University of Wisconsin-Madison Softball

The Healy File Education DePaul, 1999 Family Husband, Shawn; daughters, Grace & Maeve Coaching Experience Overall Record: 579-482-2 Head Coach, Wisconsin (2010-present) 448-310-1 (15) Head Coach, Loyola University (Ill.) (2004-2010) 131-172-1 Assistant Coach, DePaul University (2002-2004) Championships Big Ten Tournament: 2013 Horizon League: 2007 Awards Horizon League Coach of the Year: 2007 DePaul head coach Eugene Lenti: "Yvette Healy is the perfect fit for Wisconsin. She has everything you're looking for in a head coach with her leadership skills as well as her experience. She's a talented offensive coach, who loves to be aggressive, executing hit and runs, squeezes, etc. She's also a great recruiter and family-oriented person who understands what it takes to be a successful student athlete, being that she was an All-American herself." Arkansas head coach Mike Larabee "Yvette is a coach that I have always had great respect for. Her teams are always very well coached, disciplined and know how to play the game with energy and passion. She will do an outstanding job in turning around the Wisconsin softball program." Yvette Healy enters her 16th season at the helm of the program with the highest winning percentage of any UW coach in the program’s 30-year history with a .591 (448-310-1) winning percentage. Last season, 2025, Wisconsin flipped the script from a season ago finishing 33-21 (11-11), compared the 21-31 (8-15) record the prior season. On March 28, the Badgers had al

Danielle Zymkowitz is in her ninth season as an associate head coach for the Badgers. In the 2019 season, Zymkowitz coached the team to the second-most wins in program history with also being the fastest team to 30 wins. This team went 43-14 overall and 15-8 in conference play. Zymkowitz coached the team to their third consecutive NCAA tournament where the team had a win against No. 1 seed Oklahoma. She helped Big Ten player of the year Kayla Konwent to make noise with the bat, posting 15 home-runs on the season and a .459 batting average. In 2019 she also helped Badger's catcher, Taylor Johnson to be a first team All-Big Ten selection in her sophomore season. Johnson was second on the team in home-runs and batting average. Zymkowitz helped Wisconsin to its second-straight NCAA Tournament with a 29-23 record in 2018. The Badgers also went 11-9 in Big Ten play, their best conference winning percentage since 2014. Kelsey Jenkins and Brooke Wyderski led the Badgers at the plate during their senior seasons. The dynamic duo ranked first and second on the team in batting average, hits, doubles and RBI. Jenkins also led the Big Ten during the regular season in batting average (.420) and on base percent (.578). Coach Z also helped develop freshman Taylor Johnson into one of the most feared Badger bats. Johnson led the team with eight homers on the season and ranks top-five on the freshman single-season records list for home runs, RBI, walks, stolen bases, sacrifice flies and stolen b