Mitchell White (born 28 March 1973) is a former Australian rules football (AFL) player who played for the

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and Geelong. Along with

Glen Jakovich Glen Darren Jakovich (born 24 March 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). Jakovich was recruited from South Fremantle in the West Australian Football League ...

, White was a priority draft choice from WA in 1990. In 1996 he was outstanding after being switched to center half forward after being a defender for his whole career. If it hadn't been for some school mates he would have probably kept playing

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and he did not play competitive football till his early teens. By 17 he was playing senior football for Subiaco. He played just two games for the Eagles in 1991 then advanced to be part of the 1992 flag side. A severe groin injury wrecked his 1993 and most of the 1994 season. Not a big marking player, he was very mobile and had strong hands. Although he wasn't a high-profile player he was considered to be a key performer by other clubs. He made the 1996

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team. Great stamina was his trademark. Early in 1997 he injured a knee which sidelined him for a year. White reached the position of vice-captain in 2000 but was traded at the end of the year. At Geelong in 2001 he was an effective forward but only managed 7 games in the next two seasons which signaled his retirement.

Statistics

:Mitchell White's player profile at AFL Tables
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1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...

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1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

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1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 12 , , 12 , , 12 , , 5 , , 81 , , 54 , , 135 , , 45 , , 10 , , 1.0 , , 0.4 , , 6.8 , , 4.5 , , 11.3 , , 3.8 , , 0.8 , , 0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2001 , style="text-align:center;", , 19 , , 16 , , 16 , , 12 , , 116 , , 87 , , 203 , , 78 , , 22 , , 1.0 , , 0.8 , , 7.3 , , 5.4 , , 12.7 , , 4.9 , , 1.4 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2002 , style="text-align:center;", , 19 , , 5 , , 2 , , 3 , , 33 , , 18 , , 51 , , 14 , , 13 , , 0.4 , , 0.6 , , 6.6 , , 3.6 , , 10.2 , , 2.8 , , 2.6 , , 0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2003 , style="text-align:center;", , 19 , , 2 , , 3 , , 0 , , 13 , , 2 , , 15 , , 8 , , 1 , , 1.5 , , 0.0 , , 6.5 , , 1.0 , , 7.5 , , 4.0 , , 0.5 , , 0 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 174 ! 124 ! 75 ! 1455 ! 870 ! 2325 ! 744 ! 203 ! 0.7 ! 0.4 ! 8.4 ! 5.0 ! 13.4 ! 4.3 ! 1.2 ! 7

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:White, Mitchell Geelong Football Club players West Coast Eagles players West Coast Eagles Premiership players 1973 births Living people Subiaco Football Club players All-Australians (AFL) Australian rules footballers from Perth, Western Australia People educated at Carine Senior High School Western Australian State of Origin players One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players