Coach Lamberth

Mark Lamberth

Offensive/ Defensive Line and Kickers

Mark Lamberth returned to White House in 1992 after a successful football career at Western Kentucky University, and coaches the offensive and defensive lines and kickers for the Blue Devils.

Teaching Business and Finance at White House High School, Mark is also the head coach of the boys’ soccer team since spring, 1994, and his teams have won multiple region championships and twice appeared in the state semifinals.

Coach Lamberth joins James Honeycutt and Ryan Hamilton as former Blue Devil players on the full-time staff at White House for the football team. Lamberth played on four consecutive District 10-AA title teams from 1984-87, and was named All-District, All-County and Most Valuable Lineman his senior year. He made 87 tackles his senior year at White House and 156 for his career. He played for three head coaches – Robert Lassiter, Bill Locke and current head coach and staff-mate Jeff Porter.

Mark red-shirted one season at Western Kentucky before playing guard and center for the final four. He lettered all four years at WKU, started two and a half, and was named the team’s offensive captain his last year.

He graduated Western Kentucky with a Bachelor of Science in science, physical education and history, and a Master of Arts in Education. He lives in White House with wife, Jackie, of 18 years, and two boys, Jacob (16) and Chance (12). Jacob is a junior and plays both football and soccer on the same teams his dad coaches during the season.

“It’s great to coach your son. But when we’re on the field, I treat him as I would any other player,” Mark Lamberth said of his son, Jacob. “But when we get in the car, I’m dad. I don’t coach at home. And we get to do that a lot because he plays soccer, too.”

Q: What is the best part about coaching at White House and teaching at this school and in this community?

A: “Number one, it’s my home town, but you can’t rank them. It’s the administration I work with every day, it’s the coaching staff and the teaching staff I get to work with. It’s not academics versus athletics, we have a very supportive teaching staff.”

Q: When you are not specifically coaching your players on Friday night, what types of things catch your attention during the game?

A: “When we are on defense, I’m trying to see both their offense and our defense and how they are blocking, and when they hit a seam, I can let Coach Honeycutt know how the seam came open and how they broke it and help make an adjustment.”

Q: The staff at White House has been together as a whole for a long time. What are some of the things you notice that the general fan does not get to see about this staff and this program?

A: “There is a great camaraderie. It’s a brotherhood. We get on each other’s nerves, things get lively in meetings, but when we hit the field we’re altogether and we spend a lot of time together outside the football field. Our spouses are involved, our families, and this is not a job. I can’t imagine not being a part of it.”

Q: What is the biggest thing you notice about incoming freshmen when they are first exposed to the program?

A: “They are in awe, not necessarily in facilities because they have been around football and games, but everything in life is a maturation process and this is just their next step. It’s our job to get them ready, teach them to be on time, respectful and discipline. Our summer program is pretty tough but if they stay, they have an opportunity to be pretty special.”

Q: What is the biggest change in kids from the time they arrive in the program until they graduate?

A: “Every one has its own individual case. You may have a kid who never gets on the field but gets more out of the program that a kid who plays all four years because they disciplined themselves to grow. If they apply the work ethic to this program, they are going to be successful. In the big picture, we’re just a brief moment in their life and we hope to make a good impact.”

Q: There is a hallway in the fieldhouse with pictures of past players, teams and their accomplishments. Do you ever stop and take a glimpse of the past?

A: “I think the freshmen and new players look at it more than the other kids. When they come in the program for the first time, I think they spend more time reflecting on it than those who have been here for a long time.”

Coaching profiles by Kris Freeman are the property of White House High School football. For more on the coaching staff, visit www.whitehousefootball.com .