Aaron Whitchurch (born 3 May 1992) is an Australian professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer who most recently played for the

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in the

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. He plays as a and .

Playing career

Born in Fremantle, Western Australia. Whitchurch moved to Queensland at age eight, playing in his first junior football team with the Stanley River Wolves before being signed by the

. Whitchurch played for the Broncos' NYC team from 2010 to 2012, scoring 13 tries in 36 games. In February 2012, Whitchurch's

coach, Anthony Griffin, revealed that Whitchurch's future was in the forwards due to his strength and speed. In Round 17 of the

2012 NRL season The 2012 NRL season was the 105th season of professional rugby league club competition in Australia, and the first run by the newly formed Australian Rugby League Commission. The main competition, called the 2012 NRL Telstra Premiership due to spon ...

, Whitchurch made his

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debut for the Broncos against the

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. He scored a try on debut.

Representative career

In 2012, Whitchurch was named at in the inaugural Under 20's State of Origin match for

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References

External links

Brisbane Broncos profileNRL profile
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