North Vancouver’s Rowan Wick was selected by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 19th round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player draft held last week.

Wick, a Grade 12 student at Carson Graham, currently plays for the Vancouver Cannons of the B.C. Premier Baseball League and is also a member of Canada’s Junior National Team.

Wick followed the draft using an online draft tracker and waited a day and a half through the lengthy process before his name popped up.

“It was very exciting for me,” Wick said about getting picked, adding that Milwaukee’s system is a good place for young players to get their starts.

“They’re not as rich as, say, the Yankees. They have to develop their players which is better for me because they can’t just go out and buy a million-dollar player.”

Wick, a catcher and right fielder, follows another B.C. product into the Brewers organization. Langley’s Brett Lawrie was picked in the first round, 16th overall, in 2008. He entered the organization as a catcher but was moved to second base and now plays in AA and is considered one of the club’s top prospects.

Wick must now decide if he is going to sign with the Brewers and play rookie ball starting in the fall or remained unsigned and play NCAA baseball for St. John’s University — a team he has already signed with. That decision needs to be made by Aug. 15 but Wick and his family are still weighing their options.

“We haven’t decided yet,” he said.

Before then he will take the field again for the Junior National Team, playing at a training camp in July before suiting up for the World Junior Baseball Championship July 23-Aug. 1 in Thunder Bay, Ont.

Wick is the first player ever drafted from the Cannons in the club’s short two-year history in the PBL.

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