n Australian baseball prodigy believed to be the fastest female pitcher on the planet is fielding interest from US colleges and quietly dreaming of becoming the first woman to pitch in Major LeagueGenevieve Beacom, 18, a left-hand pitcher with a 138kph fastball and mean curveball, who last year became the first female to play for a professional team in Australia, has just returned home to Victoria after a three-month stint at Tread Athletics, a private US-based baseball development facility.
After 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”. With most US conferences in-season now, it may be a while before she gets an offer she wants and relocates, like her 25-year-old brother Sam who attended Lower Columbia College in Washington and Charleston Southern University in South Carolina.“Hopefully in the next couple of months, I can find the one but if I don’t this year, that’s OK, I’m not stressed about it,” she says. “I can just do it again next year. I’m still young.