Gen Beacom

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 6' 2", Weight 165 lb.

• High School Flinders Christian Community College - Tyabb Campus

• Born October 30, 2004 in Melbourne, Victoria Australia

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Biographical Information

Gen Beacom was the first female player on an Australian Baseball League team and threw the fastest pitch by a female player in the world.

Beacom was the first Australian girl to appear in the Cal Ripken World Series and the first lady to pitch in Victoria's top division. She pitched briefly for the Melbourne Aces in January 2022, the first woman to play for an ABL team, but there was no 2021-2022 ABL season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so she did not officially appear in a game. A 2023 article lists her fastball as hitting 85.9 mph, the fastest of any female baseball player.

Gen made the Australian women's national team for the first time at the 2023-2024 Women's Baseball World Cup. She was their starting pitcher in their opener versus Team USA and also hit 5th. She began with a 1-2-3 inning against Ashton Lansdell, Alex Hugo and Jillian Albayati, the latter two by strikeout. She retired the next four as well - Remi Schaber, Olivia Pichardo, Kelsie Whitmore and Anna Kimbrell - then ran into control issues, walking Valerie Perez, Denae Benites and Lansdell. A wild pitch scored one run. She recovered to strike out her 4th batter, Hugo, but walked Albayati, and was relieved by Allison Steane, who let an inherited runner in. She took the loss to Elise Berger, going 0-for-2 at the plate before Leah Cornish pinch-hit. Her first hit was a single off Adriana Palma of Mexico, driving in Morgan Doty. She got another start but again had control problems (2 2/3 IP, 2 H, 6 BB, 4 K, 4 R, 3 ER) in a no-decision against Canada's Alli Schroder; Steane again took over on the hill. For the Cup, she hit .308/.308/.308 with 3 runs in 4 games, handled 11 chances error-free (playing 1B as well as P and DH) and was 0-1 with a 6.56 ERA. She tied for the Group A lead in starts (even with Berger, Rosa del Castillo, Hei-Ting Lau and Palma), tied for 10th with 5 earned runs allowed, tied Yin-Sum Kwong and Debby Su-Yee Mak for 3rd in walks (10; she was the only non-Hong Kong hurler in the top 5), tied Raine Padgham for second in strikeouts (8, two behind Sarah Pengelly) and led in wild pitches (four). It didn't help her numbers that she faced the top two teams in the pool.

In 2024, she committed to play college baseball in the US at East Central College.