[1] In 2010, he played in the final game of the season for his state team in the Australian Hockey League.

[10] He won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, playing in every match at the Games for Australia.

The Cup featured teams from Pakistan, Malaysia, India, South Korea, Britain and New Zealand.

[13] In December 2011, he was named as one of twenty-eight players to be on the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian men's national training squad.

[14][15][16] In February during the training camp, he played in a four nations test series with the teams being the Kookaburras, Australia A Squad, the Netherlands and Argentina.

[18] At the 2014 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, de Young became just the fourth man to make 300 national team appearances for Australia (the other three being Jay Stacy, Brent Livermore and Jamie Dwyer).