Coach Richard Panella has been the head softball coach since 1991. He also coaches women's basketball and serves as assistant athletic director and intramural director at Stritch.
Throughout his career, the women's softball team advanced to the tournament semifinals in both the Lake Michigan Conference and the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference and has made it to sectional playoffs in NAIA tournaments.
Panella's background includes numerous years of playing and coaching softball on an amateur level. Many of those teams qualified for national tournaments.
Discipline, unselfish play and team chemistry are the cornerstones of Panella's philosophy.