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Know Any of these softball players? | fastpitch softball

The beautiful thing about a softball team, is it is comprised up of anywhere from 9-15 girls, all of whom have a special personality that completes the team in one way or another. And chances are you might encounter a softball player with one or more of these traits. Softball teams are a lot…

Softball. In her Own Words.

SIFG will be starting something new for our social media pages! This sport is about the girls, but the reality is that we rarely hear FROM THEM directly. We hear a lot from the parents. So Every Monday, we will be posting video challenge questions. The concept is simple. We give you one simple question…

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…

Twas the Night Before Christmas

Twas the Night Before Christmas, when all through the fields, Not a player was present, no bats they did wield. At home stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hopes that new batting gloves’ would soon be in there. The kiddos were snuggled all snug in their beds With visions of double…

Tuesdays Top 10 – Things to do in the OFF Season

Say it in’t so, right? But for many of us – colder weather, snow and other such catastrophes of Mother Nature – are pushing us to what is (or what used to be known as) The OFF SEASON. You know, that time of year where teams dis-band for a little while, and girls everywhere trade…

She Laced up Her Cleats….

There was nothing but silence, when immediately after her last high school game, the words, “ I am not playing anymore. I’m done. It’s over,It’s too late for me now” cascaded through the kitchen like a roll of distant thunder. Just like that – she threw her cleats and batbag into the closet, took of…

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…

Thoughts for Thursday | softball

Imagine this. You take a beautiful picture of your children that you absolutely love – playing softball (and baseball), share it with Softball is For Girls and ask, excited to share your pride and joy with the world, if they will post it up on their page. They share it for the world (or at…

November HELPING Hands

Last year, during the holiday season SIFG was able to connect hundreds of people from all across the United States, through one simple giving post. The concept is simple. If you have outgrown bats, or wrong colored pants, extra softball bows or a never used bat bag cluttering up your space – you can donate…

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…

The Last Game

Help us Paint the Field PINK this OCTOBER with OUR BREAST CANCER Awareness Shirts. Available with or WITHOUT Numbers It’s chilly as I take my seat on the clinky metal bleachers, far enough away from home plate but close enough to get a perfect view of the pitcher’s mound, to watch my daughters game. It…

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…

The Value of School-Ball | Softball is for Girls

For many folks, it is the beginning of another school-ball softball season. This is when families leave their comfortable softball families and venture out to be paired with put simply, “girls that they go to school with.” And then come the questions and complaints, and accusations of politics and dissatisfaction with everything from the level…

Bully Softball Parents

We will start this post with a valuable reminder. The success of another child, in no way takes away, hinders, or diminishes the success of your child. There is enough room in this world for everyone to succeed. As someone who has been immersed in this fast-pitch life for a long time, I tend to…

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…