Jason Phillip Randall White was RBS Man of the Match for the heroic lead which gave Scotland the 2006 Calcutta Cup triumph over England. His leadership and his personal performances on the field led to his being named The Famous Grouse Scotland Player of the Year at the Scottish Rugby Awards Dinner in May that year.

Jason led Scotland for the first time in the narrow loss to Argentina in November 2005, beginning a run of 11 successive internationals as captain, a sequence broken by a knee injury in the November 2006 Test against Romania. After nine months out of action he returned to lead Scotland to victory in the 2007 World Cup warm-up match against Ireland at Murrayfield. He continued in charge in the Murrayfield match against South Africa two weeks later and the Rugby World Cup games against Portugal, Romania, Italy, and Argentina plus the 2008 RBS Six Nations Championship matches against France and Wales, taking his captaincy tally to 19. He missed the subsequent Dublin international against Ireland because of injury, but he returned as a highly effective impact replacement in the Murrayfield victory against England. He was back as starting blind-side flanker for the Bank of Scotland Corporate Autumn Tests against New Zealand and South Africa at Murrayfield in November 2008. In 2003-2004 he maintained his try-scoring exploits for Scotland with his third try in four games when he crossed for the opening try in the RWC Countdown Test victory over Italy. Earlier that year he was named RBS Man of the Match for his part in Scotland’s win against Wales. He followed up with his first Murrayfield Test try in the Six Nations victory against Italy and crossed the whitewash again in Scotland’s next match – the narrow 25-29 defeat to South Africa in Durban. In 2002 he scored his first Test try in Scotland’s 65-23 win against the USA on their tour of North America. He missed the first Scottish Mutual Autumn Test that year (against Romania) because of injury but returned as a substitute in the win against South Africa. He retired with concussion after only 20 minutes in the following game, against Fiji. Earlier that year he was voted The Famous Grouse Scotland player of the match in the contest against England. He made his first appearance for Scotland as a lock in the September 2001 success against Ireland. His previous seven caps had all been on the flank, beginning with his debut in the April 2000 victory against England. He was back on the flank and weighed in with a pulverising 17 tackles in the November 2001 win against Tonga. He played in five games on the 2000 summer tour of New Zealand, including both Tests. In addition, he scored Scotland’s first try in the 15-18 loss against the Maori.

Back in New Zealand he made a winning contribution during the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour: a late injury call-up for England’s Richard Hill, he was in characteristically belligerent form as the Lions defeated Auckland 17-13.

Jason was Scottish Schools’ vice-captain on their 1996 tour to South Africa and led Scotland's under-19 team in 1997, first to victory over their English contemporaries and then in the FIRA Junior World Championship in Argentina. He returned to South Africa with the 1999 Scotland touring team, playing in two of the four matches and scoring a try against Northern Free State. He led Scotland under-21 in four of his seven outings at that level, and he had a try-scoring debut for Scotland A in the 99-0 win against the Netherlands at Murrayfield in December 1999. In all, he has played in seven A internationals, and in the most recent of those he scored two tries in the 22-all draw with the Irish at Bridgehaugh, Stirling, in 2003.

Jason was educated at Cults Academy (Aberdeen) and George Watson’s College (Edinburgh) and first sampled club rugby with Aberdeen Wanderers before joining Watsonians. He played the last of his 107 games for Glasgow Warriors in April 2003 and then joined Sale Sharks. During his Glasgow career he led the side seven times.