Coach’s Corner
10 Reasons WHY you Didn’t Make the Team
Yesterday, we offered what we hope is empowering advice for all the girls trying out who may not have made their travel team! Again, keep trying. If you love the sport, then by all means – don’t give up. So you didn’t make the team. You can read the article right here…. As parents, we like…
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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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A Letter to My Softball TEAM at the End of the Season
A Letter to My Softball Team at the End of the Season: It is at this time every year, when the grass on the softball fields begins to brown from too much summer heat and the stains on your uniform are no longer fazed by your moms Iron Out, that I am able to look…
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Traits of a Great Softball Coach | Softball is For Girls
The fastpitch softball community has been blessed with an immense amount of empowering, passionate softball coaches that give a large amount of their time to help the hundreds of thousands of girls out there who play ball, take their game to the next level. Sure, there are a few ‘rotten apples’ out there but largely…
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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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Super Heroes Wear Facemasks
When Mizzou’s pitcher Finucane, took a line drive to the face Sunday during super regionals – we immediately put up prayer requests. Personally, as a parent to TWO high school aged pitchers, seeing this worst nightmare actually come true, sent chills down our spine, as we sure it did to every single parent and player.…
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The Other Part of Commitment in TRAVEL BALL
**NOTE** This is a discussion in regard to TRAVEL/SELECT/ (or whatever its called in your area) teams from about second year 12U onward…. not developmental or recreational or very young teams or leagues. At Softball is For Girls, we talk a lot about commitment in travel ball. There are always questions from parents (and players)…
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Season Opener Parent Meeting | Fastpitch Softball
It’s that time of year again. Even before the first ripe sprigs of grass pop out, softball season is upon us. (Hallelujah) The chilly days and mounds of snow for some of you will give way shortly to perhaps, the most beautiful sports season known to wo-man! 🙂 With the onset of softball season, comes…
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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.…
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My Softball Player is BETTER than YOURS is!
“I’ll be honest. My softball playing beast of daughter is BETTER than yours is. She hits better, fields better, runs better, works harder, makes fewer errors and even has a better attitude than your daughter does. She is better.” How would you feel if a parent (or coach) just outright said that to you? Chances…
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Why Fix What’s NOT Broken?
For many people across the country, school ball is in full swing. The vast majority of high schools and middle schools with softball teams play ‘school ball’ during the spring. And now the SIFG ‘Ask the Coach” and Facebook questions tend to be from parents concerned about everything from the school ball coaches to whether…
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Perks to Being a Pick Up Player
Each year, as softball seasons winds down and back up again, girls and parents are scrambling and hunting for the perfect team to call their own, or settling back into comfortable routines with the team they have been playing on for years now. As your daughter gets older, one thing that you may want to…
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One GREAT SOFTBALL Idea! SCORE-STIX
Traveling around to softball tournaments, you learn the ropes pretty quickly. By your second tournament you realize that packing extra toilet paper is a GREAT idea, that having a shade tent makes passing the hours at the field during the summer heat more enjoyable, and that a rolling wagon is well worth the $65. Still,…
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Fundraising for Softball – Part 1
It’s that time again. The onset of a new season is upon us. This means two things. Teams and parents are looking for money to support their daughters passion AND parents are frantically clinging to their pocketbooks. Softball is an expensive sport, there is no doubt. With so many softball fundraising options, it can be…
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What Happened to My Softball Player?
Just last week, we received a fan question on our “Ask the Coach,” forum. And it was a good one. One, that each of us as parents of athletes have asked ourselves from time to time. For years, (or months) our daughter was amazing, and then suddenly – one day, she seems more like a…
