At the end of the journey, parents of athletes end up with a lot of memories, a lot of regrets, a lot of thoughts. One minute you are teaching a kid who cannot even pour a glass of milk how to hit a ball off a tee, and the next you are packing up trophies and watching them fly off into something that resembles adult-hood. What if, instead of waiting until it's over, we asked ourselves - or gave some thought to the hard questions now. Would it change your journey? Would it help? Would it change anything you do now? Would it change the outcome? Would it change the relationships in your … [Read more...]
Funny Things Softball Players Say | Softball Is For Girls
Softball Players say Funny things. Today, we share some of our favorites. We recently had a Facebook post looking for the funny things softball players say. After reading through the over 200 comments, with a couple of nose snort laughs, we realized that to offset some of the stress of being an athletic parent, we needed to share. ENJOY! Player steals second, forces an overthrow and takes third. Coach: Why Did you steal? I didn’t even give you a sign. Player: (first baseman) there was a spider on first. You should probably sit me next inning or go kill it. My all time favorite. … [Read more...]
10 Tips for Fastpitch Softball Players | Softball Is For Girls
The game of fastpitch softball is one of the most fun games to watch, especially when it is our daughters are the fastpitch softball players playing the game. We have always said that it is the perfect combination of an individual and team sport, where the two aspects rely upon the other for ultimate success. So what does this mean? This means that each individual softball player MUST remain accountable to their teammates for their performance on (and off) the field. The game is as much mental as it is physical, and today - we offer 10 tips for your fastpitch softball players to help make … [Read more...]
The Drive to Practice | Softball is For Girls
It was a regular Monday evening, except for that it wasn't. She drove herself to practice today. In her own car. She loaded up her gear in the trunk, hopped in the driver's seat with a quick swish of her pulled up in a pile blonde hair, wearing her black softball pants with the hole in the knee, started the car and drove herself the longest 6 miles of my life to the field where she has been practicing for as long as I can remember. Without me... I stood at the front door a long time, watching her tail lights disappear out of sight, around the corner of our street and into the … [Read more...]
What Matters Most | Softball is For Girls
Yesterday, we reached 170K fans on Facebook. We can remember when we just started all of this - the website, the store, the social media campaigns - never really knowing what it would lead to - tons of naysayers at our backs.. Just knowing that as a family raising 4 daughters, who loved softball - the inequities in community and resources were astounding, we wanted to make a difference. So, Six years ago, Softball is For Girls was launched, with just a few hundred followers and today we are a huge community of people who share the love of the sport, and one another. Our tagline "empowering … [Read more...]
10 Travel Softball Truths
One of the best things about our community is that we get to have the combination of our 'seasoned' players and parents outlooks combined with that of those just starting the journey. And what a JOURNEY it is... Our hope is always that we can help those that come behind us, avoid some of the mistakes that we have made along the way; that those with experience will chime in at just the right time to help those with questions and concerns making the ropes a little less prone to burning the hands. And that our newbies, so full of optimism and excitement and sheer joy and passion will remind … [Read more...]
Respect the Dirt | Softball is For Girls
The school my children attend, recently completed the construction of a new gymnasium at the high school to the tune of 7.2 million dollars. 7.2 MILLION DOLLARS! For a place to run and play sports in. A place to have pep-rallys. Yeah, it's nice...but 7.2 million dollars?????? This sparked our curiosity and we started doing some research to see just how much it takes to build a softball complex. And what we ended up with is a rant that your daughters need to hear about respecting the dirt. Let's start small. Itty bitty, really! A 4 field facility with a building in the center that … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Ensure Your Youth Athlete is Miserable and Fails
Youth athletics. Sigh. What a mess it has become. Dead are the days of recreation athletics and low pressure games where parents are just happy to see their kids outside, playing a game with their friends. Now youth athletes are under soooo much pressure. It's become a job. And unfortunately, parents who claim to not have enough time to do anything in life but work, and chaffeur their children around from one activity to the next, are at the root of the problem. There! We said it. In all our willingness and eagerness to get our children ahead of the game and recruited to college at … [Read more...]
The Fastpitch Players Face!
We have 4 daughters that play softball. And we can tell you, that the summer struggles with the fastpitch players face are REAL! Between the sweat, and dirt, and grit, and more sweat and dirt - plus helmets and facemasks and headbands and long hours on the field - acne is often a side affect of softball. Some girls struggle with it on their face, while others struggle with it on their shoulders, back, buttocks and even thighs from the clothing they have to wear. In this house, we have spent a lot of money on facial products over the years. We have tried the high end, the Proactive Online, … [Read more...]
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