At just 19 years old, Anne Lewicki is the first female member of the Toronto Blue Jays' grounds crew in the nearly 40-year history of the franchise.

On game days, she's fielding pop flies for the reigning American League East champions and preparing the Rogers Centre field for the action.

For Lewicki, a first-year University of Guelph business student, the job is a dream come true.

"It's been amazing so far," she said after watering the Jays' new dirt infield ahead of their series against the New York Yankees. "Just being around baseball in general at this level is incredible."

It's particularly special for a lifelong Blue Jays fan.

"Since I was born, I was a Toronto sports fan and baseball's been the biggest sport for me growing up and I grew up following the Jays," Lewicki said.

It isn't her first time working in baseball, either. Last summer Lewicki volunteered for the Pan Am Games and worked on grounds crews at both the soccer stadium in Hamilton and the baseball field in Toronto.

After a family friend who works as an usher at the Rogers Centre encouraged Lewicki to apply as an usher, she found the grounds crew position and applied immediately.

"The opportunity to continue that passion for baseball, something I've learned a little bit in, was the perfect dream come true," Lewicki, who has played softball for eight years, said.

She believes her experience working on the fields at the Pan Am Games prepared her for the job.

"There were certain things I'd done that gave me some background knowledge," she said. "Some of these things are new but I wasn't coming in blind."

It's a busy job. You're constantly dragging something, Lewicki said.

When she's not watering or raking, she's setting up lines and making sure the dirt's not mixing with the turf. There are standards she's proud to uphold.

Other females have been offered grounds crew positions before, but head groundskeeper Tom Farrell has to compete with security and ushering for the top candidates.

"They (the candidates) kind of go where they want, so we were thrilled when Anne said she would accept our position," Farrell said. "She's been great."

With the new infield at the Rogers Centre, the start of the 2016 season has been a new experience for everyone involved.

Farrell has been working on the grounds crew since 1987 and he's using new tools and mats to stream clumps of dirt and sunflower seeds out of the infield for the first time. There's a new watering regiment too.

But Lewicki feels at home.

"Everyone I work with are probably the nicest people I've met in any job I've ever had and just being around baseball all the time has been a dream come true so far," she said with a smile. "I love it."