The youth softball community hub is where softball coaches, parents and athletes post pics, photos and videos, share youth softball news, and start discussions. It’s also where Weplay highlights youth softball teams and youth softball drills.
  • Youth Softball - Softball History Lesson
  • Youth Softball - Help Your Team
  • Youth Softball - Award Your Coach!
  • Youth Softball - Jennie Stops By
  • Youth Softball - Ask. Answer. Explore.
Youth Softball - Softball History Lesson

Softball History Lesson

Check out the ASA group and learn about the rich history of softball and the National Softball Hall of Fame!

Youth Softball - Help Your Team

Help Your Team

All-star and travel teams are gearing up, so keep on top of your game with the softball Skills & Drills Library!

Youth Softball - Award Your Coach!

Award Your Coach!

Great coaches deserve recognition and support from the team too.

Nominate your coach for Weplay's Coach of the Week!

Youth Softball - Jennie Stops By

Jennie Stops By

Keep up with Jennie Finch's blog as she starts her season with the Chicago Bandits, tries out for team USA and visits the Weplay office!

Youth Softball - Ask. Answer. Explore.

Ask. Answer. Explore.

Ask your questions and help fellow softballers by answering theirs on Weplay's Answers.

Softball News

  • Jennie Finch

    I Believe in Magic!

    Posted June 25, 2009 by Jennie Finch
    Last night was a good night for the Bandits! ;) I love feeling accomplished!

    I bet the ladies of the U12 Indiana Magic do as well!  Congrats girls, you're my pick for Finch's Favorite this week.

    This fast pitch travel team from the Lafayette area has a great team site on Weplay.  I'm impressed by the number of parents, coaches and fans who seem to be extremely involved with the team. Reminds me of my parents (and entire family for that matter).  It truly takes a village to help keep you going while traveling all over for these very competitive fast pitch games.

    I also enjoyed checking out the 731 photos highlighted in their gallery!!  Sharing memories is what Weplay is all about.

    So congrats ladies.  I'll be sending you an autographed team photo soon.  

    Dream and Believe #27

    P.S.
    Love your team description:

    "We are a Girls Fast Pitch Travel Softball Team DEDICATED TO EACH OTHER and to the great game of softball."  
    Close
  • Jennie Finch

    Southern Explosion knows how to make Adjustments!!

    Posted June 18, 2009 by Jennie Finch
    Rough one for the Bandits last night.  We should have pulled it off!  But just when I found myself lost in frustration late yesterday night, I came across the Southern Explosion 12U Blue group on Weplay.  Their team motto is definitely the type of motivation I needed to bounce back and get ready for game two against the Force tonight:

    "Winners Don't Make Excuses, They Make Adjustments!!"

    You girls are so right!  I hate to lose, but I know there are two things I can control each day:  My attitude and my effort.  So thanks ladies for helping me keep things in perspective.

    But the SE Blue have done more than follow a great motto all season!  With a jam packed roster that features almost no benchwarmers and 300 photos in your gallery, you all are definitely my pick for Finch's Favorite this week.  

    Good luck at the WFC State Championships next weekend.  Play your hearts out and enjoy the game.  Every season we play this amazing game is a gift.

    Believing,

    #27

    Also, if you didn't know already, you have 3 more weeks to win an "Annual Salute to Women in Sports Awards" fan pass. Visit:
    WomensSportsFoundation.org & click "VIP FAN PASS"
    Close
  • Jennie Finch

    Perfect, Only from HIM!

    Posted June 17, 2009 by Jennie Finch








    It was perfection for us (The Bandits) defensively tonight! What a night! A lot of fun! So much fun, not going to be shy about it! Its been a long couple of months getting back. Rachel Folden and I were on the same the page, groovin, she called a great game! It was so much fun to be out there competing with my teammates, Go Bandits!


    I have to give all the glory to Him, the only true perfection I know. You, Jesus! Thank you! By your grace and only by your grace! The Valleys and the Mountain Tops you are always there at work, moving and shaking! Thank you Lord for your perfect timing in all things. We will keep looking to You through it all and in all!

    USA Tryouts was a lot of fun! It was a young group for the most part but ballers they are! It was fun to be a part of the excitement, youthfulness, and eagerness. For a lot of the players invited it was their first USA experience. It was great to be able to witness them going after their dreams, dreams of wearing the red, white, & blue. This is what it was all about. They were taking it all in, treasuring, and storing it! Lots of fun in San Diego. I am so grateful to be able to be apart of it and again have the honor of wearing USA this summer. I will be playing in the Canada Cup, Oklahoma World Cup, and the Japan Cup. I look forward to competing with this talented group.

