New for the 2025-26 academic year, Villanova will announce its top performers from the previous week in a press release and social media post each Monday afternoon. The weekly wrap will recognize one standout student-athlete from each sport who competed during the previous week.
  
VILLANOVA, Pa.—It was another successful Homecoming Weekend for the Wildcats as the football team won its fifth straight Homecoming game and the volleyball team tallied a crucial BIG EAST win over rival Marquette on Saturday night. The latest edition of the Villanova Athletics Weekly Wrap features 10 teams for the second straight week.
 
Women's Cross Country
Lizzie Martell, Graduate Student, Essex Junction, Vt.
 
Martell was the Wildcats top finisher at the Haverford Invitational last week as Villanova tallied its fourth invitational win of the season. She came in second in the 5K race with a time of 17:39.4 and recorded her second runner-up finish of the season.
 
Field Hockey
Erin Mitchell, Freshman, Forward, Villanova, Pa.
 
Villanova put itself in excellent position to qualify for one of four spots in the BIG EAST Championship with a 4-2 win over Providence in its final home game last week. Mitchell scored goals in the third and fourth quarters of the victory and was credited with her second career game-winning goal. She recorded her first career multi-goal game and has found the back of the cage three times this season.
 
Football
Luke Colella, Graduate Student, Wide Receiver, Wexford, Pa.
 
Colella had six receptions for 107 yards and two touchdowns in the Wildcats win over UAlbany. He recorded his fifth 100-yard receiving game of the season and fourth in the last five weeks while hauling in touchdown receptions for 34 yards and 36 yards. Colella's five 100-yard games this season are one away from tying the single season school record.
 
Golf
Ryan Pamer, Senior, Hudson, Ohio
 
Pamer tallied his third top-10 finish of the season and was the Wildcats top finisher at the Nassau Intercollegiate last week. He came in sixth overall and finished the 54-hole tournament with a score of 216 (+6) at Nassau Country Club.
 
Rowing
Kate Shipley, Sophomore, New Hope, Pa.
 
Villanova launched its Fall competition season last week at the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta and came away with a pair of top-three finishes. Shipley was the coxswain for both boats which earned medals, including the Championship Fours earlier in the day and the Championship Eights later in the afternoon.
  
Men's Soccer
Josh Oladele, Junior, Midfielder, Yardley, Pa.
 
Oladele recorded his first points of the season with a goal and an assist in a 3-0 win over VMI during the week. The first goal of his collegiate career was the game-winner just 5:59 into the contest and Oladele also registered an assist on the game's final goal in the 51^st minute.
 
Women's Soccer
Hannah Dickinson, Senior, Goalkeeper, Seattle, Wash.
 
Villanova played two BIG EAST matches last week and Dickinson totaled 19 saves with an .864 save percentage in the pair of contests. She had one of the best games of her career in a narrow 1-0 setback against No. 12 Georgetown when she had a career-high 15 saves. The total number of stops was four more than her previous career high and made her the Wildcats first keeper with 10+ saves in a single game in more than four years.
 
Men's Swimming & Diving
Max Kunisaki, Freshman, Free/IM, Cockeysville, Md.
 
Kunisaki tallied his second individual win of the season with a first place finish in the 100 free against Georgetown over the weekend. He touched the wall in 46.24 for the win after earlier anchoring the Wildcats to a second place finish in the 200 yard medley relay with a time of 1:31.27.
 
Women's Swimming & Diving
Anna Farley, Junior, Fly/IM, Edina, Minn.
 
Farley was a double winner in the 100 free and the 200 free against Georgetown last week. Her winning times were 50.65 and 1:50.85, respectively, and she helped the Wildcats improve to 3-0 on the season with a 172-128 victory in the team results.
 
Volleyball
Reagan McGivern, Freshman, Middle Blocker, Topeka, Kan.
 
McGivern had a BIG EAST best 10 blocks on Saturday night as Villanova defeated Marquette for the first time in eight years. She added eight kills in the match and finished the week averaging more than 1.5 blocks per set in two matches. McGivern totaled 14 blocks and 18 kills against DePaul and Marquette, including a match versus the Blue Demons in which she had a career high 10 kills while hitting at a .350 clip.
 

 

Villanova Athletics Scoreboard
 
October 20-26
 
Monday, October 20
 
Golf: Nassau Intercollegiate (tie-9^th of 12, Day 1)
 
Tuesday, October 21
 
Men's Soccer: Villanova 3, VMI 0
Golf: Nassau Intercollegiate (7^th of 12, Final)
 
Wednesday, October 22
 
Women's Soccer: No. 12 Georgetown 1, Villanova 0
 
Friday, October 24
 
Field Hockey: Villanova 4, Providence 2
Women's Cross Country: Haverford Invitational (1^st of 7)
Volleyball: DePaul 3, Villanova 1
Women's Basketball: Villanova 79, Towson 54 (exhibition game)
Men's Basketball: Virginia 75, Villanova 72 (exhibition game)
 
Saturday, October 25
 
Football: Villanova 29, UAlbany 16
Volleyball: Villanova 3, Marquette 1
Women's Swimming & Diving: Villanova 172, Georgetown 128
Women's Soccer: Providence 2, Villanova 1
Men's Soccer: No. 15, Georgetown 3, Villanova 0
Men's Swimming & Diving: Georgetown 199.5, Villanova 100.5
Rowing: Head of the Schuylkill Regatta
 
This Week's Schedule
 
October 27-November 2
Home events in bold and are listed first
 
Wednesday, October 29
 
3:00 PM           Men's/Women's Diving at La Salle
 
Thursday, October 30
 
All Day Golf at Big 5 Invitational (Lafayette Hill, Pa.)
7:00 PM           Women's Basketball at Fairleigh Dickinson (exhibition game)
 
Friday, October 31
 
12:00 PM ET (11:00 AM CT)    Men's Cross Country: BIG EAST Championships (Ashland, Neb.)
12:50 PM ET (11:50 AM CT)    Women's Cross Country: BIG EAST Championships (Ashland, Neb.)
3:00 PM           Field Hockey at No. 7 Liberty
6:00 PM           Volleyball at Xavier
 
Saturday, October 25
 
11:00 AM         Men's/Women's Swimming vs. La Salle
12:00 PM         Men's Soccer vs. St. John's
3:00 PM           Women's Soccer vs. Butler
 
7:00 PM           Volleyball at Butler
 
Sunday, October 26
 
All Day Rowing: Princeton Invitational