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Does Your Team Look This Good? | Softball Uniforms

It’s February. And while many of you may not be playing softball at the moment, because well….brrrr it’s old outside – it is the time to start thinking about softball uniforms. In fact, you really should have been thinking about them before the holidays. Every spring, there is the big rush. As players move from…

February FACEMASK Awareness Month | softball is for girls

It’s February. And February means that many of us are starting our new seasons, whether it be for recreation leagues, travel and select ball or school ball. (Or all of the above) The smell of fresh-cut grass, and having our hair full of brick-dust from sitting by the dusty fields – morning sunrise and sunsets,…

Meeting Mrs. Judy | softball is for girls

If you’ve spent more than 30 minutes at a softball tournament, then you know first hand that it’s pretty easy to recognize the team camps. Usually set up in the early hours of the day, and dedicated by team colors, these camps move seamlessly from field to field during the day. By midway through the…

An Open Letter to My Daughters 10U Coach

Dear Coach; Although we have not had the pleasure of meeting yet, I wanted to first thank you for taking the time to volunteer to coach the girls softball team. I know firsthand from coaching my son just how much time and effort and the commitment it takes to do such a thing. I am…

An Open Letter to Those NOT Signing ON Signing Day

For those of us in the softball community, softball is a blaze with pictures of smiling senior softball players sitting down with their high school coaches and proud parents – signing their way into their collegiate softball career. In the beginning, getting to THAT coveted place, seems like such a far away dream. So much…

Know Any of these softball players? | fastpitch softball

The beautiful thing about a softball team, is it is comprised up of anywhere from 9-15 girls, all of whom have a special personality that completes the team in one way or another. And chances are you might encounter a softball player with one or more of these traits. Softball teams are a lot…

Softball. In her Own Words.

SIFG will be starting something new for our social media pages! This sport is about the girls, but the reality is that we rarely hear FROM THEM directly. We hear a lot from the parents. So Every Monday, we will be posting video challenge questions. The concept is simple. We give you one simple question…

Why I Don’t Pay for Softball – A FANSHARE

We love our fans. And when one of our fans shared this with us, we just knew we had to share it too. Why I don’t pay for Softball…. The other night someone as me ” Why do you pay so much money for your daughter to play softball?” Well I have a confession to…

Tuesdays Top 10 – Things to do in the OFF Season

Say it in’t so, right? But for many of us – colder weather, snow and other such catastrophes of Mother Nature – are pushing us to what is (or what used to be known as) The OFF SEASON. You know, that time of year where teams dis-band for a little while, and girls everywhere trade…

Opinions are Like….well, you know…and everyone has one.

On any given weekends, there are hundreds of thousands of girls who wake up early enough to see the sun (and they don’t have to), get dressed in itchy softball pants, endure nagging from their parents who unwittingly lose their weekends and end up spending too much money on food and waters and necessities to…

November HELPING Hands

Last year, during the holiday season SIFG was able to connect hundreds of people from all across the United States, through one simple giving post. The concept is simple. If you have outgrown bats, or wrong colored pants, extra softball bows or a never used bat bag cluttering up your space – you can donate…

The Value of School-Ball | Softball is for Girls

For many folks, it is the beginning of another school-ball softball season. This is when families leave their comfortable softball families and venture out to be paired with put simply, “girls that they go to school with.” And then come the questions and complaints, and accusations of politics and dissatisfaction with everything from the level…

Bully Softball Parents

We will start this post with a valuable reminder. The success of another child, in no way takes away, hinders, or diminishes the success of your child. There is enough room in this world for everyone to succeed. As someone who has been immersed in this fast-pitch life for a long time, I tend to…

Play 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…

10 Reasons WHY you Didn’t Make the Team

Yesterday, we offered what we hope is empowering advice for all the girls trying out who may not have made their travel team! Again, keep trying. If you love the sport, then by all means – don’t give up. So you didn’t make the team. You can read the article right here…. As parents, we like…