    It was a little different this time. A new quad, many new players, and a new Coach. Sadly Coach Candrea retired from USA along with many legends of this game. They will all be missed so dearly! It won't be the same, but we look forward to the future of USA Softball. Look forward to Coach Miller and the future players of our game. It was a special week! A little reunion for us returners too. Congrats to all the invites, thanks for a fun week of great softball.

    After tryouts we were able to catch up with Casey for a couple days. Very short days it felt like. It was so much fun hanging with family and being with Casey! Casey is doing so well! We are so proud of him and all he is doing for the Express. He sacrifices a lot, and is so encouraging of my lil' softball gig! ;) I am so grateful and so honored to call him my husband! He is having such a great year! Keep it up honey!

    Ace is now locking me out of the bathroom stall... yet another milestone! Oh, he is getting so big! Too big! We are loving every minute spent with him. He is such a fun lil' man and so full of it. He is into singing, bull riding, fighting the thing called sleep, baseball (like his daddy, he is not shy to tell anyone and everyone his daddy plays baseball), eating (I think we are in a growth spurt), animals, attempting to swim (he doesn't get very far), being outside, wearing his catchers mask, and just a sweetie and a lover, he loves to cuddle! He is so much fun and what a blessing!

    Every good and perfect gift comes from Him!

    Dreaming & Believing!
    #27
    Close
  • Lisa A Combs Creech

    Viciousness of Softball Parents

    Posted July 04, 2009 by Lisa A Combs Creech
    Okay, we recently left a softball team my daughter was participating in because one of the assistant coach's daughters thought it was okay to punch my daughter in the back, pull her hair, tell her that she sucked at softball and the list goes on. Plus this assistant coach told us that he could spank our child while she was in his dugout for being upset at his daughter bullying her and we could do nothing about it. Needless to say, we moved back to her old team which is better..mostly.

    There are three sets of parents. One who sits almost on the board and doesn't like us and feels we are threatening her daughter's position, one set that is pretty nice but has gotten dragged in by the other two and then the three brain cell mother and grandmother. The first two are tolerable and come with the territory of travel softball, or so we've been told. The mother and grandmother are just awful. They have never spoken to us since we joined the team. They refused to send e-mails to us to include us on the snack list to bring for the girls. Their daughter is a bully and says things like"I have a glove like a tiger". Okay, I keep a scorebook of plays and errors. This girl is lucky if she catches the ball and if she is hitting, she either strikes out, hits the ball and it gets caught so she is out or hits the ball to where the runner is at and they get out.

    So long story short this parent went out of her way to yell at the coach for having her daughter sit out one inning in a practice scrimmage. In addition, my daughter recently injured her wrist sliding into home base which required x-rays at the hospital where the grandmother worked. Can you see where I am heading? Yes, the granddaughter on the team accused my daughter of not being hurt because her grandmother looked at my daughter's medical file. Plus the mother and grandmother discussed my daughter's medical file in the stands with the other parents. I guess she slept through the class on HIPPA on her job training.

    The good news is everyone learned a valuable lesson that night on right and wrong. It is just sad that the children had to be witness to such witless behavior. I just hope this mother and grandmother got their madness out of their system. Maybe their daughter can focus on her softball skills now instead of her bullying skills.
    Close
More News

Softball’s Best of the Web

  • Drills and Videos

    • PlaySportsTV - The best site for drills on the web joins Weplay and shares their videos with you!
    • Softball Performance.com - Over 2000 Pages and Hours of Video and Audio of Superb Information to improve performance.
    • Fastpitch TV - Videos and drills with interviews, tutorials, tip and other entertaining content.
    • Softball-Spot.com - A great resource with drills and articles for players, coaches and parents.
    • Gap to Gap Softball - Comprehensive softball videos from some of the best coaches around for every level.
    • Maven Softball - Great DVD collection for improving skills at all levels.
    • Rita Lynn - Premier softball pitching coach offering top-level instruction, drills and tips for improving your performance on the mound.
    • ChampionshipProductions.com - Over 2,100 instructional sports DVDs for player & team improvement. Coaches & athletes can start getting better today.
  • Blogs

  • For Parents

    • Softballpickles.com - Tips, drills, advice for players, coaches and kids.
    • Softball 2Day - Parents interference vs. involvement
    • Softballmom.org - Softball moms
    • Associated Content.com - Very basic introduction for parents and teaching your daughter to play softball.
    • Softball.com - Equipment and merchandise shop for all things softball. From bags to helmets. From bats to gloves. You'll be able to find it there.
  • Tournaments and Camps

Advertisement

Finch’s Favorites

Every week all season long, Jennie will pick her favorite softball team on weplay, give them an award, and write about them in her blog. Jennie could write about you!
Learn more