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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…

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…

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…

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.…

Fan Question Friday – ‘Softball is For Girls’ Answers

SHIRT SALE GOING ON NOW! Many Designs JUST $16! On any given day, SIFG receives an overwhelming amount of emails with fan questions, fan-shares and other awesome things related to softball! We love them – so keep them coming. We typically post them to the group and let the…

6 LESSONS For Softball Parents/Players/Coaches FROM THE WCWS!

Chances are high, you’ve been watching the WCWS, cheering on your favorite team and thoroughly enjoying the tons of airtime (Thank YOU ESPN), and energy that fast-pitch brings to this world. Wow! What an amazing sport. We also hope that you noticed a few other things along the way. Let’s preface this by saying that…

Your Life on Softball!

What are YOUR weekends made of? Pop Up Tents, and Dollars spent. Alarm CLOCKS and stinky SOCKS! Cracking bats and friendly chats. Flip flop Tans, and excited fans. Cheering crowds and watching clouds. Fold up chairs and moments shared. Long nights, hot days! Portable heaters and RAIN delays! Cooler FOOD and fingers crossed. Losses and…

So You’ve Never Hit a Home Run

Homeruns! Can you just imagine what Kaylee Puailoa felt after she hit her walk off, two run bomb over the fence – with two strikes and two outs, to cinch her teams place in the WCWS? That’s a moment she will never forget, and a moment that many players dream of having. It seems when…

To the Girl that Doesn’t Believe in Herself

To the Girl that Doesn’t Believe in Herself, We just want you to know how amazing you are. We see you struggle. We see your hang your shoulders, and your heads, and catch the glisten of tears that roll out of your eyes, before you wipe them away in the hopes that no one noticed…

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,…

To Wear a Uniform

Sometimes at the strangest places, insight can hit! Last week, standing at the Fort Benning Infantry museum, watching soldier after soldier exit the building in their uniforms – matching browns and boots and caps – I realized the sheer, amazing power and blessing that it is to adorn a uniform. Sure, these young men were…

Softball Players Prayer

SIFG, wanted to share with you the “Softball Players Prayer, written by us! ” If through the softball field, you are to set an example (whether coach, parent, fan or player) we HOPE that its a good one! The SOFTBALL PLAYERS PRAYER God, Allow me to play my best, but with integrity. Allow competition to make…

The Softball Moms Prayer | Softball is for Girls

Sit back and listen, and you will see a lot of folded hands, and prayers going up at the ballfield. Whether for a hitting slump to end, the hopeful prayer that an injured player is not too injured, that the rain will not come and ruin a tournament mid-day along with a million others things.…

17 Inches…. | Softball is For Girls

We have been doing this youth softball thing for a long time now. And it doesnt matter whether you have a child that plays softball, lacrosse, baseball – one who plays in the band, or who is a spelling bee champion. This post applies. (This is gratefully shared by the Clinton Hitters Club from Facebook) …

She Thinks We’re Just Playing Softball | softball is for girls

**NEW** CHECK OUT THE BRAND NEW SHIRTS UP AT THE STORE I can remember the unveiling. Cutting open a cake many many years ago, revealing a robust pink cake. It’s a girl. I was having a girl. I honestly didn’t know what to think. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t disappointed. Just terrified.…