The home of the Fighting Irish softball team since the team began varsity competition in 1989, Ivy Field is one of the finest softball complexes in the BIG EAST Conference. The facility has played host to postseason action twice, welcoming the 1998 BIG EAST Championship and, most recently, hosted an NCAA regional site in 2005 for the first time in the program's history.

Team records include 24 wins on the field in 1996 and a perfect 18-0 home field record in 2001.

Ivy Field features full heated dugouts that are also linked into the field's sound system. Recent upgrades have included a completely new padded backstop with state-or-the-art netting and new protective padding added to the dugouts. The field features an upgraded lighting system - allowing for night games to be played (the first of which occurred on April 2, 1996).

The facility can seat over 1,000 fans and is typically filled up on warm spring days.

Both the Irish softball and baseball team also have access to the indoor hitting facility adjacent to Eck Stadium (the home of Notre Dame baseball).

The 9,000-square foot facility - located adjacent to the leftfield line - includes: wall-to-wall artificial turf floor; three full-length batting tunnels; a regulation clay pitching circle (for softball and two mounds for baseball) within the tunnels; a one half-cage with clay home plate area for catchers drills; and an "Iron Mike" pitching machine, with automatic ball feeder and remote control. The 120 x 80 facility includes men's and women's restrooms and a classroom for video analysis. The building is outfitted with complete central air conditioning and heating, plus a lighting setup that matches professional standards. A final addition there are six cardiovascular exercise machines-including two stair masters, three stationary bicycles and a treadmill-which allow maximum conditioning opportunities. The Irish combine use of the new indoor facility (for pitching, hitting and catching) with the existing Loftus Center (used primarily for defensive fundamentals and baserunning).