Stephanie White was the first captain of the Canada women's national rugby union team in 1987, co-captained the national team at the first Women's Rugby World Cup in 1991, captained the team at the second World Cup in 1994,[1] and also captained the first participating Canada women's national rugby sevens team in the Hong Kong Sevens invitational tournament in 1997.
She also sat on the British Columbia Rugby Union Board of Directors, bringing the West Coast Women's Rugby Association into the BCRU in the early 2000s.
White is also the Chairperson of the Monty Heald Fund which aimed to eliminate Pay to play for the senior women's team.
In 2017, she was given an Honorary Life Member award at the 2017 Rugby Canada Hall of Fame.
[4] Her husband Hans de Goede and their children, Sophie and Thyssen, have represented Canada at the national level.