Summer’s cricket season may be over for some, but for Hannah Faux, there isn’t a lot of time to store the bat, if at all.
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As a rising young star for women’s cricket, Hannah Faux’s regular meets for her Mid North Coast team between Forster to the Queensland border will be the norm during this winter.
She has already set her next cricketing goal for selection in the under-18s all-girls squad for NSW/ACT at the NSW Country Championships this October, a tough call given she has only just turned 15.
Fortunately, the teenager will get a second chance to be selected as one of the ‘Australian Eleven’ team instead should she not make the NSW/ACT under-18’s squad because of her youth.
As one of two winners of last year’s Excellence Award, the nomination of Faux in last year’s Port Macquarie-Hastings Sports Awards was greeted with excitement by the judges.
“I’d think most local women would be in awe of Hannah as the only female in her two cricket club teams and her ‘rep’ Mid North Coast team,” says Jenny Sinclair, President of the Rotary Club of Port Macquarie Sunrise.
“Not only that, but she is so highly regarded; that it is a real achievement for her in her male-dominated sport to be appointed captain of her all-boy district team and the all-girls North Coast team.
“Online nominations for the Port Macquarie Hastings Sports Awards are open now, so we are encouraging all summer sports to consider who their star players and volunteers are before the opportunity slips away.
“To be able to support such talented sports persons is what makes presenting the awards on behalf of our Hastings area so exciting.”
Faux sees herself as a middle order batter or a second or third change ‘off-spin’ bowler when she plays as the only girl for her two clubs – Port Macquarie Junior Cricket Club and Port City Leagues Magpies third grade seniors’ team on a Saturday.
As a Hastings Secondary College student selected for the North Coast Combined High School under-15 years team, she topped last year’s nomination as ‘Rookie of the Year’ to win the ‘Alex Blackwell Award’ for the top points in the carnival this year.
Naturally, Hannah hopes to play for Australia, so a spot in the female ‘NSW Breakers’ would be a natural stepping stone.
To that end, Hannah has been supported by Cricket NSW to attend many weekend and school holiday camps.
Her favourite cricket star and role model is all-rounder Ellyse Perry, who made her debut for both the Australian cricket and the Australian women's national soccer team at the age of 16.
At 15, and with all her current cricketing accolades under her belt, Hannah is not far away.