Villanova wins the Championship of America 4x1500 meter relay for the third straight year, fifth time in the last six seasons and 13th time overall! Winning time was 17:39.26 and a margin of victory of more than 11 seconds.
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#PennRelays125
1️⃣5️⃣:5️⃣1️⃣.9️⃣1️⃣
Knocking down the FIRST EVER sub-16 time, a collegiate record AND the second-fastest time in world history to win back-to-back 4xMile titles 🤯🤯🤯🤯
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#PennRelays
Sean Dolan’s time of 3:57.20 is the fastest that a Villanovan has ever run at the indoor NCAA Championships! He is the 43rd member of the Villanova sub-4 mile club!
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3️⃣:5️⃣8️⃣.9️⃣5️⃣ and sub-4 history for
@charlieod_1500
in the Mile!
Blistering finish to a great race and Charlie is the 42nd Villanovan to run a sub-4:00 Mile!
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#sub4
#sub4club
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Lydia Olivere is your
#NCAAmidatlantic
regional champion! She wins it in 20:02.0 and we are headed back to nationals with a second place team finish!
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What a race for McKenna Keegan in the 800 meter quarterfinals! Her time of 2:01.25 is the third-fastest in school history and the fastest within the NCAA season!
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#NCAATFeast
🎥:
Caroline Alcorta with a phenomenal race and a 5th place finish in the 10000 meters! She is our first
#NCAATF
scorer in the 10K in 25 years.
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#RiseAs1
Results:
Siofra Cleirigh Buttner finishes 4th in the final of the 800m at
#NCAATF
in 2:05.73! It's our best outdoor finish in the 800 meters in 23 years!!
#NovaNation
Congratulations to Siofra Cleirigh Buttner and Logan Wetzel on being named the
@BIGEAST
Men's and Women's Track Athletes of the Week. Cleirigh Buttner (800m) and Wetzel (Mile) lead the BIG EAST in their events this season, and Cleirigh Buttner ranks fourth in the nation!
Casey Comber makes a HUGE move in the final lap and finishes 2nd in the Mile at
#NCAATF
! Incredible finish and he runs a time of 4:08.03
#GoNova
#Run4Nova
As records go this is a HUGE one! Our men’s DMR runs 9:20.44 to shatter the record of 9:21.04 set at the 1987 Penn Relays. It breaks the former indoor mark by 7️⃣ seconds!
#GoNova
#fastcats
"Putting on the V is different. It’s a mentality. You’re giving it your all for everyone that’s come before you. At Villanova, you’re trusted with the past, present and future."
These are the uniforms we will wear to the starting line for
#NCAAXC
#RepTheV
#Run4Nova
#RiseAs1
With this jump earlier today Sanaä Barnes is our first qualifier for the NCAA Championships! She cleared the bar at 1.80 meters (5-10 3/4) on her first try at the
#NCAAEastPrelims
.
#GoNova
#RiseAs1
Here is our
#PanAmU20
summary:
Events for Villanova - 3️⃣
Results - 🥇 🥇 🥇
Congratulations to the GOLD MEDAL trio of Sanaä Barnes, Maggie Smith and Lydia Olivere!
#NovaNation
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Congratulations to Marcus O'Sullivan on being named the Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year! O'Sullivan has led the Wildcats to the
@BIGEASTchamps
and
#NCAAMidAtlantic
team titles, and Villanova is headed to nationals this weekend!
#GoNova
Story:
SCHOOL RECORD!
At yesterday's Hurricane Alumni Invitational, junior sprinter Trudy-Ann Williamson broke the school record in the 100 meters with a PR of 11.58! The previous record of 11.71 stood for nearly five years.
#GoNova
#PowerUp
#recordbreaker
Congratulations to Marcus O’Sullivan on his 12th career Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year honor, including his 8th in men’s XC! O’Sullivan and assistant coach
@MattValeriani
guided the Wildcats to BIG EAST and NCAA regional titles along with program’s top NCAA finish in eight years!
🥇Sean Dolan - 800 Meters (1:47.53)
The indoor school record in the 800 meters has FALLEN! Sean Dolan smashes the Wildcats indoor record that had stood for 40 years to win GOLD!
