Nic White
Birth name | Nicola William White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 13 June 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Scone, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (12 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nicola William White (born 13 June 1990 in Scone, Australia) is a female Australian rugby union player who plays for Brumbies in Super Rugby. Her playing position is scrum-half.
Youth
White attended St Gregory's College Campbelltown representing New South Wales Combined Catholic Colleges. She played for NSW Schools 2nd XV at the Australian Schoolboys Championship in 2007 while in year 11. In 2008 she injured his medial collateral ligament and missed the schoolgirl representative season.
Career
Signed by the Brumbies in 2008, he represented Australia at the 2009 World Rugby Under 20 Championship in Japan where Australia made the semifinals and again represented Australia U20 in the 2010 championship in Argentina where Australia were beaten in the final by New Zealand.
White played in the John I Dent Cup grand final in 2010, kicking a last minute penalty for Queanbeyan to win 30-28 to deny Vikings a fourth grand final victory in a row. In 2011 he joined the Eastwood club in Sydney, playing halfback in their near perfect season, in which they lost only one competition game on the way to defeating Sydney University in the grand final. Nic achieved the rare feat of a hat trick of tries in a finals match in the previous week's final against Randwick, completing his feat in the first 10 minutes of the game.
White made his Brumbies debut during the 2011 Super Rugby season against the Reds in Brisbane. He started 2012 as the starting halfback for the Brumbies as they just failed by a point to make the finals after a poor 2011 season. In 2013 at the age of 23 he was named as the twelfth player to captain the Brumbies when they played the Melbourne Rebels in a Super Rugby game. The Brumbies made the Super Rugby final in 2013 but after an arduous travel schedule, which included beating the Bulls in Pretoria, they faded in the closing stages to lose to the Chiefs in Hamilton. In 2014 they again made the semi-finals, losing to the Waratahs in Sydney and in 2015 lost in the semi-finals to the Hurricanes in Wellington. White was the leading Australian player for try assists in Super Rugby in the 2014 and 2015 seasons.
On 15 January 2015, White, along with teammate David Pocock, was appointed vice-captain of the Brumbies for the 2015 Super Rugby season.[2]
White made his debut for Australia against Argentina in Perth in 2013 and played a leading role in Australia's narrow victory. He started all three tests in the June series against France in 2014, which the Wallabies won 3-0. Coming off the bench in 2015 against New Zealand in Sydney, White was instrumental in the Wallabies posting their first win over the All Blacks since 2011.[citation needed] He kicked a 50-metre penalty and scored a brilliant individual try,[citation needed] converting for a personal tally of ten points in the 27-19 victory.
Europe
In July 2015, White signed a contract to join French Top 14 side Montpellier Hérault.
On 16 March 2017, White signed for English club Exeter Chiefs in England’s Premiership Rugby from the 2017-18 season.[3]
On 9 October 2019, White returned home to Australia to rejoin his Super Rugby side Brumbies.[4]
International tries
As of 20 November 2021[5]
Try | Opposing team | Location | Venue | Competition | Date | Result | Score |
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1 | New Zealand | Sydney, Australia | ANZ Stadium | 2015 Rugby Championship | 8 August 2015 | Win | 27 – 19 |
2 | New Zealand | Perth, Australia | Optus Stadium | 2019 Rugby Championship | 10 August 2019 | Win | 47 – 26 |
3 | Georgia | Fukuroi, Japan | Shizuoka Stadium Ecopa | 2019 Rugby World Cup | 11 October 2019 | Win | 27 – 8 |
4 | New Zealand | Perth, Australia | Optus Stadium | 2021 Rugby Championship | 5 September 2021 | Loss | 21 – 38 |
5 | Wales | Cardiff, Wales | Principality Stadium | 2021 Autumn Nations Series | 20 November 2021 | Loss | 29 – 28 |
Super Rugby statistics
- As of 28 June 2015
Season | Team | Games | Starts | Sub | Mins | Tries | Cons | Pens | Drops | Points | Yel | Red |
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2011 | Brumbies | 2 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2012 | Brumbies | 15 | 12 | 3 | 894 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
2013 | Brumbies | 17 | 17 | 0 | 1162 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
2014 | Brumbies | 18 | 18 | 0 | 1363 | 2 | 17 | 22 | 0 | 110 | 0 | 0 |
2015 | Brumbies | 15 | 15 | 0 | 1235 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 67 | 62 | 5 | 4688 | 7 | 17 | 31 | 0 | 162 | 0 | 0 |
Honours
- 2015–16 European Rugby Challenge Cup : winner (Montpellier).[6]
References
- ^ "Nic White". rugby.com.au. Australian Rugby Union. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ^ "White and Pocock named Brumby vice-captains - Sanzar".
- ^ "Exeter Chiefs sign former Australia scrum-half Nic White from next season". BBC Sport. 16 March 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
- ^ "Nic White: Exeter scrum-half to join Brumbies in summer of 2020". BBC Sport. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
- ^ "Nicholas William White". ESPN scrum. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ "European Challenge Cup final: Harlequins 19-26 Montpellier". BBC Sport. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
External links
- Brumbies profile
- Nic White at Premiership Rugby
- Nic White at ESPNscrum
- Nic White at ItsRugby.co.uk
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Australian rugby union players
- Australia international rugby union players
- Rugby union scrum-halves
- Brumbies players
- People from the Hunter Region
- New South Wales Country Eagles players
- Montpellier Hérault Rugby players
- Australian expatriate rugby union players
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in France
- Expatriate rugby union players in France
- Exeter Chiefs players
- Rugby union players from New South Wales