{"id":515640,"date":"2026-03-03T08:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515640\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:56:18","slug":"tasmanias-mia-barwick-becomes-youngest-player-in-australias-under-19s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515640\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmania\u2019s Mia Barwick becomes youngest player in Australia\u2019s under-19s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mia Barwick first picked up a cricket bat as a 9 year-old when her brother\u2019s Glenorchy team was short a player.<\/p>\n

Now aged 15, she has become the youngest player selected for Australia\u2019s under-19s squad, marking a breakthrough moment for the state\u2019s cricket development.<\/p>\n

Barwick, from Mangalore in the Southern Midlands, will represent Australia in a tri-series against England and Sri Lanka in Brisbane next month.<\/p>\n

She said she hasn\u2019t looked back since that call-up to the all-boys team.<\/p>\n

\"\"Barwick started playing cricket at age 9 for her brother\u2019s Glenorchy team<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no girls teams and then I was on the sidelines and my brother only had nine players in his team,\u201d Barwick told Pulse.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo they asked me and then yeah, I never looked back after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"The Sacred Heart College student said she is aiming for the Australian women\u2019s cricket team one day<\/p>\n

Her father Nathan Barwick said she\u2019s always shown a drive to succeed, even in family board games or sport in the backyard played amongst family.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe always had to either hit the last run or kick the last goal before we go inside,\u201d Nathan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s very, very competitive. Cricket Tasmania coaches say the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever she has done, from a young age, she\u2019s been talented really.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Barwick has been playing first-grade cricket at North Hobart for the past three years<\/p>\n

\u201cShe still continues to amaze me with some of the things she does.\u201d<\/p>\n

The results haven\u2019t come without sacrifice. While her friends are celebrating birthdays and going to parties, Barwick is usually either training or preparing for matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s sacrificed a lot,\u201d her dad said.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously the talent\u2019s there, but she works very hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"The Mangalore teenager balances school and elite cricket training<\/p>\n

\u201cShe never misses training, even if she feels sick or anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barwick has already been playing first-grade cricket at North Hobart for three years and made her debut for Tasmania\u2019s WNCL team this season.<\/p>\n

To play cricket at the highest level remains the long-term ambition for the Sacred Heart College student.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously to represent Australia in the women\u2019s team, that\u2019s like the main goal for me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The tri-series runs for nearly three weeks from March 30 and forms part of preparations for next year\u2019s under-19s World Cup.<\/p>\n

Barwick said she doesn\u2019t get nervous before big tournaments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m more just excited to get out there and yeah, show what I\u2019ve been working on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mia Barwick first picked up a cricket bat as a 9 year-old when her brother\u2019s Glenorchy team was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-515640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}