The 2025 season was the first for Liz Young as an assistant coach at the College.
The Foresters posted a 28-16-1 overall record and claimed their second straight Midwest Conference championship with a 14-2 mark during league play in 2025. Lake Forest also hosted and won the four-team MWC Tournament to advance to the NCAA Division III Tournament. Seven Foresters were named all-conference and three earned National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-Region IX honors.
Young's coaching experience at the collegiate level also includes two seasons as the head coach at University of Detroit Mercy, two as hitting instructor and then acting head coach at Western Illinois University, and stints as a volunteer assistant at Ohio University and the University of New Mexico, her alma later.
Young has also served as the head coach at Nordonia High School in Macedonia, Ohio, and at the club level with Northern Nevada Tilt.
As a player, Young was a two-year starter at catcher for New Mexico and never missed a game, starting all 104 contests before an injury ended her collegiate career. A defensive standout, she set a single-season record with 20 caught stealings as a junior. She graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2009 as a double-major in American sign language Interpreting and intercultural communications.
She went on to play professionally for the Akron Racers of the National Pro Fastpitch League.
