Six Simple WORDS Your Softball Player NEEDS to Hear

What SIX SIMPLE WORDS DOES YOUR LITTLE DIAMOND DIVA REALLY NEED TO HEAR? On the SIFG Facebook page, we are inundated with questions and rants from parents and even from players, about the problem with parents on the field.  Let’s be honest!  None of us are ALWAYS  flawless spectators.  We all, as adults get emotional,…

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6 Things to Remember this Saturday | Softball is For Girls

It’s Friday night. If you are playing this weekend, that means you have checked the weather a zillion times, have ran to the store, loading up on waters and snacks for the day, checked the weather again, made sure the uniform was somewhere you could find it in the wee hours of dawn when its…

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My Daughter is Perfectly Average | Softball is for Girls

ALL POSITION SHIRTS ARE BACK UP AT THE STORE FOR A LIMITED TIME!  1st, 2nd, 3rd, SHORTSTOP, catcher, pitcher, outfielder, slapper, hitter! They are all UP!              When it all started out, I have to admit I thought my daughter was a super star. Like seriously the best ball player…

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She’s a Shortstop Dangit! | Softball is for girls

Free Shipping ALL Weekend LONG! Use Code Freeship at www.store.softballisforgirls.com Let’s just speak hypothetical for a moment. Your daughter is a junior in High School and the head coach of (insert any of the best SEC Division 1 schools names here) watchers her play. Your daughter played a great game at short stop. After the…

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Why I Don’t Pay for Softball – A FANSHARE

We love our fans. And when one of our fans shared this with us, we just knew we had to share it too.  Why I don’t pay for Softball…. The other night someone as me ” Why do you pay so much money for your daughter to play softball?” Well I have a confession to…

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Opinions are Like….well, you know…and everyone has one.

On any given weekends, there are hundreds of thousands of girls who wake up early enough to see the sun (and they don’t have to), get dressed in itchy softball pants, endure nagging from their parents who unwittingly lose their weekends and end up spending too much money on food and waters and necessities to…

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Handcuffed | Fastpitch Softball

There’s an interesting thing going on in girls fast-pitch today, that seems to be a double edged sword for coaches, parents and players alike. Even so, if you sit back with an open mind and truly look at the dynamic within a team – you will see that there is a lot of handcuffing going…

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Playing Fastpitch with Fear

If you have played fast-pitch long enough(or have a daughter that does) you should realize that softball is largely a game of failures. While the ULTIMATE goal, may be perfection – a game with absolutely no errors, where no batter strikes out or gets thrown out, where pitchers don’t walk a single batter, or ever…

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Play Softball Anyway | fastpitch softball

The softball world often takes on a life of its own. Its full of trials and tribulations, friends and families, disappointments and joys. Often, at SIFG we say that coaching softball, that parenting softball players, that playing softball is not really about the sport – but about LIFE itself. So many of the most important…

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A Fan Question & an Unpopular Answer

We receive hundreds of fan questions per week. Mostly, we post them to our facebook page in the hopes that our compassionate, experienced and amazing fan base of over 90K FANS will answer them considerately and honestly. Every once in a while, we get fan questions that truly ignite a lot of feelings. Just last…

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10 Questions to Ask Your Softball Players

Softball is the perfect balance of an individual and team sport. No one person can be successful alone, and every individual has a job to do to make it work. Largely, when it comes to team dynamics and culture – it is the adults (parents and coaches) who have the most input. They are the…

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Love to Watch YOU Play!

It’s March. It’s Spring. This.  Is.  Such. A. Beautiful.  Thing. And that means that college softball has started, school-ball in many parts of the country has commenced and Rec and travel teams are either preparing to….or already taking the field. You can almost smell new uniforms void of season old eye-black, and knee holes at the…

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The Top 6 Stability Exercises for Overhead Athletes

Big Thank YOU to Dr. Eric Dixon, for this weeks health and wellness fastpitch article! The Top 6 Stability Exercises for Overhead Athletes By Dr. Eric Dixon, DC, MS, NSCA-CPT www.sportchiroplus.com In the game of softball, it’s becoming more and more trendy to try to gain strength and power at a young age. The parents…

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Against the Odds –

For our first player/team of the week featured player, we are actually getting a little personal. Thankfully, our own children don’t read the website, or else we would certainly be in trouble for writing about one of our own daughters. Or for writing about ONLY one of our own daughters. You get it, its lose-lose…

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Fastpitch Softball – Jackie’s Story Part 1

When you show up on a Sunday afternoon to practice on a field that you have reserved in a town where field space is limited, there is nothing more irritating than finding people playing on it when you get there. The hope always is that the folks out there will see a large team edging…

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