Career
He is currently the men"s hockey head coach of the Lake Superior State Lakers. Whitten played junior hockey for the Detroit Freeze of the North American Hockey League in 1995-1996 before moving to the Saint Michael"s Buzzers in the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League the following season. Beginning in the 1997-1998 season, Whitten played 4 years for the Michigan State Spartans, and was named alternate captain in his senior season.
After college, he turned pro, playing two seasons in the ECHL: in 2001-2002 for the Greenville Grrrowl (winning the league championship Kelly Cup) and 2002-2003 for the Arkansas RiverBlades.
He played his final game in the 2003-2004 season for the Lansing Ice Nuts in the short-lived International Independent Hockey League. Whitten returned to Michigan State in 2004-2005 to serve as an assistant coach under head coach Rick Comley.
He then spent one season as an assistant at Wayne State before moving to Alaska Anchorage for two seasons. In 2006, he returned to his alma mater where he was named Director of Hockey Operations.
Whitten returned to the bench in 2010, when he was an assistant coach at Michigan Technology
On April 26, 2014, Whitten was named head coach at Lake Superior State.