South African centre Calvin Whiting played in Major League Rugby between 2020-2023. Whiting represented the Utah Warriors for the entirety of his MLR career.

Whiting is a capped USA Eagle, qualifying for the US through residency after he moved from South Africa to Utah in high school. Whiting attended Brigham Young University in Utah between 2015-2019 as a Management major, earning his International debut for the USA in February 2017, against Chile in the Americas Rugby Championship.

The Utah Warriors announced the signing of Calvin Whiting in February of 2019 ahead of the 2019 season, but he didn’t earn his MLR debut until the 2020 season where he started all 5 games of the COVID-19 shortened season, scoring his first MLR try. From the 2020, Whiting was a regular in the Warriors lineup, earning 49 MLR caps between 2020-2023, starting 43 times. He scored a total of 4 tries and 115pts, with a personal best of 58pts in 2022 and a total success rate of 75.47% from the tee (40/53). As of the conclusion of the 2023 MLR season, he was one of only 5 players to have scored over 100pts for the Warriors. He earned a total of 6 MLR Team of the Week selections, 3 of these coming in the 2023 season where he gained over 700m and made 131 successful tackles.

On 26th September, 2023, Whiting announced his retirement from professional rugby at the age of 27.

Achievements:

• MLR Team of the Week: 2023 – Round 15
• MLR Team of the Week: 2023 – Round 14
• MLR Team of the Week: 2023 – Round 12
• MLR Team of the Week: 2022 – Round 16
• 10th in MLR Tackling: 2021 (183)
• MLR Team of the Week: 2021 – Round 15
• MLR Team of the Week: 2021 – Round 11