Villanova Univeristy Athletics

CAREER COLLEGIATE RESULTS

Impacted the Villanova record book in nearly every throwing event in her two years competing for the Wildcats in 2024 and 2025 ... At the time of her graduation at the end of the 2025 outdoor season she ranked second in school history in the discus (52.31m), third in the weight throw (16.95m), fifth in the hammer (51.89m) and seventh in the shot put (13.97m) ... Top event is the discus in which she was a Division III national champion at Swarthmore prior to coming to Villanova as a graduate student ... Two-time qualifier for the NCAA East Preliminary while with the Wildcats ...  One of four athletes in school history to be a BIG EAST champion in women's discus and one of three to earn multiple BIG EAST medals in the event ... She was the 2024 conference champion and came in third a year later ... All of her liftime PRs in the four events she competed in came in a Villanova singlet, including her mark of 52.31 meters in the discus to open the 2025 outdoor season ... Six-time BIG EAST scorer overall and a three-time All-BIG EAST performer, including her two medals in the discus and a third place finish in the shot put at the 2024 indoor conference meet ... Recorded three of the top five and five of the top 11 discus throws in the Wildcats record book ... One of six athletes in school history and fourth indoors to make the BIG EAST Championships podium in shot put ... 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 ... Three-time member of the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team with one honor at Swarthmore and two at Villanova ... Was a national, regional and conference academic honoree at Swarthmore ... Two-time member of the BIG EAST All-Academic Team with the Wildcats and earned a spot on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll in all four 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, played college football as a defensive lineman at Kutztown ... Graduated from Swarthmore in 2023 as a Mathematics and Computer Science major … Enrolled in graduate school at Villanova to pursue her postgraduate degree in Software Engineering.