Warren Whiteley

Warren Whiteley
Full name	Warren Roger Whiteley
Date of birth	18 September 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth	Durban, South Africa
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	110 kg (17 st 5 lb; 240 lb)
School	Glenwood High School
University	North-West University
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	Number eight
Current team	Lions / Golden Lions / Golden Lions XV
Senior career
Years	Team
2008–2009	Sharks XV
2009	Mighty Elephants
2010–2018	Golden Lions XV
2010–2018	Golden Lions
2011–2019	Lions
2016–2018	Red Hurricanes
	Correct as of 8 September 2019
International career
Years	Team
2012–2014	South Africa Sevens
2014–2018	South Africa
2015	Springboks
	Correct as of 13 November 2018
Representing South Africa
Men's Rugby sevens
Commonwealth Games

Warren Roger Whiteley (born 18 September 1987) is a South African former professional rugby union player for the Lions in Super Rugby, the Golden Lions in the Currie Cup and the Golden Lions XV in the Rugby Challenge. His regular playing position was eighthman.^[1] He has previously played for the Sharks and the Blitzbokke.

Whiteley has been the captain of the Lions in Super Rugby since 2014, when the team was re-introduced to the competition. The team has reached two finals in 2016 and 2017, which were losses against the Hurricanes and Crusaders respectively, since Whiteley was named captain.

In 2016, Whiteley became a regular starter for the Sprinboks following an injury to regular number 8 Duane Vermeulen in the second test against Ireland. Following Vermeulen's injury, Whiteley played the full 80 minutes of every game for the rest of the year, with the exception of the Barbarians fixture on 5 November, which Whiteley did not play in. Whiteley also scored three tries that year, crossing over the line against Argentina, Australia and Ireland,

Whiteley was named the new 58th captain of the Springboks in 2017, following Adriaan Strauss' retirement from international rugby. Whiteley was ruled out of the final mid-year test against France due to injury, however, being replaced as captain by Stormers lock Eben Etzebeth. Whiteley missed the Super Rugby playoffs due to injury, with Jaco Kriel taking over as captain of the Lions. He went on to miss the entirety of the remaining 2017 season.

He returned in the opening match of the 2018 Super Rugby tournament for the Lions against the Sharks. However, he sustained an injury against the Blues and missed the majority of the Super Rugby season as well as the mid-year internationals, a match against Wales and a three-match series against England. Siya Kolisi took over captaincy in the absence of Whiteley and Etzebeth and kept his captaincy beyond the return of the two players.

Whiteley would go on to lead the Lions to the final of the 2018 Super Rugby tournament, a 37–18 loss to the Crusaders, the third consecutive time that the Lions were runners-up in the tournament. Whiteley started every game for South Africa in the 2018 Rugby Championship, including a 34–36 victory against New Zealand at Westpac Stadium. The Springboks came in second in the championship.

References

^ "Warren Whiteley". ESPNscrum. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

External links

[1] "Warren Whiteley". ESPNscrum. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

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