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Join Amy McCann, Team Australia alumni (2002-2014) and 6-time WBSC World Cup representative, for a trip around the bases with some of women’s baseball’s elite players and coaches, in addition to a host of trailblazing women making their way in baseball all across the world. Learn what got them into baseball, how and where they developed their passion for the game, about their challenges and motivations, and what drives them each day.
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Stacey Saggus - 2012 - One World Cup Wonders For the fifth episode of this series, we hear the story of NSW's Stacey Saggus who made her Nationals debut at the age of 15 at the 2003 Australian Women's Championship where she won gold! Stacey shares with us her journey in baseball in NSW and her progression to the 2012 Australian Team at the World Cu…
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Part 2 - Kathy Welsh - 2010 - One World Cup Wonders For the fourth episode of this series, we hear the story of Victoria's Kathy Welsh who took up the sport in her early 20s, before making her Nationals debut at the 2005 Australian Women's Championship with Victoria Provincial, before graduating to the Victorian team where she was part of Victoria'…
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Part 1 - Kathy Welsh - 2010 - One World Cup Wonders For the fourth episode of this series, we hear the story of Victoria's Kathy Welsh who took up the sport in her early 20s, before making her Nationals debut at the 2005 Australian Women's Championship with Victoria Provincial, before graduating to the Victorian team where she was part of Victoria'…
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Ep3 - ‘One Cup Wonders’ - Bec Crosby (2008) For the third episode of this series, sit back and travel to 2008, and to Matsuyama in Japan, for the third IBAF World Cup and a chat with WA's Bec Crosby. Making her Nationals debut in 2006 as a 15yo, Bec was part of WA's stunning 2010 and 2012 nationals winning outfits, before making her Team Australia …
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For the second episode in the 'Oe Cup Wonders' Series, we go back to 2006 and to Taiwan for the second IBAF World Cup, for a chat with Victoria's Terina Stokes. Hailing from New Zealand, from making her baseball debut in a pair of trackies in the mid 90s, Terina's baseball career took her to the inaugural Victorian (1999) and Australian (2001) team…
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2023 will see the return of the WBSC women’s baseball world cup for the first time since 2018, so to coincide with this, this season will focus on each of the eight World Cups held since 2004 …….. but with a twist! A little background before we dive in. Less than 70 Australian women have donned the green and gold for Australia at a World Cup. I was…
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🎧 New Episode Alert 👉 Jason Pospishil - Team Australia Baseball Emeralds Manager. From how Jason started playing baseball in Sydney, his move into coaching and across to the Emeralds, his coaching philosophies and of course the shaping of the Australian Squad for the 2023 WBSC World Cup, this episode sure has a lot packed into an hour! Enjoy! 🎧 iTu…
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In 1999 in the western suburbs of Melbourne, 20 of the best women’s baseball players in Victoria would step onto the artificial turf at Melbourne Ballpark in Altona which would begin a legacy that remains unrivalled in the sport in Australia today. The event - the inaugural Australian Women's Championships. The team - the Victorian Women's Team. Th…
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#AWBC2022 The first sisters to play for Australia in a World Cup together, Kim and Tammy McMillan join the show to recap the clash of QLD v NSW. WATCH the episode here https://youtu.be/-E1aEw9guH8 Kim (2008-2018) and Tammy (2016-2018) are both Country NSW alumni, but the pair later moved to play for NSW and QLD respectively. Hannah Marshall and Jor…
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#AWBC2022 WOW! Baseball WA walk it off for the second straight night in Adelaide! Joining us to recap a stunning two days for the Perth HEAT is team leader Kaila Borgomastro and team alumni Natalie House (nee Rawlings). The episode can also be viewed on YouTube here https://youtu.be/LnOSSyEWfl4 Also, apologies for the slight audio lag on Borgs’ vid…
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#AWBC2022 I chat to 12x Nationals rep and 2012 Team Australia World Cup rep Amanda Torrington who is repping the maroon for Queensland at the 2022 Australian Women's Championships in Adelaide this week. WATCH THE INTERVIEW https://youtu.be/WOAKf4lvNHc Torro's nationals career started with Queensland in 2010, before she moved to Victoria where she p…
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#AWBC2022 Day 3 Victoria v NSW Game Recap with NSW duo Brooke Shiels and Tahnee Lovering plus special episode drop ins from Ticara Geldenhuis (NSW) and Morgan Doty (VIC)! WATCH THE EPISODE https://fb.watch/csZhyG2FJL/ A dual Team Australia alumni (2006, 2010) Brooke Shiels was part of Australia's 2010 silver medal-winning outfit. A proud NSW team m…
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The Inside Pitch #awbc2022 podcasts will be coming at ya daily from the 2022 Australian Women’s Baseball Championship in Adelaide! Australian and Victorian alumni Kathy Welsh joins the show to chat about all things nationals, opening day, Victoria's double header and more! Plus Aussie and Vic star Bronwyn Gell drops in live from Adelaide following …
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In an epic episode, I chat with Australian baseball history enthusiast Tanith Harley who takes us through the origins of baseball in Australia for girls and women which date back to 1909! In the second half of the episode, we bring to you a full rundown of the 1934 All-Australian Women's Baseball Interstate Series held at the University of Sydney i…
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Karina Connors My guest today is Karina Connors, or Sexo, cos when I met her she was Karina Sexton so that is what so many of us still call her. A born and bred Lismorian (Lismore is on the far north coast of New South Wales just 100km south of the NSW/QLD border), Karina first picked up a tee-ball bat in the 80s before then taking up softball. Onc…
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International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day to celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness against gender bias, and take action for equality. The theme for 2022 International Women's Day (IWD) is #BreakTheBias. In baseball, many women have had to break bias at some point in their baseball journey, whether it has been as a player, an ump…
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International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day to celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness against gender bias, and take action for equality. The theme for 2022 International Women's Day (IWD) is #BreakTheBias. In baseball, many women have had to break bias at some point in their baseball journey, whether it has been as a player, an ump…
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2022 International Women’s Day: International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day to celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness against gender bias, and take action for equality. The theme for 2022 International Women's Day (IWD) is #BreakTheBias. In baseball, many women have had to break bias at some point in their baseball journey, whether…
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S02 E02 - Tahnee Lovering - Australia When you’ve spent 18 years at the highest level of any sport, one thing is clear, you must be one of the very best in the game. And Sydney’s Tahnee Lovering is just that. Tahnee was hooked on baseball from the age of 6 and instantly fell in love with catching. Selected to make her National Championships debut w…
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17-year-old Australian Genevieve Beacom made history in January 2022 as the first female pitcher for an Australian professional baseball team. Gen took to the mound in the sixth inning for the Melbourne Aces in the team's Melbourne Challenge Series game against the Adelaide Giants. She pitched a scoreless inning without giving up a hit at Melbourne…
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#WomensBaseballInsidePitch Up next on The Inside Pitch, I head to Europe, Rotterdam in The Netherlands to be specific, to chat with five-time World Cup veteran Loes Asmus. Loes chats about her start in baseball at seven years of age, before a switch her sport of choice to softball as there were no opportunities in the Netherlands for girls to keep …
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2021 signifies the twentieth anniversary of the inaugural Women's World Series held in July of 2001. The World Series, which was won by the USA and featured games at the Toronto SkyDome, was the precursor of the Women's World Cup as we know it today. The first episode in a special three-part series on the World Series featured Donna Mills of the US…
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