The injuries led to "a loss of movement and feeling in my left leg, knee, ankle and foot due to nerve damage, steel plates/pins and issues with tendons" and '"reduced range of motion and feeling in my right wrist, which also has some steel pins, reduced mobility in my right shoulder, as well as issues with my spine due to the broken vertebrae".
[citation needed] This dream was cut short after a riding fall in 2008 left her in a coma with permanent brain damage, during which White says she lost her ability to do complex mathematical calculations and could no longer pursue her dream of flying full time, though she still flies recreationally.
[citation needed] After her motor vehicle accident, she was encouraged to take up para equestrian by Olympian Megan Jones.
[citation needed] In February 2021, White and her horse Genius 60, a 10-year-old Dutch warmblood gelding, won the CPEDI3* Dressage freestyle competition at Al Shaqab, Doha with a new personal best of 73.733 percent, after taking second in two other events.
[5] At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, White rode Genius to eighth in the Individual championship test grade V, and sixth in the Dressage individual team test grade V. In the team competition she rode with Emma Booth and Sharon Jarvis.