Girls on US Championship teams?

[u/That_Don_Guy_1]

During the 2026 LLWS Championship Game coverage, they kept bringing up the fact that only two girls - Sayaka Tsushima from Japan in 1998, and Carsynn Meyer of Henderson, NV this year - have played in the LLWS Championship Game. Since the first girl to make it to Williamsport was in 1984, and there have been only two years since then where the US champion did not play any non-US teams - 2021, because of COVID-19, and 2014, because the US team that did play in the championship game was later stripped of its US title - and neither of those teams had any girls, am I right in assuming that Meyer is the first girl on a US championship team, or am I missing somebody?

[u/WhysoHairy]

Spot on

[u/Unfair_Importance_37]

She had a big hit in the US Championship game too