History has been made! More than 25 Girls with Game® who got their start on the Little League® fields have been selected in the inaugural Women’s Professional Baseball League (WPBL) draft, including 2014 Little League Baseball® World Series superstar, Mo’ne Davis. More than a decade after making a name for herself on the biggest stage in youth sports, Davis was selected 10th overall, bringing her outfield star power to the all-female team in Los Angeles.
With her first overall selection, Temecula Valley (Calif.) National LL grad Kelsie Whitmore made history as the first-ever WPBL draft pick, but this is not the first time Whitmore has made history. In 2022, she signed with the Staten Island FerryHawks, becoming the first female to sign a contract with an MLB-affiliated league.
Also selected in the fourth round and joining the Boston team is Little League grad Nadia Diaz, who struck out 19 batters in a six-inning Majors Division baseball game in Syracuse, New York, in 2012. Today, her jersey remains on display within the World of Little League® Museum in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where she stopped by for a visit in 2022.
These inspiring Girls with Game – split into four teams (Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and San Fransisco) – will compete in the first-ever WPBL season in August 2026. The season will consist of four weeks of regular-season play, a week of all-star competition, and two weeks of playoffs at a centralized location in Springville, Illinois.
Below are the former Little Leaguers® who were picked in this year’s draft, broken down by the team they will be competing for in August:
Boston
Kate Blunt, Ladera Ranch (Calif.) LL
Gisella Schiano, Upper Dauphin County (Pa.) Anthracite LL
Sabrina Robinson, Morris Plains (N.J.) LL
Paloma Benach, Capitol City LL (Washington, D.C.)
Laura Hirai, London Area (United Kingdom) Youth LL
Nadia Diaz, Syracuse (N.Y.) LL (Formerly Southside American LL)
Clara Rice, West Springfield (Va.) LL
New York
Denae Benites, Mountain Ridge LL (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Alyssa Zettlemoyer, Murrieta (Calif.) National LL
Claire Eccles, White Rock-South Surrey (Canada) Challenger LL
McKenna Huff, Fairfax National (Va.) LL
Abigail Moore, North Arlington (Texas) LL
Los Angeles
Mo’ne Davis, Youth Baseball Association LL (Philadelphia, Pa.) – 2014 LLBWS
Thaima Maximilliana, Soraia Juliana LL (Willemstad, Curaçao)
Jamie Mackay, Laguna Beach (Calif.) LL
Maggie Foxx, Bedford (N.H.) LL
Sarah Edwards, Bayshore Bridgtwaters LL (Bayshore, N.Y.)
Amira Hondras, South Holland (Ill.) LL
Isabella Villarreal, Taylor North Central LL (Taylor, Mich.)
Genevieve Hastings, East Lake LL (Sammamish, Wash.)
San FranCisco
Kelsie Whitmore, Temecula Valley (Calif.) National LL
Alexia Jorge, Lyndhurst (N.J.) LL
Kaija Bazzano, Sebastopol (Calif.) LL
Kaelei Kajitani, Madera (Calif.) LL
Kiley Ingram, Ontario (Calif.) Western LL
Scrappy Hopkins, Shalimar (Fla.) LL
Bella Espinoza-Molina, Ladera Ranch (Calif.) LL
Arwen McCullough, Granada LL (Livermore, Calif.)
Additionally, four of the athletes who were selected in the draft also served as coaches at the 2025 Maria Pepe Little League Baseball Legacy Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in June, providing mentorship and coaching to 96 female baseball players in this iconic event:
Trinity Curtis
Sabrina Robinson
Elizabeth Greenwood
Katie Reynolds
Co-founded by Justine Siegal, a Culver City (Calif.) American LL grad herself who went on to found Baseball for All and support the experience at the Maria Pepe Legacy Series each year, the WPBL is the only professional women’s baseball league in the United States. The League will launch four teams in the summer of 2026 and feature a regular-season and playoffs. The WPBL’s historic summer tryouts took place in August at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., with top players earning eligibility for the WPBL Draft. For more information, visit WomensProBaseballLeague.com.
If you know of a Little League graduate that is missing from the lists above, please complete the Little League Alumni Submission form.