The 2012 season will be Michelle Oswald's second on the Forester coaching staff. She serves as the hitting coach and works directly with the team's infielders.

Lake Forest ranked fourth in the Midwest Conference with a .315 batting average and second with 26 home runs and a .468 slugging percentage in 2011. Six starters hit at least .300 on the season and eight belted at least one home run. Third baseman Aubrey Pendegraft was named MWC South Division Co-Player of the Year.

Oswald is actually in her ninth season as a collegiate softball coach. She was the assistant at Dominican University in 2000 before taking over as head coach for the next six years.

In 2006 Oswald joined the National Baseball & Softball Academy (later changed its name to Drive Performance), where she trained softball players from the fundamentals to advanced techniques of hitting, pitching, catching, fielding. Serving as the organization's Director of Softball & Certified iTrac Vision Trainer, she trained the USA Olympic Softball Team, USA World University Team, Comcast Chicago Bandits, and UCLA softball team using the pantented iTrac Vision Training System.

Oswald was a four-year NCAA Division I softball player at Northeastern Illinois University, where she set several school records and was named Mid-Continent Conference Newcomer of the Year in 1995 and Player of the Year the following season. As one of the top 60 seniors in the nation, she was drafted by the Orlando Wahoos of the Women's Professional Softball League in December of 1997.

In addition to coaching at the College, Oswald also serves as a softball instructor at the BatSpeed Academy in Gurnee, Illinois.