Parkview Public School student Miah Weymouth lining up for NSW at the 2023 School Sport Australia AFL Championships

Miah will represent with the NSW Primary School Sports Association's under 12s girls side over the coming week as part of the School Sport Australia AFL Championships.

To be held in Albury, the event will see Miah and her team coming up against others from the ACT, Queensland, South Australia, the Northern Territory, Victoria and Western Australia.

The team is being coached by Parkview Public School principal Travis Irvin, with the side getting together in the recent school holidays to train and play matches in the lead up to the championships.

Miah was selected as an injury replacement after impressive performances at the State Championships in May.

"We went to Barooga and trained there for three days ... we played the under 14s Albury team and we beat them," Miah said.

"I'm pretty excited (about the championships).

"I play in the forward (line). I like to kick lots of goals. I haven't really played much Aussie Rules before apart from school, so it's pretty cool.

"I think our team will go pretty good."

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Miah excels at a number of sports, including soccer, basketball and has recently been giving netball a try as well.

This year is just the third time the girls teams have featured at the championships, but the first event was cancelled during the pandemic.

"So last year was the first actual competition," Irvin said.

"Victoria and WA were the two strongest sides and then South Australia finished third.

"We were very competitive against South Australia, losing by a goal to them.

"We did beat Queensland and ACT. NT are coming this year. I think we'll be very competitive this year.

"We've set some goals for the week."

Miah said those include winning a few games at the nationals.

The young star will head to Albury on Saturday, August 5 with an opening ceremony on Sunday, August 6 before the first game against Queensland later that same day before the competition continues throughout the week.

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