STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.—It turns out that last week's first indoor track & field meet of the season was a preview of things to come for graduate thrower Sade Meeks (North Babylon, N.Y.), who followed up her school record performance in the weight throw from the Penn 10-Team Select on January 15 by shattering her own mark with a phenomenal personal best of 20.88 meters at the Villanova Invitational on Saturday afternoon. Competing at Ocean Breeze Track & Field Athletic Complex for the second straight week, Meeks added nearly three meters to her Wildcats record and tallied the 13^th best mark in the country for the current indoor season.
 
Villanova hosted 12 women's teams and 11 men's teams in Saturday's meet and notched six first-place finishes. Meeks added to her historic performance in the weight throw by winning the shot put with a throw of 14.18 meters. She matched her efforts from last week's season opener by finishing first in both of her events. Junior sprinter Jane Livingston (Lancaster, Pa.) won the 60 meter hurdles and rose to fourth place on the Wildcats all-time performance list in the event with a personal best mark of 8.32 in the preliminary heats. The other individual winners for Villanova in its only home meet of the year were graduate student McKenna Keegan (West Grove, Pa.) in the 400 meters (54.71), junior Madison Martinez (Gahanna, Ohio) in the 500 meters (1:15.12) and junior Anna Helwigh (Soborg, Denmark) in the 1000 meters (2:51.76).
 
Three of the four Wildcats who competed in the weight throw on Saturday recorded personal best marks on the day. All four rank in the top 10 of the program's all-time performance list in the event. Graduate Jul Thomson (Otterville, Ont.) tallied her second straight PR to open the season with a mark of 16.55 meters on Saturday. Senior Emily Galvin (Pitman, N.J.) rose a spot to sixth place on Villanova's all-time list with a mark of 16.15 meters, while graduate Samantha Stevens (Shelton, Conn.) threw for 13.73 meters.
 
Meeks won the shot put with a throw of 14.18 meters which is the eighth-longest indoors in the Wildcats record book. In her Villanova debut last week Meeks tallied the program's third-best indoor mark with a throw of 14.76 meters. Thomson came in fourth in the shot put on Saturday with an indoor personal best of 13.38 meters, while Stevens had a mark of 12.45 meters and Galvin threw for 11.50 meters. Senior multi-event athlete Liv Morgan (Bronx, N.Y.) added a mark of 10.15 meters in the competition. Morgan also ran the 60 meters (8.28) as she builds towards multi-event competitions later in the season.
 
In the 60 meter hurdles, Livingston led the field of 14 competitors in the preliminary heats with a time of 8.32 and later won the final in 8.40. She had tied her lifetime best of 8.38 in the season opener last week and lowered the mark with Saturday's performance, which puts her into fourth place in the Wildcats record book. Senior sprinter Trinity Hart (Scotch Plains, N.J.) posted a time of 7.89 in the 60 meters and junior Alexis Martin (Gaithersburg, Md.) had a time of 8.06.
 
The distance trio of junior Maggie Smith (Halifax, N.S.), senior Lydia Olivere (Wilmington, Del.) and freshman Sadie Sigfstead (Edmonton, Alta.) each set new personal bests in the Mile. It was the second straight week with that claim for Smith and Olivere, who crossed the finish line within less than six-tenths of a second of each other. Smith was the runner-up in the race with a time of 4:41.07, followed by Olivere (4:41.59), Sigfstead (4:51.89) and freshman Emma McGill (Lebanon, N.J.) who posted a time of 4:55.61 to give Villanova four consecutive finishers from second through fifth place.
 
Martinez won the 500 meters in 1:15.12 and freshman Alex Stasichin (Massapequa, N.Y.) came in third in the race with a time of 1:16.00. Stasichin later anchored the Wildcats lineup in the 4x400 meter relay and Villanova came in second in the relay with a time of 3:49.16. Martin (59.32) led off the race and was followed by Martinez (56.76), Keegan (54.00) and Stasichin (59.08) on the final three legs.
 
After two meets in New York to begin the indoor campaign, the Wildcats will travel to Boston next week for the John Thomas Terrier Classic.