Katelyn Fryett


Katelyn Fryett is an Australian cricketer who plays for Tasmanian Roar and Hobart Hurricanes as a pace bowler.
Born in Launceston and raised in Bracknell, Tasmania, Fryett played backyard cricket with her brother Brad, and would bowl to him a lot. As a junior cricketer, she played for her school, and also with the local under-16 boys’ team. She began her interstate cricket career by playing for several seasons in Tasmanian underage and Cricket Australia Cup teams. In 2008 and again in 2009, she was named Tasmania's top female cricketer.
At the start of the 2009–10 season, Fryett made her debut for Tasmanian Roar at the age of 17 years, when the Roar joined the domestic WNCL competition.
In December 2009, she became the Roar's first national representative, upon being named in the Shooting Stars national development squad as a replacement for Ellyse Perry, who had commitments to her W-league soccer team.
In 2013, Fryett was omitted from the Shooting Stars squad, but at the end of the 2013–14 season, she secured a Shooting Stars contract after taking nine wickets in six of that season's WNCL matches at an average of 25.44.
Fryett experienced another setback early in the 2014–15 season, when a knee injury caused her to miss a round of WNCL matches against Queensland Fire. However, the injury turned out to be not as serious as first thought.
The following summer, Fryett was part of the Hurricanes squad for its inaugural WBBL01 season, during which she took two wickets. She remained in the squad for the WBBL02 season. During the Australian winter of 2017, she played cricket in Ireland with the support of an Adam Gilchrist Scholarship, funded by the Lord's Taverners. She then rejoined the Roar and the Hurricanes for the 2016–17 season.
Fryett also plays netball for the Arrows team in Tasmania's ANZ State League.