For more than four decades, Girls with Game® have been making their mark on the biggest stage in Little League Baseball®.
In 1984, Victoria Roche became the first girl to compete in the Little League Baseball World Series, making history with Brussels (Belgium) Little League. Since then, players from around the world have followed in her footsteps, from Victoria Brucker becoming the first girl to pitch and record a hit at the event in 1989 to Mo’ne Davis captivating fans around the world with her performance in 2014.
Now, two more Girls with Game have added their names to that history. With participation in this year’s event, Kinley Rasmus of Phenix City (Ala.) Youth Baseball Little League and Carsynn Meyer of Paseo Verde Little League (Las Vegas, Nevada) became the 25th and 26th Girls with Game, respectively, to compete in the event. They also made history together as the first two girls representing United States teams to compete in the same Little League Baseball World Series with the three previous duos of Girls with Game including players from Canada.
While they share that historic distinction, each of this year’s Girls with Game has taken her own path to Williamsport.
Kinley Rasmus — Southeast Region
For Kinley Rasmus, getting to Williamsport is more than the realization of a dream. It is also a continuation of a family tradition more than a quarter-century in the making.
The 12-year-old from Phenix City, Alabama, plays shortstop and takes the mound as a right-handed pitcher for the Southeast Region champions. And when asked why she plays Little League®, her answer pointed directly toward the place she will now get to experience herself.
“I play Little League in hopes to make it to the World Series in Williamsport like my Dad and Uncle Colby did in 1999,” Kinley said in her Pre-Region Tournament Questionnaire.
That dad is former Major League pitcher Cory Rasmus, and her uncle is former Major Leaguer Colby Rasmus – both played in the 1999 Little League Baseball World Series. Baseball runs even deeper through Kinley’s family with her other uncle, Jeff Mathis, playing as a Major Leaguer, while her grandfather, Tony, and uncle, Case Rasmus, having played professionally in the Minor Leagues.
Twenty-seven years after Cory and Colby made their trip to Williamsport, Kinley has now earned one of her own.
She helped Phenix City return to the Southeast Region Tournament after the team won its second consecutive Alabama state championship. Once there, Kinley helped the Alabama champions complete their journey to Williamsport, adding another chapter to a family story intertwined with the game.
But for Kinley, Little League is about more than following in her family’s footsteps.
“The most fun thing about Little League is playing and making memories with my friends and my cousin Ryker,” she said.=
Away from baseball, Kinley enjoys flag football, swimming, and spending time at the lake. She also plays softball and competitive flag football, lists Caitlin Clark as her favorite athlete and Texas as her favorite sports team, and hopes to become an orthodontist one day. Her pregame routine is refreshingly simple: chew bubble gum.
Carsynn Meyer — Mountain Region
For Carsynn Meyer, Williamsport is already a familiar place.
Just two months before earning her trip to the Little League Baseball World Series with Paseo Verde Little League, the 12-year-old from Henderson, Nevada, came to Williamsport as a participant in the 2026 Maria Pepe Little League Baseball® Legacy Series, A Girls with Game® Experience.
Carsynn was among the players selected for the third annual event, which brought Girls with Game from across the United States and around the world together for a weekend centered on baseball, development, and creating opportunities for girls in the game.
Now, she is back — this time as a Little League Baseball World Series player.
Carsynn, nicknamed “CarCar,” plays outfield and catcher and is listed as a right-handed left fielder for Paseo Verde. She says the reasons she plays Little League are simple: “To play with my friends, have fun and get better.” And her favorite part is “playing with all the boys I’ve played with for years.”
That group of longtime teammates has now taken her all the way from Henderson to Williamsport.
Carsynn’s love for the game shows up throughout her life. Baseball is her favorite sport to play, the Kansas City Royals are her favorite team, and Andrew Benintendi is her favorite baseball player — so much so that she chose No. 16 during the regular season because Benintendi wore the number during his time in Kansas City.
Her role model is Las Vegas basketball star Kelsey Plum, and Carsynn has big athletic aspirations of her own: her dream job is to become a professional athlete.
Before games, Carsynn gets ready by blasting her pump-up playlist at full volume. Away from the diamond, she enjoys baking and boating and competes in basketball and flag football.
Two More Girls with Game Make History
Kinley and Carsynn arrived in Williamsport as part of a history that stretches back to Roche’s groundbreaking appearance in 1984.
They join a list that includes players such as Krissy Wendell, Katie Reyes, Mo’ne Davis, Maddy Freking, Ella Bruning, Stella Weaver, and many more who have shown generations of young players that there is a place for Girls with Game on the baseball diamond.
Little League launched its Girls with Game initiative in 2019 to celebrate the girls and women who have shaped the program and inspire future generations of female participants. Today, that mission includes creating more opportunities for girls throughout Little League Baseball and Softball and ensuring that young athletes can see others like themselves playing the game at every level.
Kinley and Carsynn are the latest examples.
One grew up dreaming of reaching the same World Series her father and uncle played in 27 years earlier. The other stepped onto the fields in Williamsport earlier this summer as part of an event created specifically to give girls more opportunities in baseball, only to earn her way back with the teammates she has played alongside for years.
Their paths are different.
Their destination is the same.
And as they continue to take the field in Williamsport, Kinley Rasmus and Carsynn Meyer have not only become the 25th and 26th Girls with Game to play in the Little League Baseball World Series — they are showing the next generation watching from home exactly where their own love of the game can take them.