2025 Women’s, Youth and Girls State Titles Wrap Up
Our Largest, Most-Engaged Female Titles Event Ever
2025 marked the 8th iteration of the Queensland Women’s, Youth Women’s, and Girls State Titles. Launched in 2018, the event featured a 7x team Women’s division – 4x Youth and 3x Girls teams representing 143 participants. Everything has grown since then, but many of the players are the same.
2025 saw our longest event ever – a full 3 days of competition for both Women’s Divisions 1 and 2, expanding Friday from a night game to a full day of action, through to Sunday afternoon. This happens a year after our Youth Women and Girls event was expanded from 2 to 3 days, a result of player feedback, improved considerations for athlete health and, the growth of these divisions creating scheduling pressures.
The result was 6x games for each of the 5x Division 1 Women’s, 8x Division 2 Women’s, 6x Youth Women’s and 4x Little League Girls teams, who represented 395 registered players, coaches, umpires, scorers and EOs.
Sharing the Stories, the Successes and the Growth
This year, thanks to the Federal Government’s Play our Way funding, we were able to engage some extra help to ensure that this event got some of the visibility it deserves.
Some of that help arrived in the passionate Amy McCann, founder of The Inside Pitch. Amy’s story is worthy of it’s own article, but we’ll give you the… inside pitch. An Australian Emeralds (National Women’s Team) Alumni with six World Cup appearances, two medals and named on two All-World teams, Amy has played baseball since the age of 13, she also had a stint of semi-pro baseball in Japan. In 2021 she launched The Inside Pitch podcast and has expanded it since, now running a blog, offering merchandise (where the profits go back to women’s baseball!), commentating and delivering on-site content at events that elevate and amplify the athletes, initiatives and events that are the reason the Women’s game continues to grow across the country.
We’re grateful to have welcomed Amy to our event and thankful for the content that she’s accumulated across the weekend… we’re also thankful for the BYE for her local club team that lined things up perfectly.
We also welcomed Thomas from Waddo Visuals to produce videography content during the event! His high quality videography has captured numerous moments and interviews through the tournament that will be released in the lead up to the Australian Women’s Championships in April!
We are extremely grateful to have had the services of Erin Honsa (Studio Honsa) and Michael Lovell (Desolve Images) to capture action shots, snaps from around the grounds and our team photos.
Stay tuned for the release of their galleries!
Women’s State Titles
Indians Baseball Club, Runcorn
Division 1
North Queensland Storm
Brisbane Metro
Brisbane North
#4 Brisbane West
#5 Gold Coast
The mighty North Queensland Storm once again take the Division 1 Championship, demonstrating the strength and consistency emerging from their expanding local competitions!
Division 2
Brisbane South Green Gold Coast Baseball NT Buffaloes
#4 North Queensland Storm
#5 Brisbane West
#6 Narangba Rascals
#7 Narangba Demons
#8 Brisbane South Gold
A significant showing in Division 2 with teams from across Queensland, in the start of a strong year for Brisbane South, Brisbane South Green took the Championship over Gold Coast. In a battle of the North, Northern Territory Buffaloes took bronze over North Queensland.
First-time coaches gained experience in the North Queensland squad and the Northern Territory team entry marked their first representative Women’s team in 12 years, their effort and energy appropriately rewarded with the Bronze.
Another sign of growing women’s programs is the entry of two Narangba Demons teams, a club which has skyrocketed to take the spot as one of the largest clubs in the country after successive years of impressive membership growth.
Baseball5
On Friday and Saturday at Indians, Joe Surrentino ran Baseball5 Come and Try opportunities! A number of spectators and athletes from various teams came over to give it a try! Read his recap and see the highlight reel by visiting the article below!
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Thank you!
Finally, we must extend our gratitude to the volunteers, parents, relatives, partners and host venues.
Firstly to the host venues for their preparation, groundskeeping, ordering, lunch, waste, parking management among every other hidden responsibility. We thank their teams of volunteers for their preparation and delivery.
Secondly to our tournament staff and the team volunteers, between coaches, umpires, scorers and EOs and their countless hours in preparation for the tournament as well as their management of their teams, their safety, wellbeing and enjoyment… and all the strategy stuff everyone whose sat on the sideline knows isn’t actually that hard. Thank you. Our tournament staff, Tournament Director Anna Day and Assistant Tournament Director, Tara Sands, Scorer’s Coordinators Sharon Teakle and Leigh Tate, as well as QBUA’s Umpire Coordinators, John Proper, Steve Horrigan and the legendary Barry Foat for all of their time, work, coordination and compliance checks.
We must also acknowledge and thank the spectators, the family members, the partners and friends, your energy, your attendance and support of our teams, staff and athletes are what make these events as special as they are.
As we sign off on another Women’s, Youth Women’s and Little League Girls State Titles, Thank You!
What’s Next?
Queensland Women’s Squad selected athletes have been sent their invites via email, and you can expect to see the squad take on the inbound Kobe Koryo Gakuen High School in round 2 of the Kookaburra Cup Friendship Series hosted at All Stars Baseball Club on the 21st and 23rd of December. https://www.baseballqueensland.com.au/calendar/kobe-koryo-qld-dec25/
Female athletes under the age of 18 are able to express their interest in joining our tour to Japan in June 2026 by visiting the following link: https://www.baseballqueensland.com.au/eoi-japan-tours-15-26-june-2026/
Queensland Youth Women’s identified athletes will be contacted soon to begin preparations for the Australian Youth Women’s Championships.
Little League Girls are able to express their interest in attending the 2026 Australian Little League Girls Championships by visiting this page: https://www.baseballqueensland.com.au/ll-girls-2026-eoi/