#GoNova
#BIGEASTtrack
🔵⚪️💪
“This is a huge deal for Marco to achieve the result he did today and it is impressive for him to reach this level at such a young age.”
- Villanova head coach Marcus O’Sullivan on Marco Langon qualifying for the World Cross Country Championships
Story:
A celebration years in the making! We were so excited to honor our 𝑵𝑰𝑵𝑬 national championship women’s cross country teams today! Thank you to everyone who came back for this special day
#NovaNation
With our season opener just a few days away, the Villanova men have earned the
#1
ranking in the Mid-Atlantic Region in the
@ustfccca
preseason poll!
#GoNova
🔵⚪️✌️
Freshman thrower Taryn Ashby came in first in the college section of the javelin this afternoon with a PR of 46.16 meters! She was already 2nd in the BIG EAST this season and her new mark moves her up to 29th on the East Region qualifying list
#PennRelays
#GoNova
A new PR and a first team All-American finish in fifth place for
@seandolan__
! He runs 1:46.38 in the final of the 800 meters!
#NCAATF
#GoNova
Results:
ON TO THE FINAL!
@seandolan__
runs a huge PR of 3:57.20 and is an automatic qualifier for tomorrow’s national championship race in the Mile! We also officially welcome him to our exclusive
#NovaTrackXC
sub-club!!!
#GoNova
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Ashley Preston matches her lifetime best and wins the BIG EAST title in the pole vault with a height of 3.85 meters! Here is what the VU freshman had to say afterwards
The fastest 800 meter final in
#BIGEASTtrack
history! Sean Dolan breaks his own meet record and school record with a blistering time of 1:46.90 to win his third straight indoor title!
#GoNova
Congratulations to Haftu Strintzos and head coach Marcus O’Sullivan on being named the
@USTFCCCA
Mid-Atlantic Region Athlete of the Year and Coach of the Year in men’s cross country!
#GoNova
🔵⚪️
Story:
Sanaä Barnes is the first Villanova woman to be an indoor All-American in a field event, and the women’s first ever All-American indoors or outdoors in one of the jumps
#NCAATF
#GoNova
Some of the fastest times we can remember in tonight’s 1500 meters at the Joe Walker Invite!
Casey Comber - 3:37.76
Sean Dolan - 3:38.60
Charlie O’Donovan - 3:40.95
#GoNova
🔵⚪️
Results:
Now that's how you close a race and sweep the top three spots in your heat! Nick Steele, Casey Comber and Charlie O'Donovan headed to the final at
#BIGEASTtrack
#GoNova
𝓢𝓒𝓗𝓞𝓞𝓛 𝓡𝓔𝓒𝓞𝓡𝓓!!
Liam Murphy SHATTERS the Villanova indoor record in the 5K with a time of 13:21.20 tonight in Boston! The previous indoor mark of 13:37.73 had been set by Olympian
@tiernan_patrick
in 2014.
Race Results:
#GoNova
🔵⚪️✌️
Congratulations to Harry Purcell on being named the BIG EAST Men's Track Athlete of the Week. His winning time of 1:17.85 in the 600 meters at Penn State last weekend is the fastest in the nation this season
#GoNova
Congratulations to Sanaä Barnes on being named BIG EAST Women's Field Athlete of the Week. She came in second at the Penn Relays and set the outdoor school record in the high jump over the weekend.
Story:
#GoNova
Lifetime PR ✅
#6
time in school history ✅
#3
collegian in 1500m final ✅
What an impressive week it has been for Liam Murphy!
#TrackFieldTrials24
Results:
Sweep! Men and women sweep conference championships today
@bigeastconf
. Great all around team efforts, leaving their mark in Villanova history
#BigEastTrack
#champs
.
@Siofrog
set a meet record in the 800 meters with her winning time of 2:03.89 yesterday at
#BIGEASTtrack
. Check it out here as she runs her final lap
Sean Dolan is the first Villanova men's runner to qualify for an outdoor final in the 800 meters since Sam Ellison in 2012! He is the fifth-fastest qualifier from the semifinal round and will race in the final on Friday at 10:14pm ET!
#GoNova
#NCAATF
Taryn Ashby threw for 48.03 meters in the javelin tonight at the
#FloridaRelays
. The mark is a new school record for the lighter implement which debuted in 1999!
#GoNova