White (18) led the charge at the annual Otago secondary schools athletics championships, when 18 records were broken.
White's crowning achievement was to break the New Zealand Athletes With Disability ID shot put record with a distance of 9.60m.
It beat the old national record by 1.05m and the Otago secondary school record by 2.98m.
He is coached by Sport Otago's Sportcoach head Mike Waddell.
"Ricky's a natural and is good at everything," Waddell said. "He is a natural talent and is very fast in the circle."
Waddell believes that White could become an international in AWD sport.
"It is up to him. It depends how far he wants to go," he said.
Secondary school Record breakers:
Nicole Bradley (Queens), Eilish Forward (St Hildas), David Takarei (Kings), Matthew Aitken (Otago Boys), Ricky White (Sara Cohen), Sam Hollows (South Otago), Cailtlin O'Brien (St Hildas), Rebekah Greene (St Hildas), Louise Harvey (St Hilda's), Guy Woodhouse (Kavanagh), Lauren Wilson Queens), Anna-Lisa Uttley (Bayfield), Anna Kean (Bayfield), Shauna Pali (Kavanagh), Biddy Skerten (Columba), Samara Dalziel Columba), Stephanie Lee (Columba), Sophie Napper (Columba), Shauna Pali (Kavanagh), Reubyn Bisschops (St Kevins), Mackenzie Haugh (Kings).
White also broke two sprint records, winning the 100m in 13.17sec and the 200m in 27.44sec.
He broke the 100m record by 3.05sec and the 200m by 1.75sec.
White was followed home in the 100m by David Takarei (Kings) in 15.13sec and Matthew Aitken (Otago Boys) 15.29sec, who both bettered the previous record.
The only other throwing record went to Nicole Bradley (Queens) with her shot put of 10.45m, which beat a 2001 record by 59cm.
Rebekah Greene (St Hildas) set records in winning the girls under 16 800m (2min 18.26sec) and 1500m (4min 41.22sec).
She led from the start in the 800m to beat Katrina Finn's 2003 record by 3.58sec and the 1500m record by 15.36sec.
Greene's training partner Anna-Lisa Uttley ran second in 4min 52.33sec, also under the previous mark.
Uttley won the 3000m in 10min 28.94sec, beating the old mark by 39sec.
Shauna Pali (Kavanagh) was second in 11min 06.04sec and also beat the previous record.
Greene and Uttley are the elite athletes in the squad of former Australian coach Jim Baird, whose athletes broke nine records.
Another was Anna Kean (Bayfield) who broke the record in the girls under 15 400m in a time of 1min 00.88sec.
She also went under the previous record when finishing second in the girls under-15 800m in a time of 2min 22.80sec.
She was beaten by her training partner, Caitlin O'Brien (St Hildas), who clocked 2min 21.40sec.
O'Brien also broke the 1500m record with a time of 4min 56.26sec.
Her training partner, Sam Hollows (South Otago), won the girls under 14 1500m in 4min 57.51sec.
Both these records were held by Louise Harvey (St Hildas) who put herself back in the record books, when she won the senior girls 1500m in 4min 54.59sec to break the record by six seconds Harvey also set a record in the 3000m by 31sec, when she broke Sarah Bryant's 2003 record with a time of 10min 44.75sec.
Reubyn Bisschops (St Kevins) also bettered the previous mark when finishing second in 11min 12.07sec.
Sprint records went to Lauren Wilson (Queens) in the senior girls 200m (26.31sec), Guy Woodhouse (Kavanagh) in the boys under-16 200m (22.99sec) and the Columba College senior girls 4 x 100m relay team of Biddy Skerten, Samara Dalziel, Stephanie Lee and Sophie Napper (52.59sec).
The only jumping record went to Eilish Forward (St Hildas) when she won the girls under 14 long jump with a leap of 4.84m.
In addition, Mackenzie Haugh (Kings) broke an Athletics Otago aged 14 record in the boys under 14 high jump with a leap of 1.70m.
The school record is 1.73m.
