at the Sharks.
AFTER a season with the Cell C Sharks, Director of rugby, Jake White, will step down from his role.
This was announced today in a statement released on The Sharks website.
In his first season at the helm of The Sharks, White achieved immediate results, winning the local conference and eventually ending third in 2014’s Super Rugby tournament.
Jake was also tasked to up skill the young coaches as well as tidy up all rugby structures across the board from our Academy all the way to our senior team. Initially it was thought this would take some time. However being allowed to concentrate on these tasks during the Absa Currie Cup has fast tracked the process and we can happily say our Super Rugby squad is in place and our pre-season plan ready to go.
The mentoring role Jake has played to our coaches has been invaluable and the time is right for Jake to free himself up for any international coaching and consulting opportunities. The 2015 RWC is just months away. Jake will also have the opportunity to move back to his home city of Cape Town, which will bring him closer to his family after a number of years away. With this in mind Jake will be free to come back and continue the monitoring of his systems and where appropriate consult to The Sharks.
White said that although he was leaving Durban sooner than anticipated, he was satisfied that his short-term goals had been achieved, chiefly finishing in the top four of Super Rugby, putting coaching structures in place and aiding coaches development.
