Cricket, rugby league, touch football, AFL, or athletic field, it doesn’t matter which.

Having begun league with the under-sixes team, Jaxson has been turning the sod on a sporting career since he could hold a ball.

His continued on-field contribution to the Riverina was recognised at Saturday’s Australia Day celebrations, when he was awarded the title of junior sportsperson of the year.

“I wasn’t really aware of [the award],” Jaxson said.

“I knew I was nominated but I didn’t think too much about it.”

When he’s not on the field, he’s on the road, travelling enormous distances to get to his next game.

In fact, immediately after the ceremony on Saturday morning, Jaxson and his family hit the road to Sydney to play a pre-game in the touch football junior state cup.

This coming week, the family will travel to Goulburn for another pre-season game.

But that is a relatively quiet weekend for them.

“Training’s four times a week in Wagga,” Jaxson said.

“We probably go to Sydney once a month too.”

In the past year, Jaxson has played footie in Adelaide and Hobart, and cricket in Orange.

During the under-13 Western NSW Carnival earlier this year, Jaxson managed to take at least five wickets against some of the best young players in Sydney, ACT and regional NSW. 

“The past year, we were barely home,” said Jaxson’s mother Tanya.

Starting high school at Kildare this week, Jaxson is keen to soon make his mark at the next level. But he has already had copious experience playing with and against older players.

“I play under 14s and under 13s for touch and cricket, sometimes also fourth grade,” Jaxson said.

“Sometimes I play up a grade in league.

“I’m always ready to. [When] I was in Adelaide playing for NSW, the Queenslanders were pretty massive, but it wasn’t too bad. It’s a little different but still pretty much the same.”

The adventurous sporting spirit has not always saved Jaxson from injury. Two years ago, while practicing long jump at school, he broke his left arm.

Even still, a few weeks later he still managed to qualify for the 100m state finals, and place in the relay race.

“I had to run with a broken arm, but it was OK, just my left arm. I’m right handed, so not too bad,” he said.

Determined to master every sport, recently, the 12-year-old Junee sports star turned his hand to golf, just to add another sport to his growing wheelhouse. 

“I started [golf] just to give it a go,” Jaxson said.

“I’m not very good yet, I’d like to get better.”

But for all the time he’s spent on the field, Jaxson can’t pinpoint the thing he loves most about it.

“My favourite is probably all of [the sports I play,” he said.

“I like being competitive, I like meeting the other players. I just like playing.”