Women’s Baseball - The Inside Pitch

In episode four of the Girls Are Players Too series, we jump into the world of Queensland women's baseball and discuss all things maroon!

We hear from Queensland baseball legend Karina Connors, Head Coach of the Queensland White team in 2025, about what she has seen across her 25 years in maroon baseball, the excitement of winning the 2023 Youth Nationals gold, coaching male and female athletes, and more.

Molly “The Business” Paddi...

Welcome to the "Girls are Players Too" Podcast, a special series brought to you by Women's Baseball The Inside Pitch.   GRP2 will count down to the 2025 Australian Women’s and Australian Youth Women’s Championships which will take over Melbourne Ballpark from April 13-19.  

WBIP founder Amy McCann teams up with fellow Emeralds alumni Tahnee Lovering and Amy Cannington and this trio knows their Nationals!McCann claimed seven nation...

Welcome to the "Girls are Players Too" Podcast, a special series brought to you by Women's Baseball The Inside Pitch.   GRP2 will count down to the 2025 Australian Women’s and Australian Youth Women’s Championships which will take over Melbourne Ballpark from April 13-19.  

WBIP founder Amy McCann teams up with fellow Emeralds alumni Tahnee Lovering and Amy Cannington and this trio knows their Nationals!McCann claimed seven nation...

Welcome to the "Girls are Players Too" Podcast, a special series brought to you by Women's Baseball The Inside Pitch. GRP2 will count down to the 2025 Australian Women’s and Australian Youth Women’s Championships which will take over Melbourne Ballpark from April 13-19.

WBIP founder Amy McCann teams up with fellow Emeralds alumni Tahnee Lovering and Amy Cannington and this trio knows their Nationals! McCann claimed seven national c...

From April 13-19, six open women’s teams (16+) and five youth women’s sides (U16) from across the country will compete in Melbourne at the 2025 Australian Women’s and Youth Women’s Championships.

The schedules dropped earlier this week and in this conversation, Amy McCann invites Baseball Australia's National Tournament Director Michael Ibbotson discuss the upcoming Australian Women's and Youth Women's Nationals, exploring the intr...

Welcome to the second episode "Beyond the Bases which will hit up the grassroots of Australian baseball to hear from clubs doing great things for women and girls baseball all across the country. 

Today we travel to Townsville to chat all things Townsville women's baseball and for a chat with Paula Doherty (1:43), Emma Reid (16:00) and Nicola Caldwell (26:42). 

Plus remember to visit womensbaseball.me for all your women's baseball n...

Welcome to the first episode of a new season of Women's Baseball The Inside Pitch. 

"Beyond the Bases" will hit up the grassroots of Australian baseball to hear from clubs doing great things for women and girls baseball all across the country. 

For the inaugural episode, we visited the Carine Cats Baseball Club in Perth, Western Australia to hear about chat with President Craig Padifield, Junior Chair Kelly Wiersma and Junior Playe...

What a 2024 for Audrey Cheung! 

Going yard at the world's first Little League Nationals in Lismore and then repping Team Australia at the U12 World Cup quallies in Guam.

In this episode, Amy McCann interviews Audrey Cheung from Victoria, Australia. Audrey shares her journey in baseball, starting from her early days playing t-ball to her experiences in the Australian Little League Championships and her recent selection for the Austr...

In Season 6, travel around Australia's diamonds to hear from the people, clubs, organisations and players doing great things down under for Aussie women's baseball. 

Episode 3 features dual World Cup Emerald Claire O'Sullivan, a legend of New South Wales Baseball. Hear about Claire's start in regional NSW, her time with Country NSW, her Emeralds debut and that seven year gap between time in the green and gold, plus her recent stint...

In Season 6, we travel around Australia's diamonds chatting to the people, clubs, organisations and players doing great things down under for Aussie women's baseball. 

For episode 3, we hit the top end to hear about all things Northern Territory women's baseball, significantly the Darwin Women's League.

Listen to Kai Meuronen, Participation & Pathways Manager at Baseball NT, Head Coach of the Stingers Gemma Scales (16:50), and ...

In Season 6, travel around Australia's diamonds chatting to the people, clubs, organisations and players doing great things down under for Aussie women's baseball. 

For episode 2, we travel to Perth, Western Australia, to speak with Baseball WA CEO Lachlan Dale about the new WA Elite Women's Series, and all things WA Women's Baseball. 

We also have a chat to rising stars Ava Tyson (23:46) and Chloe Atkinson (34:51)  who featured in...

In Season 6, we travel around Australia's diamonds chatting to the people, clubs, organisations and players doing great things down under for Aussie women's baseball. 

For episode 2, we talk all things The Barclay Cup, which is an epic week of baseball honouring Jacinda Barclay, a standout Australian athlete, one heck of a ballplayer, and an even better person off the field, who sadly passed away in 2020.

The Cup brings together fe...

Welcome to Season 5 Episode 6 of Women's Baseball the Inside Pitch.   This season is all about 'Firsts' and today's episode talks all things about the first major documentary on the modern-day international women's baseball community.     In this episode, Amy McCann chats with acclaimed sports photographer Jean Fruth who with Jeff Idelson, former president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum, has directed and produ...

Welcome to Season 5 of Women's Baseball the Inside Pitch, “Firsts”, where a host of trailblazing players from around the world share their stories about how and when they became the first woman to…….   In Episode 5, I chat with Amy Collins, now Cannington, from Australia.    One half of the first sister duo to play for Australia, Amy has won nationals with Victoria and NSW and has played three World Cups for Australia.  Enjoy! ...

Welcome to Season 5 of Women's Baseball the Inside Pitch, “Firsts”, where a host of trailblazing players from around the world share their stories about how and when they became the first woman to…….   In Episode 4, I chat with Laura Hirai from London, England!   Laura has etched her name into the history books as the first women to play baseball for the Great Britain U16/U18 (boys) National teams, the first woman to represent b...

Welcome to Season 5 of Women's Baseball the Inside Pitch, “Firsts”, where a host of trailblazing players from around the world share their stories about how and when they became the first woman to…….   In Episode 3, I chat with Morgan Doty, who launched herself onto the women's baseball world in a big way in 2010 with an epic walk-off double which gave WA their first National Championship victory.  That just got Doty's career st...

Welcome to Season 5 of Women's Baseball the Inside Pitch, “Firsts”   Join me as a host of trailblazing players from around the world share their stories about how and when they became the first woman to…….   In Episode 2, I chat with 17yo Isobel Lambert from New South Wales who in 2023 became the first Australian woman to play at a Senior League World Series.   In 2024, Isobel was also a coach of the NSW team which became the in...