Villanova Univeristy Athletics

CAREER COLLEGIATE RESULTS

Fifth year collegian who graduated from New Hampshire and joins the Wildcats as a graduate student in 2024-25 … Anchored Villanova's 4x800 meter relay team at the Penn Relays and led off the team's distance medley relay ... Has competed individually in the 400 meters and the 800 meters during the 2025 outdoor season ... Four-time conference champion and two-time NCAA East Preliminary qualifier during her undergraduate career … Won an individual America East title in the 800 meters and anchored three conference champion 4x800 meter relay squads … Advanced to the national quarterfinal round of the 800 meters in 2021 … Earned all-conference honors in cross country … Ran two unattached races during the 2024 cross country season and was the individual champion of the Haverford Invitational ... Member of the National College Athlete Honor Society ... Named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll for the Fall 2024 semester.
 

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PERSONAL BESTS
200 Meters	26.32	Vermont Quad Meet (4.8.2023)
400 Meters	56.58	Vermont Quad Meet (4.8.2023)
500 Meters	1:14.03	America East Championships (2.26.2022)
800 Meters	2:03.93	Larry Ellis Invitational (5.2.2025)
1000 Meters	2:47.25	Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener (12.3.2022)
1200 Meters (relay)	3:23.57	Penn Relays (4.25.2025)
1500 Meters	4:25.07	Colonial Relays (3.31.2023)
Mile	4:48.60	Eagle Elite Invitational (1.20.2023)
5000 Meters (XC)	17:48.4	Haverford Invitational (10.25.2024)
6000 Meters (XC)	22:01.4	Paul Short Run (9.30.2022)

 

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CAREER HONORS AND AWARDS
2023 OUTDOOR
America East Champion	800 Meters
America East Champion	4x800 Meter Relay (Anchor)
2022 INDOOR
America East Champion	4x800 Meter Relay (Anchor)
2021 OUTDOOR
America East Champion	4x800 Meter Relay (Anchor)
America East Bronze Medalist	800 Meters
2020 CROSS COUNTRY
All-America East	Second Team
ACADEMIC HONORS
Athletic Director's Honor Roll	Fall 2024
America East All-Academic Team	2023 Outdoor

 

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BEFORE VILLANOVA

University of New Hampshire: Four-time America East champion and five-time conference medalist on the track during her undergraduate career … Won the America East title in the 800 meters outdoors in 2023 … Anchored three champion 4x800 meter relay teams at the conference championships, including once indoors in 2022 and twice outdoors in 2021 and 2023 … Bronze medalist in the 800 meters outdoors in 2021 … Two-time qualifier for the NCAA East Preliminary outdoors in the 800 meters and advanced to the national quarterfinal round as a first year collegian in 2021 … Second team all-conference performer in cross country in her first collegiate race and was a two-time top-15 finisher at the America East cross country meet … Won gold medals in the 1500 meters and the 4x800 meter relay at the New England Championships in 2023 … Member of the Commissioner’s Honor Roll and the National College Athlete Honor Society.
 
Personal: Daughter of Patrick and Dorrie Martell … Has two siblings, Annemarie and Charles, who were each collegiate athletes … Overlapped with both siblings at New Hampshire and was a teammate of her sister on the 2021-22 cross country and track & field rosters … Sister was a distance runner at Vermont and New Hampshire … Brother competed on the Nordic skiing teams at St. Michael’s College and UNH … Graduated from New Hampshire as a Justice Studies and Psychology major … Enrolled in graduate school at Villanova and is pursuing a Master's degree in Political Science … Chose to continue her studies and career at Villanova for the campus and its proximity to Philadelphia, as well as for the energy and work ethic of the women on the team.