SOFTBALL INSPIRATION &EMPOWERMENT
Softball Lessons From Team USA
Last weekend, we attended the 2-day TEAM USA fastpitch camp in Chattanooga. It’s an amazing, surreal thing for young players to meet their athletic idols, to see them interact and learn from the girls that they watch play the game they love on television. To be face to face with the best of the best!…
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Softball Wars
Running a Facebook page, we hear from parents, fans, coaches, umpires and players that color the entire gambit of softball players. We have the 8U and 12U Rec ball players, who play for a few short months and have one game per week. We also have the girls that practice several times a week, put…
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My Daughter Plays Outfield
You or your daughter is an outfielder. Congratulations to you! That means that your daughter is likely extremely athletic, quick, has an amazing glove, and has proven herself to be quite the hustler. After all, how many other positions on the field are required to cover such a vast amount of green space. There’s like 5…
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Softball in the Olympics
Jennie Finch, who has undoubtedly changed the face of softball FOREVER (WE LOVE YOU JENNIE FINCH), is now hoping to use her prowess (and beauty and talent) to hopefully convince the International Olympic Committee to get softball back in the Olympics. The IOC, who has forever come across an elusive and quite snobby group (with a…
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Daddy Ball Softball
We, at SIFG, hear a lot of complaints, rants and annoyances in relation to the perception that many competitive teams today are playing “Daddy Ball Softball!!” (This term by the way is inter-changeable with Mommy-Ball, because we KNOW lots of moms coach too!) In fact, recently we had a parent call on us to ask…
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Fastpitch Players – It’s Not Their Size You Should Worry About
Last week on our Facebook page – we posted a home plate meeting picture. Each coach had brought two girls from his team to the plate, and it certainly appeared – from the outside looking in, that there must have been a mix up in the age groups. Funny thing was, so many folks commented…
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The Duality of a Softball Chick
If you keep up with the Softball is For Girls Facebook page – (which you should) you will notice that we receive hundreds of pictures of girls of all ages, playing softball. We, at SIFG love these pictures – and are completely in love with our fans. Recently, we received two pictures – which have…
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It Won’t Be Long – And Fastpitch will Be Over
It won’t be long. Before your daughter outgrows her cleats, weekends are spent at home instead of at ball fields, boys replace the love of the game, straightened hair and roller skating becomes more important than skidding across brick dust and busted up knees. My advice, take it all in. Fastpitch is a way of…
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Making the Team – School Ball Softball
Here in Georgia, thousands of girls are gearing up for ‘school ball’ tryouts and workouts. Each girl has a dream, to make the coveted school ball team, win over the coach and adorn a jersey in their schools colors. It’s a beautiful dream, one which can motivate the average player to step up her game, which…
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Do YOU Have the WANT?
And then, there was a 14-year-old girl. Shunned from making her middle school’s softball team because she didn’t have the ‘right’ last name, and too poor to take some upscale pitching lessons at one of the many sports centers scattered across her hometown. So for years, it has been just her and her daddy, using…
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Do You Have The Want?
Softball. It’s Really About the Girls
My daughters have been playing softball for many years now. We encourage them to play, coach their teams, and take on the added financial stresses and time consumption associated with involving children in sports for one reason. To offer a life environment to our children that fosters the healthiest growth. Playing sports, being involved with…
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The Many Faces of a Fastpitch Player
On of the most amazing things about the millions of girls who play softball, is that they have so many different faces. Last fall, the girls on our team were a hodge podge of talent, that completely transferred from the field to their lives. The short stop could sing. One of the pitchers played the…
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Fastpitch. Not Just a Game
I have met a lot of girls who play fastpitch. It seems to me, that nearly every girl I meet, expereinces some sort of emotional high when they are standing on the field. Maybe its the dirt. Or maybe its the generalized excuse of the game that allows girls to get aggressive and mean for…
