HELP Screen Print Gradients, and halftones

Followup.  Question number 2.  That design appears to have been already printed ( see halftone dots in Blues ).  In order to get the White, you need to do either a flash or a flood using White undercolor.  So, the actual inks you use to print the shirt will probably be three: 1. White, 1. Black, 1. Blue.  "Lady Wolves" lettering has a blue gradient inside it.  "Basketball" has another blue gradient.  There are other methods of printing, such as inkjet or thermal transfer which may be easier.

Let me try to help...

"1) will RIP software print gradients? I've heard on numerous You Tube videos you have to change the gradient to a halftone, so if that's the case is the film that's got the gradient on it, for example a yellow color, will the film print a yellow gradient/ or a yellow halftone if this makes any sense?"

- Screen printing is really quite complex.  So, yes, the RIP will "generate" a gradient, however, you need a RIP that will print separations as "halftones" and send that to you as film positives ( which are then used to make the actual individual screens for printing on garments}.  There is another way, too.  You could export the artwork as a .tiff file and open it in Photoshop.  More on this in answer number 2;

"2) I made a design (stupid me) that I don't even know how to print and it makes me nervous, I am going to submit that here. PLease tell me how this will print. Theres a bunch of offset paths, and when i click on it there are millions of lines, and it scares me! LOL. What do I do to make this a better file to use for print?"

- You could export the artwork as a .tiff file and open it in Photoshop.  It gets a little tricky because you should size the artwork before Export out of Illustrator.  Open the .tiff in Photoshop ( if you have it and you should ) > Go to Channels > Split Channels ( you should get 4 CMYK channels: 1. file.cyan; 2. file.magenta; 3. file.yellow; and 4. file.black ) > these should be Grayscale files. In your design, if it prints on dark, you will need a flash White underprint channel, to get this, you will duplicate one of the Channels and Invert it.  Consult with a local source to help you with this because it is pretty complex manipulations and there will be some additional retouching, I'm sure.

Getting back to your artwork.  In Photoshop, open the Cyan channel > you should see a grayscale version of the separated cyan colors > go to Image -Mode = Bitmap > Resolution = Input - whatever your original file is, Output - 2540ppi; Method = Halftone > Halftone = Frequency - 35lpi ( for mesh of silk screen ), Angle - 75 degrees ( or whatever is suitable for the mesh of the screen and the channel itself ), Shape - Ellipse.  In these steps, you are bypassing the RIP and doing the halftones yourself, but they still need to be output onto clear film for generationg the silk screen(s).  Since you have chosen a field which you have little to no training, no education that we know of, perhaps you may want to get that before venturing into screen print design and prepress.