Career
White currently plays for Irish provincial side Connacht in the Pro12, who he joined from Leinster ahead of 2012-2013 season. His main position is as a prop, primarily playing at tighthead. New Zealand White first played rugby for the Te Awamutu Sports Club.
In 2002, he joined the National Provincial Championship side, Waikato.
White was brought in to play for Super 14 side the Chiefs in 2006. The 2006 Super 14 season saw the Chiefs finish in 7th overall and 3rd from the New Zealand teams.
The Air New Zealand Cup had replaced the National Provincial Championship that season. White started at tighthead prop in the final of the cup, as Waikato beat Wellington 37–31.
White served as the captain of Waikato for two years before leaving both Waikato and the Chiefs to move abroad.
Ireland = Leinster White moved to Irish provincial side Leinster in 2011 on a one-year contract, joining ahead of the 2011-2012 season. He played 17 times in the Pro12 that season, 9 of these appearances coming from the bench. He scored one try in the competition, this coming against the Cardiff Blues on 2 December 2011.
= Connacht After his year with Leinster was finished, White joined another Irish province, this time Connacht Rugby.
He signed with the team on a three-year contract in February 2012 and joined them ahead of the 2012-2013 season. In his first season with the club, White played 16 games in the 2012-2013 Pro12, starting 14 of them and scoring one try.
He also played 5 games in that season"s for the province. In January 2015, Connacht and the IRFU announced that White had signed a Two Year contract extension, which will see him play at the Sportsground until at least the summer of 2017.
In October 2014, White became qualified to play for Ireland through the three-year residency rule.
White was named in the Irish squad for the end of year tests, but a bicep injury ruled him out until January. In January 2015, White was one of only two uncapped players included in Ireland"s extended squad for the Six Nations. On 30 January 2015, at the age of 33, White made his first appearance for an Irish national team, featuring as a replacement for the Ireland Wolfhounds.
A late arrival to International Rugby, in the space of seven months White has accumulated Thirteen Irish caps with four starts up to 20 March 2016.
