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HELP Wanted! |Softball Parents

HELP WANTED WEDNESDAY! Yep. It’s us again. And this morning, we are throwing UP our hands and placing our very first classified ad in the hopes that there is power in numbers, and that softball parents united can help us avoid reaching for the red solo cups we keep hidden in our coolers due to…

Sabotage Your Kids, Much? Sports Parenting

We love parents…but let’s be honest, we know that at any given time and of us can be an unreasonable, pain in the a$$. Sports parenting is not easy! Not because we are bad people, but because we love our kiddos, right? And we hate to see them hurt or upset, right? They say the…

Team CAPTAIN of the Week!

We love featuring amazing players at Softball is For Girls! Throughout our years on the ballfield, we have pretty much seen it all. But one player who we have been lucky enough to actually see in action, and play with locally – has truly touched our hearts season after season. Her name is Kaitlynn. We…

Softball Recruiting for Dummies… | Softball is For Girls

Softball Recruiting. The word in and of itself is one that seems to be presenting itself earlier and earlier in the fastpitch circuit. When you hear about 8th graders verballing to D1 schools, it causes a sense of urgency among parents that start feeling like if they do not do something RIGHT NOW, they will…

When My Daughter Pitches | Softball is For Girls

Being the parent of a pitcher is not for the faint at heart. And since so many enjoyed the inside dialogue of When My Daughter is Up To Bat, we thought we would share this gem…. Warning….there may be some foul language involved in this post. Oh My God, they are putting her in. It’s…

6 Things to Remember this Saturday | Softball is For Girls

It’s Friday night. If you are playing this weekend, that means you have checked the weather a zillion times, have ran to the store, loading up on waters and snacks for the day, checked the weather again, made sure the uniform was somewhere you could find it in the wee hours of dawn when its…

My Daughter is Perfectly Average | Softball is for Girls

ALL POSITION SHIRTS ARE BACK UP AT THE STORE FOR A LIMITED TIME! 1st, 2nd, 3rd, SHORTSTOP, catcher, pitcher, outfielder, slapper, hitter! They are all UP! When it all started out, I have to admit I thought my daughter was a super star. Like seriously the best ball player…

Thoughts for Thursday! The Fastpitch BUSINESS! |softball is for girls

The softball world as we know it has spiraled from sandlot games and tube socks on Saturday to a full-scale arena where words like ‘recruiting’ and ‘college’ are being baited into the minds of parents with girls as young as 10 and 12 years old. Think about that for a minute. 10 and 12 years…

To You It Looks Like Just Dirt….| Softball is For Girls

To you this may simply look like a jar of dirt. But what you don’t know, is that inside this jar lies a fragment of dirt from nearly every field you have played on since I first realized your passion for this game. By now, I could have filled up 80 jars of dirt, so…

An Open Letter From the Coaches Wife….

I am the coaches wife, and have been for many years. We have seen so many players come and go,and cross through out paths – and each one of them, from those way back in 6U have had something to teach me and my husband. I have also seen and met all sorts of parents.…

If you Give a Girl a Softball….

If you give a girl a softball, she will want a bat to go with it. You’ll buy her the best bat you can find, and then she will probably want a bucket of balls and a glove and some cleats too. (and maybe a bow) When she realizes she cannot carry all these things…

Accountabili-TEE

Sat at hitting lessons the other night, watching softball player after softball player of all ages, walk into the gym, bat in hand ready to get in some cage time with a hitting instructor for $45 per half hour session. Parents eagerly paying half a weeks grocery money (myself included) in order to improve their…

She’s a Shortstop Dangit! | Softball is for girls

Free Shipping ALL Weekend LONG! Use Code Freeship at www.store.softballisforgirls.com Let’s just speak hypothetical for a moment. Your daughter is a junior in High School and the head coach of (insert any of the best SEC Division 1 schools names here) watchers her play. Your daughter played a great game at short stop. After the…

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.…

Why I Wish She Wore a Facemask – A fanshare

My name is Zoe, and I am 16 year old fastpitch player. I am a power hitter. I normally hit in the 3-5 spot, because my coaches pretty much trust me to hit the ball HARD, and move runners around. When I am not hitting, I play catcher and as you may know, I wear…