Career
Mitton is a striker. Mitton first joined the Australian team as part of the 19-member Champions Trophy squad at the 2010 Men"s Hockey Champions Trophy in Mönchengladbach, Germany. He is part of the Australian team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. Mitton plays for the Washington Thundersticks in the Australian Hockey League.
He played for the team in the first found of the 2011 season.
In December 2011, Mitton was named as one of fourteen players to be on the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian men"s national Olympic development squad. While this squad is not in the top twenty-eight and separate from the Olympic training coach, the Australian coach Ric Charlesworth did not rule out selecting from only the training squad, with players from the Olympic development having a chance at possibly being called up to represent Australia at the Olympics.
He trained with the team from 18 January to mid-March in Perth, Western Australia.
