CRANBERRY TWP — Have arm, will travel.

Such is the mantra for Mia Ryan, an incoming sixth-grader at Haine Middle School who can throw a softball as if she was much older than age 10.

“Some kids just have it,” her father, Hunter Ryan, said. “You’re either born with it or you’re not. She just has a great arm.”

Mia is in her second season as the starting third baseman for her Pittsburgh Power youth team. That squad finished second in the 10-under USSSA World Series last season in Ocean City, Md.

Now playing on the 12-under team, Mia and her teammates return to Ocean City for the USSSA World Series next week.

But her summer season will extend beyond that.

Mia is one of four 10-under softball players from the Pittsburgh region to make the USA Elite Select Futures All-American Northeast Region Fast Pitch softball team. Her throws have been clocked at 46 miles-per-hour.

“I learned from my dad,” Mia said of her throwing. “He works with me on it.”

Mr. Ryan said Mia attended a May 8 tryout for the Northeast team. There were 150 girls vying for spots.

He received an email a short while later indicating his daughter had made the team.

“I don’t know much about this, but it’s pretty exciting,” he said.

Mia will be an infielder for the 10U Northeast Region team, which is comprised of players from Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.

The team is known as Region 8 and will compete against seven other region teams Aug. 1-6 at the All American Games, played at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Champion Stadium in Orlando, Fla.

“I was pretty nervous at the tryouts,” Mia admitted. “I didn’t know anybody there.”

She won’t know any of her Northeast teammates, either, until she meets them in Orlando.

“That’s a family vacation now,” her father said.

Hunter Ryan is a Hampton graduate who played basketball, ran track and cross country in high school. He’s also dabbled in softball, football and martial arts.

Now working in law enforcement, he is involved in weight lifting and bodybuilding now.

“I’ve always been fit and active in a lot of sports,” he said. “Mia is the same way. She plays indoor soccer in the fall and played football in the Seneca Valley North program last season.”

This fall, Mia plans to play girls basketball in the Seneca Valley district.

She played baseball for a year before switching to softball and joining the Power last year.

“We started her off in baseball because of her throwing arm,” Mr. Ryan said. “But we were advised to switch her over to softball early in her youth.”

That suits Mia just fine.

“I like softball better ... I was surrounded by boys in baseball,” she said.

Now, she’s simply surrounded by success.

“Mia’s a pretty good hitter, too,” her father said. “She bats No. 2 in the Power lineup and is a good bunter who hits line drives.

“But it’s that throwing arm that’s setting her apart so far.”