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Remember Your WHY! | Softball is For Girls
Love the game with all your heart, REMEMBER your why and how it felt at the start.
Read MoreFastpitch Softball Translator
What we say, and what we mean are often two entirely different things. In our efforts to remain politically correct, it becomes important for coaches, fans, and parents to read between the lines – especially with all the tryouts and the upside-down basket turnover of players and teams that are quickly approaching as summer season…
Read MoreOutside the Foul Lines
Obviously, we talk a lot about hitting stances, and proper mechanics and recruiting and winning and losing and all the fun and games and stress and excitement that comes along with playing fastpitch softball. We don’t care, have never cared what level of ball you play. That is not our journey. We have the same…
Read MoreThe 5 Types of EYEBLACK Wearing Softball Players | Softball is For Girls
The “I fell in a wet cow patty and got literal sh*t all over my face” eyeblack wearer. This girl just doesn’t know when to stop and she smears it all over her face with such random abandon that it honestly looks like she fell face first into the wettest pile of cow poo she could find
Read MoreThe Life of a Pitcher | Softball is For Girls
When they show up on the field, any given Saturday With butterflies and excitement, they are ready to play. They take a look at the circle, and inspect the mound Where the deep trenches from those who came before them are found. They warm up their snaps, their grips and their throws And say a…
Read MoreHow Not to Be a Sucky Softball Coach | Softball Is For Girls
Coaching. It’s a hard gig and can be a cocktail for disaster. Between parents, and dealing with players, and trying to make decisions for the greater good of all, that will certainly not be agreed upon by everyone involved – being a softball coach is not an easy feat. So first… We want to thank…
Read MoreHow Not to Suck at Being a Softball Parent | Softball is For Girls
It’s no secret that there are a lot of rules for softball parents. For parents of any athlete in general. Apparently, we are supposed to sit down (not too close to our kid), relax, fork over money and our kids and be quiet and just smile ever so sweetly and only say, “I love to…
Read MoreTips for Keeping Fastpitch Softball Affordable
Travel youth sports are expensive! Today – some tips to help you save money. Got any tips that have saved your family and your team some dough? We would love for you to share them!
Read MoreAn Open Letter to All The Upcoming Softball Seniors | Softball is for Girls
You have walked in the places of the many others that came before you, and you will leave foot steps for others to come behind you. Maybe their names, or maybe your name lingers on a banner somewhere at the field still. Either way, be mindful of what kind of footprints you leave. (Read that sentence again!) BE MIND OF WHAT FOOTPRINTS YOU LEAVE BEHIND! Consider your legacy to your school program, to the people coming behind you.
Read MoreIs Your Team Predictable?
So once upon a time, 100 years ago, ok it’s really about 30 years ago ( wow, writing this I realize it may as well be 100 years ago), I played on a really good travel ball team. We weren’t the best there was but we were really good. In fact, we should have won…
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Read MoreMy Daughter Is a Headcase | Softball Is For Girls
Because softball….and because life….Well, they are both games of errors and mistakes. We win some, we lose some. We make mistakes, we drop balls, we walk people, we overthrow, we miss the mark of perfection – countless times. On the field and off.
Read MoreCry me a River, Build a Bridge – Get Over it!
You ever have one of those days, where you almost wished you saved your gas and money and gate fee and just stayed home doing laundry instead of going to watch your daughters team play? Yea. Well. That was me last night, watching my daughters high school team play. We got DRILLED. And when I…
Read MoreHow DARE YOU? Softball girls
Look, we try to look on the bright side of things as much as humanly possible here. We like to be some read-worthy, and real, and try to make sure that we are all counting our blessings most of all. But let’s face it. We are dealing with children here. Whether they are 8 or…
Read MorePlay 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…
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