The Official Newsletter of Villanova Athletics

Good Morning, Nova Nation. What a moment for the ‘Cats!

What all do we have in today’s edition? Check it out below!

👟 Bringing It Home
🥍 Finishing Strong
🚣 Raising The Bar
🔷 And much more!

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🔼 Bringing It Home. For the unprecedented 98th time in program history, a Championship of America wheel is on its way back to Lancaster Avenue. So strong, so unmatched, and so unrivaled is the Villanova legacy at the Penn Relays that some would say the wheel is coming home.

The latest Wildcats championship team – 94 years after the first one – is the 4xMile relay squad consisting of graduate student Sean Donoghue, sophomore Ben Thomas, junior Bailey Habler and senior Marco Langon.

👟 Read About The Historic Effort

🔼 They Still Got It. The 4xMile team wasn’t the only members of the Villanova family enjoying a celebration this weekend at the historic Penn Relays.

Almost immediately after bringing home the wheel, a pair of former ‘Cats had their own celebrations. Charlie O’Donovan (Olympic Development elite men’s mile) and McKenna Kegan (Olympic Development 800 meters) both took home victories in their events.

👟 Read More

🔼 Finishing Strong. A season in which the biggest win in program history was recorded came to a close on Saturday in victorious fashion.

A season-high eight points from Mary Moore led the Villanova women’s lacrosse team to a dominant 18-9 win over Butler.

Moore scored a career-best six goals, while also dishing out two assists. Leslie Iorio added four goals, Rose Christie posted five assists and Elena Torres reached 100 career points with three helpers on the day.

🥍 The Full Recap

🔼 Raising The Bar. Villanova saw more season-best times on Saturday as the team wrapped up their two days of action at the Lake Wheeler Invitational.
 
Two of Villanova's boats posted sub-seven minute showings in the final day of competition against nationally-ranked teams, including a team-best 6:43.960 by the Varsity 8 to close out the day.

🚣 The Full Recap

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Monday, April 27th
🍻 2SP Brewing Company: Open Tasting Room

Tuesday, April 28th
🎨 Wayne Art Center Presents: The Joyful Artist
⚾️ Baseball vs. Saint Joseph’s @ 3:35pm
🥎 Softball vs. Lehigh @ 4pm

Wednesday, April 29th
🐦‍⬛ Weekday Bird Walk at Tyler Arboretum

Thursday, April 30th
🍷 Trivia Night at Grace Winery
🥍 Men’s Lacrosse vs. Providence @ 7:30pm
(BIG EAST Semifinals - Providence, R.I.)

Friday, May 1st
🎶 Live Music at 118 North
🥎 Softball vs. St. John’s @ 3:30pm
⚾️ Baseball at Georgetown @ 6pm
👟 Track & Field at Larry Ellis Invitational (Princeton, N.J.)

Saturday, May 2nd
🎭 Media Theater Presents: 9 to 5
🥎 Softball vs. St. John’s @ 12pm
🥍 Men’s Lacrosse at BIG EAST Championships @ 2pm l ESPNU
(with semifinal win - BIG EAST Finals - Providence, R.I.)
⚾️ Baseball at Georgetown @ 3pm
👟 Track & Field at Larry Ellis Invitational (Princeton, N.J.)
⛳️ Men’s Golf at BIG EAST Championship (Hardeeville, S.C.)

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