Later, she led the United States national women's basketball team to their victory in the 1957 FIBA World Championship.

Playing at a time when there were no major professional women's basketball leagues in the U.S., White distinguished herself, receiving many accolades as one of the greatest female players in history.

Talented in multiple sports, she also was distinguished as an All-World player by the Amateur Softball Association.

[1] White attended the George Peabody College for Teachers (now part of Vanderbilt University), along with Sue Gunter and Doris Rogers,[2] both of whom went on to play for the United States women's national basketball team.

[7] In 1966, Harley Redin (head coach of the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens, the dominant team of the 1950s) called her the "greatest woman basketball player in history".

[12] White is one of only two players inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame based on AAU accomplishments, the other being Joan Crawford.

[15] White died on April 13, 2016, at a hospital in Gallatin, Tennessee, from complications of pneumonia, at the age of 80.