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5 Ways to Ensure Your Youth Athlete is Miserable and Fails

Youth athletics. Sigh. What a mess it has become. Dead are the days of recreation athletics and low pressure games where parents are just happy to see their kids outside, playing a game with their friends. Now youth athletes are under soooo much pressure. It’s become a job. And unfortunately, parents who claim to not…

We lost a softball game, and it’s My FAULT!

One of the things we love about social media is that we get to connect with so many awesome fastpitch softball fans. On Instagram, we get to connect with the girls – your daughters – the girls playing the game. DAILY, we get tons of messages, tags and DM’s (some of them asking what to…

REAL College Recruiting Tips

At SIFG, we follow a lot of folks in the industry on social media. Recently, we came across Cheri Naudin with Collegiate Sports Advocate and thoroughly enjoyed a series of posts and social media posts and tweets that she posted in regard to recruiting. Having personally been through the recruiting process with our own kid,…

6 Things That Make a Great Fastpitch Catcher? Besides a Great Arm!

When we think of fastpitch catchers we often think of a powerful arm. A girl who can sit behind the dish, and from her knees – throw a ‘rope’ from her knees to second base (or first or third) that basically hits her infielder in the glove to get the out! Yes, a good arm…

The Softball Sock | Softball is For Girls

It occurred to me today, as I found a disgusting, crusty rolled up ball of a sock under a pillow on my daughters bed – that softball, and socks in general have made me made me lose my mind. Why? Because I sniffed it. I actually sniffed it. I don’t know, maybe to see if…

Cry me a River, Build a Bridge – Get Over it!

You ever have one of those days, where you almost wished you saved your gas and money and gate fee and just stayed home doing laundry instead of going to watch your daughters team play? Yea. Well. That was me last night, watching my daughters high school team play. We got DRILLED. And when I…

Tuesdays Top 10 Plays | Softball is for Girls

Cue Sports Center Music….. (now that will be stuck in your head all day!) If you spend enough time at the fast-pitch softball fields, then you KNOW that there are some amazingly awesome plays being made out there on the dirt and grass of America’s softball fields. Some, no matter who makes them – no…

So Much for Saturdays…

So much for Saturdays spent mending the yard, for sleeping in late after working so hard. So much for the laundry, or scrubbing the car – the shopping, the cleaning must wait by far. So much for the weekend spent mowing the lawn, this weekend it seems the weeds won’t get gone. So much for…

Fastpitch FRIDAY – SIFG Favorite THINGS!

Gosh! Have you ever just looked online at all the amazing things there are for fastpitch players, coaches and fans? Well, we have – and it’s funny how badly you can start to covet something fastpitch softball related. Or you see something at the field that someone else has, and you’re trying to take secret…

Reserve Your Spot

RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY! A large part of us being a small, family run business means we like to reach out, help and work with others like us. We all have to start somewhere, right? As you may know, we do not typically allow advertising on our media outlets — simply put because we have…

HELP Wanted! |Softball Parents

HELP WANTED WEDNESDAY! Yep. It’s us again. And this morning, we are throwing UP our hands and placing our very first classified ad in the hopes that there is power in numbers, and that softball parents united can help us avoid reaching for the red solo cups we keep hidden in our coolers due to…

Tuesdays Top 10 – 12 Tips for Softball PLAYERS

So you are a softball player? Congratulations! This means you are a lucky girl, and it means that the people in your family have set aside lots of their own time, and hard-earned money, to ensure that you get to pursue something you LOVE! 12 Tips for softball players…. And they do, happily…willingly… this because…

Who is She Playing Softball For?

I remember before my kids were born, someone told me having children was like living with your heart outside your body. But it’s much more than that. Having a child, means that the very wind beneath your wings, the breath from your lungs, the blood from your heart and soul – can at any moment…

A Bully Among Us… | Softball is For Girls

One of this generations newest platforms, is to protect our children from bullies. The truth is that bullies, have always existed. When you and I were young, there were bullies who usually traumatized their peers privately all the while smiling and wooing the adults in their presence. Speaking up, was not really an option then.…

Softball is For Girls Turns 5

Five years ago today, SIFG launched its Facebook page and published its first post. At the time, we had 6 – yes 6 fans on Facebook, and we were related to most of them. The goal then…which is still the goal now, was to create a community of like-minded, fastpitch enthusiast families, from all levels…