Mitch White (footballer, Born 1996)
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Mitch White (born 10 April 1996) is a former professional
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er who played for the
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in the
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(AFL). A defender, tall and weighing , White plays primarily as a half-back flanker. He entered top-level football early when he played as a bottom-aged player for the
Dandenong Stingrays The Dandenong Southern Stingrays are an Australian rules football team in the NAB League, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition. 1992 saw the birth of the Southern Stingrays, developed under the leadership of Steve Kennedy (Regional Ma ...
in the
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in 2013, the next season saw him win the club
best and fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...
. He was recruited by the Melbourne Football Club with the twentieth selection in the 2015 rookie draft and he made his AFL debut during the 2015 season. He played four matches in the AFL before he was delisted at the conclusion of the 2017 season.


Early life

White was raised in
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,
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and played his junior football with the
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. He played for the
Dandenong Stingrays The Dandenong Southern Stingrays are an Australian rules football team in the NAB League, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition. 1992 saw the birth of the Southern Stingrays, developed under the leadership of Steve Kennedy (Regional Ma ...
in the
TAC Cup The NAB League Boys (also referred to as simply the NAB League and formerly known as the TAC Cup) is an under-19 Australian rules football representative competition held in Australia. It is based on geographic regions throughout country Victo ...
as a bottom-aged player in 2013, playing six matches. He was selected again to play for Dandenong in 2014, playing sixteen matches and was awarded the club
best and fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...
.


AFL career

White was recruited by the Melbourne Football Club with their second selection and twentieth overall in the 2015 rookie draft. He made his
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(VFL) debut for Melbourne's affiliate team, the
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, in round three and spent the majority of 2015 playing for Casey. He made his AFL debut in the twenty-six point win against at
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in the final round of the season, in which he recorded sixteen disposals and six marks. The 2016 season saw White play predominately in the VFL before he was upgraded to the senior list in July. He played his first AFL match of the year in the thirty-two point win against at
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in round sixteen, in which he recorded twenty disposals and received praise from then-Melbourne coach, Paul Roos. He retained his spot the next week in the thirty-six point loss against at Etihad Stadium, before being omitted for the round eighteen match against at Domain Stadium. He returned to the VFL and helped Casey claim the minor premiership and reach their first grand final since 1999, in which the club ultimately lost to by thirty-one points. An ankle injury forced White to miss the entire
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and VFL practice matches, before playing his first match of the year in the round two VFL match against . After "terrific VFL form" according to senior coach,
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, he played in his first AFL match for the season in the round fifteen match against at the
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. It was ultimately his only AFL match for the season and after four matches in three seasons with Melbourne, he was delisted in September. He subsequently signed with the for the 2018 VFL season.


Statistics

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2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
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2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...
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References


External links

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from Demonwiki {{DEFAULTSORT:White, Mitch 1996 births Living people Melbourne Football Club players Dandenong Stingrays players Casey Demons players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)