Villanova Univeristy Athletics

CAREER COLLEGIATE RESULTS

A great talent who has impacted the Villanova record book in nearly every throwing event during her two years on campus ... At the 2024 outdoor BIG EAST Championships she became the fourth athlete in school history to be a conference champion in women's discus ... She was a five-time BIG EAST scorer spanning the 2024 indoor and outdoor championships, including an All-BIG EAST finish in the shot put indoors (bronze medal) and a sixth place result outdoors ... Finished sixth in the weight throw and seventh in the hammer ... Opened her 2025 outdoor season with the second-longest discus throw in school history while setting a new PR of 52.31 meters ... Through the end of March she owned three of the top five and five of the top 11 discus throws in the program record book ... Her ranks on the individual performance lists in school history include second in the discus,  third in weight throw (16.95m), fifth in hammer (51.89m) and seventh in shot put (13.97m) ... One of six athletes in school history and fourth indoors to make the BIG EAST Championships podium in shot put ... Former Division III national champion in the discus while competing for Swarthmore ... She was a two-time All-American at the Division III level and came to Villanova before the 2023-24 academic year as a graduate transfer with eligibility remaining both indoors and outdoors ... As an undergraduate at Swarthmore she was one of the top performers in Division III history in the discus (eighth all-time) … Six-time Centennial Conference individual champion … Competed in the shot put, the weight throw, the discus and the hammer … Majored in Mathematics and Computer Science at Swarthmore … Enrolled in graduate school at Villanova to study Software Engineering ... Two-time member of the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team with one honor each at Swarthmore and Villanova ... Was a national, regional and conference academic honoree at Swarthmore ... Named to the BIG EAST All-Academic Team in 2023-24 and has been a member of the Athletic Director's Honor Roll in all three of her semesters on campus.
 

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Swarthmore: Competed for the Garnet from 2019-23 and was a record-breaking performer in the throwing events … Was the Division III individual national champion in the discus in 2023 … Two-time All-American in the discus in 2022 and 2023 … Six-time all-region performer and six-time Centennial Conference individual champion … Nine-time All-Centennial honoree … As of the end of the 2023 season was ranked eighth in Division III history in the discus (51.46m) … Set Centennial Conference records in both the discus and the hammer … First athlete in conference history to top 50 meters in the hammer … Winner of the Gladys Irish Award presented to a Swarthmore senior woman who has best combined devotion to excellence in athletic performance with qualities of strong leadership and the pure enjoyment of sports activities … School record holder in the shot put, the discus and the hammer … Competed at the NCAA Championships indoors in the shot put (2022, 2023) and outdoors in both the shot put and the discus (2022, 2023) … As a senior was a College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree … Named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team as a junior … Four-time Academic All-Centennial selection and six-time Centennial Academic Honor Roll member … Voted the PhillySIDA Academic All-Area Co-Performer of the Year and landed a spot on the PhillySIDA Academic All-Area Team as a senior.
 
Personal: Daughter of Fred and Jessie Retter ... Siblings are Freddie and Ember ... Brother, Freddie, plays college football and is a defensive lineman at Kutztown ... Graduated from Swarthmore in 2023 as a Mathematics and Computer Science major … Pursuing her postgraduate degree in Software Engineering at Villanova.