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…

Read More

Quitting the Softball Team!

So you want to quit your team? Things just aren’t working out like you had hoped they would. Maybe you were made to think one thing, and another ‘thing’ happened. Maybe the coach turned out to be a real turd, or some of the parents are mean and cold-hearted, or there was too much drama,…

Read More

Why Fix What’s NOT Broken?

For many people across the country, school ball is in full swing. The vast majority of high schools and middle schools with softball teams play ‘school ball’ during the spring. And now the SIFG ‘Ask the Coach” and Facebook questions tend to be from parents concerned about everything from the school ball coaches to whether…

Read More

One GREAT SOFTBALL Idea! SCORE-STIX

Traveling around to softball tournaments, you learn the ropes pretty quickly. By your second tournament you realize that packing extra toilet paper is a GREAT idea, that having a shade tent makes passing the hours at the field during the summer heat more enjoyable, and that a rolling wagon is well worth the $65. Still,…

Read More

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…

Read More

Softball and Social Media

Last night, on the blog – the parent in SIFG scrolled through the teenage world of social media and literally felt the need to take a shower afterwards.  A long, hot shower. Oh, the things that pop up on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterrest, Ask.fm, Twitter, and every other little corner of the internets that kids and…

Read More

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…

Read More