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References
- ↑ "1996 NSCA Division I All-America Teams". Nfca.org. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
- ↑ "1998 NSCA Division I All-America Teams". Nfca.org. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
- ↑ "Yvette Healy". UWBadgers.com. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ↑ "2019-20 Summit League Softball Record Book" (PDF). Thesummitleague.org. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
- ↑ "Yvette Healy". UWBadgers.com. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ↑ "Archived Team-By-Team Final Statistics". Ncaa.org. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
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