Villanova Univeristy Athletics

CAREER HONORS AND AWARDS
All-CAA Team	2023-24
CRCA Scholar-Athlete	2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24
PhillySIDA Academic All-Area	2021-22
CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll	Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024
Athletic Director's Honor Roll	Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024

Villanova Career: Finished career as an All-CAA Team selection and three-time CRCA Scholar Athlete … Started with the Novice 8 boat before moving up to 2V8 and then the V8 over the last two seasons.
 
2023-24: Named to the All-CAA Team at final conference championship … Appeared in every event on the year, logging 11 races, mostly with the V8 … Posted two top-three finishes with the V4 … Third with the V4 at the Navy Day Regatta (15:44.34) and earned silver with the V4A at the Head of the Schuylkill (14:57.645) for the program’s first medal at the regatta since 2017 … Part of a V8 boat that finished third in the A finals at the NYRA Invitational (7:19.063) … Five-seat for the V8’s win at the Bucknell Invite (6:43.15) … Won the head-to-head with Stockton’s V8 in 7:09.63 … Posted a fourth-place finish in the V8 Grand Finals at the CAA Championship (7:04.546).

2022-23: Served as co-captain for the team this season, racing in every event … Helped the V4A team to a 17^th place finish (14:24.97) and the V8A shell to a 13^th place finish (13:20.60) at Navy Day … Competed again with the 4s at the Head of the Schuylkill for a ninth-place time of 14:44.858 before a seventh-place showing in the Championship 8s (13:18.897) … Turned in a fifth-place showing with the V8 at the Dos Hosea with a time of 6:55.88 … Crossed in 7:09.11 with the V8 for a third-place finish in the Knecht Cup Petite Final … Part of a V8 group that was sixth in the Grand Final at the Mason Invite with a time of 7:07.8 … Part of the V8 that posted a 5:57.97 winning time against UConn in head-to-head action and finished second to Bucknell in 6:03.73 … Helped the V8 to a fourth-place finish at the CAA Championships, crossing in 7:31.762.
 
2021-22: Part of Varsity Eight boat that was named CAA Boat of the Week in back-to-back weeks, the first such honors for the program … Competed in six events on the year, all with the Varsity Eight … Helped Villanova to a fourth-place showing at the CAA Championships with a time of 6:46.25 … Left the Mason Invitational in the winning V8 boat that clocked in at 6:30.5 … Swept the dual with UConn and Eastern Michigan with victorious times of 6:56.30 and 6:39.28, respectively … Group posted a fifth-place 6:43.47 at the Knecht Cup … Finished second in the dual with Drexel and La Salle in 7:26.6.
 
2020-21: Saw action in all five events that Villanova competed in during the spring season … Raced in the varsity four boat which had a thrilling win over Delaware in a dual competition in the season opener … Villanova finished with a winning time of 8:25.6 and pulled ahead in the final 250 meters to edge the Blue Hens by nine-tenths of a second at the finish line … Raced in the third varsity eight lineup at the Kerr Cup where the Wildcats tallied a first place finish, posting a time of 7:04.2 and edging runner-up Drexel and the rest of the field by one-tenth of a second … Rowed in the 2-seat of the second varsity eight boat at both George Mason and the Kelly Cup … In the competition at George Mason the Wildcats came in first in their heat in 6:47.8 to hold off Jacksonville by seven-tenths of a second … Villanova then moved on to the grand final and came in third in 6:59.7 … At the Kelly Cup the 2V8 squad finished third in 7:01.3 and beat Penn and Saint Joseph’s in the race … Rowed in the bow seat of the 2V8 boat at the CAA Championship where the team posted a third place finish with a time of 6:56.42.
 
2019-20: Competed twice in the Wildcats novice eight lineup during her freshman campaign … Villanova came in 15^th in the College Frosh/Novice Eights while facing experienced competition at the Head of the Schuylkill and tallied a third place finish in the Frosh/Novice Eights at the Metro Cup Regatta.
 
Maine West High School: Earned three varsity letters in track & field as a thrower … Competed in the shot put and discus events … Conference champion in both events and the track & field team’s MVP as a senior in 2019 … Named a National Merit Scholarship Commended Student … Inducted to the National Honor Society.
 
Personal: Born 3/14/01 in Des Plaines, Ill. … One of six children of Mark and Jean Dempsey … Siblings are Emma (24), Hana (19), Peter (15), Maya (14) and Leia (11) … Enjoys reading and painting in her spare time … Chose to attend Villanova because she loved the campus and the positivity from the people she met while visiting … Environmental Science major.