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The Heart and Soul of Fastpitch Softball

If you are a fan of our facebook page, it is obvious that fastpitch softball reaches a ton of girls from all over the country, who play at all levels of the game. On any given Saturday, a fan of ours is playing anything from a 7 game guarantee select ball tournament 2 states away…

9 Tips for Choosing a Great Softball Private Instructor

Guest post by Ken Krause, Life in the Fastpitch Lane So, you’ve decided your softball player could use a little extra help to reach her goals, and have decided to bring her to a private instructor. That’s the good news. Now comes the hard part – choosing the right one. You’re about to make a…

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…

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…

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…

Tips for Coaching YOUNG Softball TEAMS

It won’t be long, and the cool chilly mornings will give way to lovely, breezy afternoons. As Rec departments and travel leagues across the country look forward to the upcoming thaw, there are tons of NEW coaches, and NEW players looking to tackle the brick-dust for the first time. Most often, a coach is born…

It’s Softball, It’s NOT Personal

Today, fast-pitch travel softball has reached far and wide. Millions of girls play, there are millions of teams, coaches, parents, fans, umpires, organizations and venues that cater to this sport we all know and love. It has become very competitive, which is a GOOD thing for our daughters. With better competition – they are enabled…

The Human Side of Girls Softball

A few days ago, we had a coach write in to us, torn about the fact that one of his players failed a drug test at her school and was removed from the softball team. Should he do the same thing, and remove this girl – one who had been playing with him for three…

Words In Fastpitch!

On our Facebook page, we do a twice weekly ONE WORD post. In these posts, fans are encouraged to describe their teams, their teammates, coaches, their offense, their coaches, their catchers or pitchers etc. using just ONE WORD. Believe it or not, we at SIFG read every single one of these posts, and we are thoroughly…

Softball Player Responsibilities

Get your HOLIDAY SHOPPING DONE WITH SIFG GIFTS and Shirts! You play softball, right? Your mama and daddy don’t play. YOU PLAY! If so – then chances are your parents have taken on a lot of the responsibility to ensure that you can play. Driving you to practice, buying your equipment, showing up at games,…

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…

If Only I Could PITCH Harder

Working with several fast pitch pitchers from the age of 10 to 15, the desire to pitch harder is always one of the first things that girls starting out are concerned with. You watch college softball, and after every pitch, you see the MPH in the bottom right hand corner of the screen and wish…

Reasons You Should Encourage Your daughter to Play Softball

This is a fastpitch softball blog. Obviously, those of us working behind the scenes love the sport, and am thoroughly impressed with the gals who give their all on the field to make three outs, and score a run. Fastpitch is an intense competitive venue, and from the sounds that resonate from the dug outs,…

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…

SHOUT OUT to Fastpitch Pitchers

My daughters pitch. I have spent endless time watching them throw that stupid, relentless optic yellow (although I still think its green) ball, trying to accurately hit what seems like a tiny target, to hear an umpire yell, “Strike!” For this reason, I love those umps that can get into the spirit of the game,…