2025 Women's Cross Country Roster

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Margaret Carroll

  • Class Fifth Year
  • Hometown Mount Wolf, Pa.
  • Highschool Northeastern
  • INFLCR margaret-carroll

Biography

CAREER COLLEGIATE RESULTS

Comes off a 2024-25 competition season in which she was an All-BIG EAST performer in cross country, indoors and outdoors ... Had one of the best events of her career at the 2025 outdoor BIG EAST Championships where she was the bronze medalist in the 10000 meters and finished fifth in the 5000 meters ... Recorded PRs in both events, including 34:17.69 in the 10K and 16:14.66 in the 5K ... The 10K time cut nearly a full minute off the time she had run at the conference championships one year earlier, while her 5K time was her third PR of the 2025 outdoor campaign ... Anchored the Wildcats distance medley relay team to a podium finish (silver medal) and All-BIG EAST honors indoors for the second straight year ... Tallied a career best 19th place finish at the BIG EAST Championships in cross country to earn second team all-conference recognition ... Four-time All-BIG EAST honoree during her career and is a seven-time BIG EAST scorer on the track ... Has established PRs during her collegiate career at every distance from 1500 meters through 10K ... Three-time selection to the BIG EAST All-Academic Team and has been named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll in all seven of her semesters on campus.
 
 
PERSONAL BESTS
800 Meters 2:21.52 High School
1500 Meters 4:25.82 Virginia Challenge (4.18.2025)
Mile 4:45.86 Penn Classic (2.8.2025)
1600 Meters (relay) 4:47.79 BIG EAST Championships (3.1.2025)
3000 Meters 9:19.45 Eagle Elite Invitational (2.14.2025)
5000 Meters 16:14.66 BIG EAST Championships (5.16.2025)
10000 Meters 34:17.69 BIG EAST Championships (5.15.2025)
3 Miles (XC) 17:11.5 Main Line Invitational (9.15.2023)
5000 Meters (XC) 17:31.30 High School
6000 Meters (XC) 20:14.2 Princeton Fall Classic (10.18.2024)
 
 
CAREER HONORS AND AWARDS
2025 OUTDOOR
All-BIG EAST 10000 Meters
2025 INDOOR
All-BIG EAST Distance Medley Relay (1600m)
2024 CROSS COUNTRY
All-BIG EAST (Second Team)
2024 INDOOR
All-BIG EAST Distance Medley Relay (1600m)
ACADEMIC HONORS
BIG EAST All-Academic Team 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24
Athletic Director's Honor Roll Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024
 
 
CAREER BIG EAST RESULTS
2025 OUTDOOR (STORRS, CONN. | GEORGE J. SHERMAN FAMILY SPORTS COMPLEX)
Date Event Time Place
May 15 10000 Meters 34:17.69 3rd
May 16 5000 Meters 16:14.66 5th
2025 INDOOR (CHICAGO, ILL. | DR. CONRAD WORRILL TRACK AND FIELD CENTER AT GATELY PARK)
Date Event Time Place
February 28 Distance Medley Relay (1600m) 11:24.25 2nd
March 1 3000 Meters 9:24.77 7th
2024 CROSS COUNTRY (LEESBURG, VA. | MORVEN PARK)
Date Distance Time Place
November 1 6000 Meters 20:58.90 19th
2024 OUTDOOR (VILLANOVA, PA. | VILLANOVA STADIUM)
Date Event Time Place
May 9 10000 Meters 35:15.53 7th
May 10 5000 Meters 16:40.45 8th
2024 INDOOR (CHICAGO, ILL. | DR. CONRAD WORRILL TRACK AND FIELD CENTER AT GATELY PARK)
Date Event Time Place
February 23 Distance Medley Relay (1600m) 11:33.09 3rd
February 24 3000 Meters 9:36.59 12th
2023 CROSS COUNTRY (KENOSHA, WIS. | WAYNE DANNEHL NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY COURSE)
Date Distance Time Place
October 28 6000 Meters 21:44.21 27th
2022 CROSS COUNTRY (ATTLEBORO, MASS. | HIGHLAND PARK)
Date Distance Time Place
October 29 6000 Meters 21:39 32nd
 
 
BEFORE VILLANOVA

Northeastern High School: Competed on the cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field teams during her scholastic career … Earned four varsity letters in both cross country and outdoors … Two-time state cross country medalist, placing third as a junior and fifth as a senior … Won the District 3 individual title and helped lead her team to the district team championship as a senior … Holds her school’s cross country course record with a time of 17:31 … Indoor state medalist with an eighth place finish in the distance medley relay as a junior … Inducted to the National Honor Society as a senior.
 
Personal: Born 2/23/03 in Lancaster, Pa. … Youngest of four daughters of Timothy and Teresa Carroll … Has three older sisters: Anna (30), Martha (29) and Rachel (28) … Raises seeing eye guide dogs in her spare time … Chose to attend Villanova for its excellence in both academics and athletics, as well as for the sense of community in the track & field program … Mechanical Engineering major.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021Freshman

  • 2022Sophomore

  • 2023Junior

  • 2024Senior

  • 2025Fifth Year