The Wolverines, led by head coach Carol Hutchins in her twenty-first season, played their home games at Alumni Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

They defeated UCLA in three games in the finals of the 2005 Women's College World Series to win their first championship in program history.

They became the first team in the Big Ten to win the Women's College World Series, and the first team east of the Mississippi River to win the NCAA Division I Softball championship.

12 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball preseason poll, becoming the top-ranked Big Ten school in both listings.

[3] Jessica Merchant and Nicole Motycka were both named to the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year preseason watch list.