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Safety First | fastpitch softball

At Softball is For Girls, February is slotted for health and wellness. We will be bringing you important information about how to keep our young players healthy, in body, mind and spirit all month-long. And of course, we cannot begin to talk about wellness without talking about safety. Fastpitch, is not called FAST pitch, simply…

The Popular Fan Question NEVER Posted. Until Now.

We LOVE our fan questions. And we love our fans. And we do our very best to remain as politically correct as possible. Just yesterday, we received a fan question – one we have received around 30+ times before -that we have never posted, because well…we don’t want our page turned into some platform for…

Fastpitch – Jackie’s Story – Part 2

Yesterday, we had Part 1 of Jackie’s Story. Today is part 2. If you didnt read the first one, here is the link. http://www.sifg2021clone3.flywheelsites.com/2014/12/28/fastpitch-softball-jackies-story/ If you have a story you would like to submit, or if your player does – please email it to us at softballisforgirls@live.com! For weeks in a row, Jackie came to practice.…

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…

You HAVE Been Banned FROM SIFG!?!

Each week, since the beginning of November, we receive at least a dozen emails from folks that are fans of our Facebook page, asking if we have banned them. We have been getting reports that people cannot see our posts, that our page doesn’t show up in the Facebook news-feed (especially on mobile) etc. And…

Growing UP Pitcher!

Just the other day, the indoor batting cages near our home were packed to the gills with young girls learning how to pitch. Fall season has recently ended, and it seems that all the girls on the field want to get in on the action that takes place on the rubber. It’s a beautiful thing.…

What If WE Fail? | Fastpitch Softball

When we first set up our Facebook page and website, we were driven with an immense amount of passion. It was our goal to create a community of like minded folks, whose main interest was to empower all the characters in the fast pitch theater, from and especially the athletes to the parents and coaches…

The Softer Side of Softball

Its a funny thing about softball. One moment you are immersed in the highly competitive and thrilling world of fastpitch softball, and the next you realize that this game is REALLY about a bunch of brave little girls. Here’s the thing about softball that we often forget… These girls out there, they are someone else’s daughter. Each and…

Softball & God

A few Sundays back, we posted a fan question on the our Facebook page about a family new to travel softball, struggling with the concept of playing on Sundays. Many fans weighed in with ideas and thoughts and different ways for this family (and many others) to incorporate their worship onto the field. Some tournament…

My Daughter is a Pitcher

My daughter is a pitcher, and I couldn’t be more proud of her! I have watched the hours and hours that she has put in outside of practice. Out in the yard, hacking it out with a pitching rubber while her dad sat on a bucket. At lessons, being tweaked and challenged, and learning…

Let IT Happen – Girls Softball

We are always on the lookout for new inspiration. As a thinker and writer – any trip to the ball field is filled with plenty of stimulation, some good some bad. So its not surprise that today’s post is courtesy of three simple words said by a proud softball mama while her daughter was at…

Softball Parents & Anger

Spend enough Saturdays at the ballpark, and you are sure to experience the raw gamut of emotions that come from watching your children play ball. Between the parents on the sidelines, the coaches, the officials, the girls in the dugouts, spectators and moms chasing their sticky toddlers around, the ball-field offers a full-sized smorgasbord of human…

Softball Break-Ups

Breaking up is hard to do. It is. Especially in girls fastpitch softball. Often times, when one player – or one team decides to move on for whatever reason, the wounds in the background are being metaphorically licked by the young girls left behind. Say what you want about ‘letting your daughter decide,” or “letting…

You Know Your Daughter Plays Softball WHEN…..

In some ways, its funny – just how much us softball parents/grandparents/coaches and fans are alike. And most of us probably have a love-hate relationship with the game of softball – even though we love it much more than we hate it. The thing is, that our daughters cannot pursue this passion on their own,…