2021-22 Women's Track & Field Roster

Samantha Stevens

  • Academic Year Graduate Student
  • Position Throws
  • Hometown Shelton, Conn.
  • Highschool Shelton

Biography

CAREER COLLEGIATE RESULTS

Graduate transfer from Dartmouth who joins the Villanova throwing group in 2021-22 … Experienced collegiate student-athlete who has thrown the shot put, weight, discus and hammer during her career … Top event is the shot put both indoors and outdoors … Will draw upon her previous collegiate experience as she continues her career with the Wildcats.
 
 
PERSONAL BESTS
Shot Put 13.35 Meters Heptagonal Championships (3.1.2020)
Weight Throw 14.91 Meters Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont (12.9.2017)
Discus 38.08 Meters Black and Gold Challenge (Orlando, Fla.)
Hammer 43.57 Meters BIG EAST Championships (5.13.2022)
 
 
CAREER HONORS AND AWARDS
ACADEMIC HONORS
BIG EAST All-Academic Team 2021-22
Athletic Director's Honor Roll Fall 2021, Spring 2022
 
 
CAREER BIG EAST RESULTS
2022 OUTDOOR (STORRS, CONN. | GEORGE J. SHERMAN FAMILY SPORTS COMPLEX)
Date Event Mark Place
May 13 Hammer 43.57m 9th
May 14 Shot Put 12.33m 13th
2022 INDOOR (CHICAGO, ILL. | TRACK & FIELD CENTER AT GATELY PARK)
Date Event Mark Place
February 25 Weight Throw 13.33m 14th
February 26 Shot Put 12.76m 8th
 
 
INDOOR

2020 (Dartmouth): Threw the shot put at eight meets during the season, including at the Ivy League meet … Improved her season-best mark in each of her final four competitions of the year; Maine and Vermont (12/14): Opened the season by finishing sixth in a home triangular meet and recording a distance of 11.60 meters; Dartmouth Relays (1/10): Came in 10th with a distance of 11.30 metes; Columbia and Yale (1/18): Posted a fifth place finish with a then-season best mark of 12.57 meters; Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont (1/25): Finished fifth in a home quadrangular meet with a measurement of 12.04 meters; New England Championships (2/1): Started a string of four straight meets in which she extended her season best mark in the shot put … Threw for 12.70 meters and tallied a ninth place finish at the New England meet; Massachusetts, Williams and Vermont (2/8): Runner-up with a mark of 12.72 meters; Giegengack Invitational (2/15): Threw for a distance of 12.79 meters in a meet at Yale; Heptagonal Championships (3/1): Threw for over 13 meters in the shot put for the first time in her career and came in eighth at the Ivy League meet with a mark of 13.35 meters.
 
2019 (Dartmouth): Competed exclusively in the shot put and appeared at six meets during the season; Sharon Colyear-Danville BU Season Opener (12/1): Registered a mark of 11.13 meters in the season opener at Boston University; Dartmouth Relays (1/13): Came in seventh at a home meet with a distance of 10.91 meters; Maine and Vermont (1/26): Matched her highest place of the season with a fourth place showing and a throw of 11.69 meters; New England Championships (2/2): Recorded her best mark of the season with a throw of 12.14 meters which put her in 14th place at the New England meet; FastTrack National Invitational (2/8): Came in fourth with a mark of 12.02 meters; Heptagonal Championships (2/24): Recorded a distance of 11.68 meters in the shot put at the conference championships.
 
2018 (Dartmouth): Competed at eight meets during the season while throwing both the shot put and the weight … Threw the shot put at the Heptagonal Championships; Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont (12/9): Made her collegiate debut in a home quadrangular meet and finished first in the shot put with a winning mark of 12.39 meters … Came in seventh in the weight throw with a mark of 14.91 meters; Dartmouth Relays (1/7): Posted marks of 11.95 meters in the shot put and 14.06 meters in the weight throw; Brown, Maine and Vermont (1/13): Finished third in the shot put with a distance of 12.03 meters and came in seventh in the weight throw wit a measurement of 13.10 meters; Columbia and Yale (1/20): Notched her second win of the year in the shot put while recording a season-best mark of 12.64 meters … Came in fourth in the weight throw with a distance of 14.76 meters; New Hampshire (1/27): In a road dual meet came in first in the shot put (12.56m) and fifth in the weight throw (14.74m); New England Championships (2/3): Recorded a throw of 12.56 meters in the shot put; FastTrack National Invitational (2/9): Posted marks of 11.65 meters in the shot put and 13.94 meters in the weight throw; Heptagonal Championships (2/24): At her first collegiate conference championship competed in the shot put and registered a 13th place finish with a mark of 12.53 meters.
 
OUTDOOR

2021 (Dartmouth): Appeared at two meets during the abbreviated outdoor season as Dartmouth returned to action in late April after a hiatus of more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic; UNH Pre-Conference Invitational (4/24): Came in third in the shot put with a throw of 12.50 meters and was ninth in the discus with a mark of 34.99 meters in a meet t New Hampshire; Dartmouth Outdoor Invitational (5/7): Came in third in the shot put (12.74m) while notching fifth place finishes in both the discus (36.55m) and the hammer (41.69m) in a home meet ... Her mark in the hammer was a new personal best.
 
2018 (Dartmouth): Competed eight times during her freshman outdoor season and threw the shot put at both the Ivy League and New England Championships … Threw the shot put, the discus and the hammer during the year; Black and Gold Challenge (3/16-3/17): Recorded a distance of 36.20 meters in the hammer on the first day of a meet at UCF to open the outdoor season … On the second day of the meet tallied marks of 11.99 meters in the shot put and 38.08 meters in the discus; FSU Relays (3/23): Recorded throws of 36.98 meters in the discus and 36.66 meters in the hammer at Florida State; Mark Young Invitational (4/7): In a meet at Yale was the runner-up in the shot put (13.17m) and came in fifth in the discus (35.89m); Hartford, UMass-Lowell and Vermont (4/13): Competed in both the shot put (12.60m) and the discus (34.43m) in a home quadrangular meet; Virginia Challenge (4/21): Came in 11th in the shot put with a throw of 12.67 meters while facing strong competition at the Virginia meet; UMass Pre-Conference Invitational (4/28): Came in eighth in the shot put (12.06m); Heptagonal Championships (5/6): Finished 13th in the shot put at the conference meet and produced a throw of 12.27 meters; New England Championships (5/12): Came in ninth in the shot put (12.87) in her final competition of the season.
 
BEFORE VILLANOVA

Shelton High School: Earned four varsity letters in track & field and three in volleyball during her scholastic career … Two-time state champion in the shot put both indoors and outdoors, as well as a state champion in the discus … Two-time Connecticut State Open champion outdoors in the shot put and the discus … Earned all-state honors twice for both the indoor and outdoor seasons … Three-time Southern Connecticut Conference (SCC) champion for the shot put indoors and outdoors as well as the discus … Was twice named to the New Haven All-Area Outdoor & Indoor Team … Earned all-conference honors both indoors and outdoors three straight years from her sophomore through senior seasons … Named the Outstanding Athlete at the SCC Championships … Inducted to the National Honor Society and the Spanish National Honor Society … Was the Vice President of the Student Council.
 
Personal: Born 11/11/99 in Shelton, Conn. … Younger of two children of Ambrose and Jacqui Stevens … Has an older brother, Tyler (22) … Enjoys reading and playing volleyball in her spare time … Graduated from Dartmouth and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Counseling and Clinical Mental Health at Villanova … Chose to further her education at Villanova for the school’s sense of community as well as its strong academic and athletic programs.