Paul Pasqualoni completed his first coaching staff at UConn Monday by naming Clayton White running backs coach and special teams coordinator.

Pasqualoni also officially announced that he has retained all of the six holdovers from former coach Randy Edsall’s staff.

White, who played at North Carolina State and spent three seasons in the NFL, comes to UConn from Western Kentucky, where he spent the 2010 season as the defensive backs coach and special teams coordinator.

He has seven seasons of collegiate coaching experience, but all on the defensive side of the ball.

White replaces Terry Richardson, who left to become running backs coach at Miami (Fla.), and Lyndon Johnson, who joined Edsall at Maryland, where he will handle special teams again. A third member of Edsall’s staff, defensive coordinator Todd Orlando, left to accept the same position at Florida International.

White, a native of Dunn, N.C., was a three-year starter at linebacker for N.C. State. He spent two seasons with the New York Giants and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before beginning his coaching career in 2004 at Western Carolina. He spent two seasons at Western Carolina, one at Western Michigan and three at Stanford before moving on to Western Kentucky.

Pasqualoni hired two new coordinators — Don Brown (defense) and George DeLeone (offense) — but also retained Hank Hughes (assistant head coach, defensive line), Matt Cersosimo (wide receivers, recruiting coordinator), Mike Foley (offensive line), Joe Moorhead (quarterbacks), Darrell Perkins (safeties) and Jon Wholley (linebackers).

Moorhead served as offensive coordinator under Edsall while Wholley coached the tight ends. DeLeone will work with the tight ends and Brown the cornerbacks.