| Personal information | |||||||||||
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| Born | 2 October 2000 Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||
| Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfield | ||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||
| 2019– | HC Melbourne | ||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||
| 2018–2018 | Australia U–18 | 12 | (31) | ||||||||
| 2019–2019 | Australia U–21 | 5 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2025– | Australia | 0 | (0) | ||||||||
Medal record
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Benjamin 'Ben' White (born 2 October 2000) [1] is a field hockey player from the Australia. [2]
Benjamin White was in Melbourne, Victoria, and grew up in Blackburn. [3] [4]
He is a scholarship holder at the Victorian Institute of Sport. [3]
Hailing from Victoria, White plays for the KBH Brumbies. He is captain of the club's senior squad in Hockey Victoria Premier League competition. [4] [5]
At national level, he represents HC Melbourne in Hockey Australia's premier domestic competition, the Liberty Hockey One League. [6] [7] In 2024 he was a member of the championship squad which saw HC Melbourne win the fourth season of the Liberty Hockey One League. [8]
Throughout 2018, White captained the Australian U–18 side. [9] He led the team to Youth Olympic Games qualification at the Oceania Qualification Tournament in Port Moresby. [10] He then went on to lead the team at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, with the team ultimately finishing in sixth place. [11]
White made his first and only appearance for the Australian U–21 side, the Burras, in 2019. He was a member of the squad at an Eight–Nations Invitational Tournament in Madrid. [9]
Following a standout Hockey One season in 2024, White was named to the wider Kookaburras squad for 2025. [2] He has since been named to make his debut during the Sydney leg of the 2024–25 FIH Pro League. [12]
