“I’m trying to find the one a college where I not only like the baseball program but also somewhere I will enjoy living, as it’s quite a big move, obviously,” says Beacom, who graduated from Flinders christian community college in Tyabb, Victoria last year.īeacom, this week named in the Australian women’s squad for the upcoming World Cup, hopes to get a full scholarship “at a great school” in a good conference and would like to study psychology. She was the first girl to represent Australia at the Cal Ripken World Series in the US at just 12, the first to represent Victoria at Under-16 level and the first to pitch in division one baseball in Victoria before she took to the mound for the Melbourne Aces in the Australian Baseball League’s Melbourne Challenge in January 2022.Īfter her time with Tread coaches, who shared vision of her on social media, the quietly spoken teenager has “had a bunch of coaches reach out already”. The only other Australian female to have played collegiately in the US is Queenslander Luisa Gauci.īeacom says playing college ball is the “next logical step” in her convention-busting career. If she makes it in the US, Beacom would be as much of a trailblazer as she is in her home country. In baseball, the genders are allowed to compete against each other but rarely do, meaning she has played almost exclusively against males since she was nine years old. But I know there are little girls around the world who do.’ Photograph: Brendon Beacom Photography ‘When I look in the mirror I don’t see somebody to look up to.
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