In three short seasons, Yvette Healy, the 2007 Horizon League Coach of the Year, has put her stamp on the Loyola softball program as the team has taken on the traits she displayed as a standout player at DePaul. Not one to shy away from playing quality competition, Healy has upgraded the Ramblers' schedule in her tenure as the team has faced national and regional powers like UCLA, California, Florida, Georgia, Oregon State, Northwestern, DePaul, Iowa, Michigan State, Illinois, Wisconsin, Illinois State and UC Santa Barbara, among others.

Despite being a head coach for only three seasons, Healy has helped three Ramblers reach All-Mideast Region status, has twice produced Loyola's Female Athlete of the Year and has coached players that currently rank as Loyola's career leaders in at-bats, runs, home runs and RBI.

The 2007 season was a memorable one for Healy and the program for a handful of reasons. In addition to claiming the Horizon League regular-season crown with a 14-5 ledger, the Ramblers posted 21 total victories, their most since the 2004 campaign. Loyola posted three wins over nationally ranked teams, with all of those wins coming against in-state rivals. A March 14 victory over No. 17 Illinois State was the program's first over a Top 25 squad since 2000, a triumph over No. 7 Northwestern on April 17 was the Ramblers' first-ever over a top-ten team and a late-season win versus No. 14 DePaul was Loyola's first victory over its crosstown rival since 1995. Under Healy's guidance, Loyola won 17 of its final 26 games of the year, including those contests over Women's College World Series participants Northwestern and DePaul.

Healy helped mold a pair of players, second baseman Kat Krause and pitcher Amy Solava, into Second Team All-Mideast Region performers. Krause turned in one of the best all-around offensive seasons in recent Loyola history, batting .336 with nine doubles, 11 home runs and 28 RBI, while Solava won 12 games and struck out 161 batters in 164.2 innings. For the first time since 2004, Loyola placed four players on the All-Horizon League First Team and Solava became the first Loyola freshman ever to earn League Pitcher of the Year accolades.

Off the field, the Ramblers enjoyed equal success as the team was hailed with the Horizon League's Community Service Award for its work in and around the Rogers Park community. Krause also became the second player in Healy's tenure to earn ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District V honors while the team compiled a cumulative grade-point average of over 3.4 this season.

In 2006, Healy's squad displayed both speed and power as the Ramblers established new single-season school records with 101 stolen bases and 33 home runs to go with 202 runs scored. Under Healy's tutelage, Tara Miller blossomed into one of the top players in the region as she earned All-Mideast Region accolades. Miller set new Loyola single-campaign standards in stolen bases (34) and runs (50) and Krause set Loyola single-season and career records for home runs. Five Ramblers earned All-Horizon League honors, highlighted by Miller's first-team selection and senior Trish Oberhaus posted the highest grade-point average of any female student-athlete at the Loyola.

Despite playing with a roster that featured 10 freshmen in 2006, Healy was able to get the most out of a team that improved as the season progressed. She mentored her squad to 20 victories, marking the seventh time in the last eight seasons the Ramblers have achieved that feat. Loyola played its best softball at the end of the year, as it posted a 9-6 mark over the final 15 games of the season, including a 2-2 mark at the Horizon League Championship. Healy led Loyola to a pair of monumental victories in 2006 as the Ramblers earned a 3-0 victory over Michigan State, their first-ever against the Spartans, and a 6-4 decision at Notre Dame, their first versus the Irish since 1999.

In 2005, her first season at Loyola, Healy helped the Ramblers to a fourth-place finish in the Horizon League as the team posted its highest batting average (.249) since 1995. Under her guidance, three Ramblers earned All-Horizon League honors in 2005 - catcher Raven Gengler, first baseman Allison Scanlin and pitcher Mia Pangere. Scanlin also excelled off the field, and in addition to earning Loyola Female Athlete of the Year accolades, was hailed as a member of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team.

In two seasons as an assistant at her alma mater, DePaul, Healy worked primarily with infielders and hitters, helping the Blue Demons to a pair of Conference USA Championships and NCAA Regional appearances. The seasons were highlighted with wins over UCLA, Fresno State, Nebraska, Notre Dame, South Florida, Louisville and Illinois. Four seasons ago, she tutored her hitters to the third-highest batting average in the nation (.320). In 2003 and 2004, Healy's work was influential as five players earned All-America accolades.

A three-time Academic All-American, and two-time Athletic All-American honoree as a player, Healy ranks second on the DePaul single-season chart with a .424 batting average and is the school's all-time leader with 102 stolen bases. In her senior campaign in 1999, Healy led the Blue Demons to a school-record 54 victories, an NCAA Regional Championship and the College World Series as the team wrapped up the year ranked third in the nation. She earned All-Mideast Region honors on three occasions as well.

Healy was a standout three-sport athlete and salutatorian at Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox, Ill., and graduated Cum Laude from DePaul with a double major in marketing and communications. She worked as the director of marketing for the Chicago Bulls and White Sox Academy before joining the coaching ranks at her alma mater.

During the summer of 2005, Healy was chosen to attend the prestigious NCAA Women's Coaches Academy in Denver.

Yvette and her husband Shawn reside in Chicago with their two dogs, Wrigley and Blue.