2025-26 Women's Track & Field Roster

Stockton Photo, Inc.
Sideline Photos
Sideline Photos
Sideline Photos
Sideline Photos
Sideline Photos

Therese Trainer

  • Academic Year Junior
  • Position Distance
  • Hometown Havertown, Pa.
  • Highschool Academy of Notre Dame de Namur

Biography

CAREER COLLEGIATE RESULTS

Joins the track & field and cross country teams in 2025-26 as a transfer from Penn State ... Made her Villanova debut with three starts during the 2025 cross country season ... Local product who has had consistent success in cross country and the middle distance events on the track throughout her career.
 
 
PERSONAL BESTS
400 Meters (relay) 58.74 BIG EAST Championships (2.28.2026)
400 Meters (open) 59.57 High School
800 Meters (relay) 2:13.33 BIG EAST Championships (2.27.2026)
800 Meters (open) 2:13.43 High School
1000 Meters 2:52.79 Penn Elite (1.24.2026)
1500 Meters 4:44.80 High School
Mile 4:59.07 High School
4000 Meters (XC) 15:03.8 Temple Invitational (8.29.2025)
5000 Meters (XC) 18:37.40 High School
 
 
CAREER HONORS AND AWARDS
BIG EAST Champion Distance Medley Relay (800m)
All-BIG EAST 4x400 Meter Relay (Anchor)
All-BIG EAST Distance Medley Relay (800m)
 
 
CAREER BIG EAST RESULTS
2026 INDOOR (CHICAGO, ILL. | DR. CONRAD WORRILL TRACK AND FIELD CENTER AT GATELY PARK)
Date Event Time Place
February 27 Distance Medley Relay (800 Meters) 11:20.81 1st
February 28 4x400 Meter Relay (Anchor) 3:47.12 3rd
 
 
BEFORE VILLANOVA

Penn State: Member of the cross country and track & field teams at Penn State during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 academic years ... Two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection and was named a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar in 2024-25.

Academy of Notre Dame de Namur: Competed on the cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field and basketball teams during her scholastic career ... Earned multiple All-Interac, All-PAISSA and All-Delco athletic honors ... Winner of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame Delco Chapter Scholar Athlete of the Year award in 2023 ... Achieved Distinguished Honor Roll status academically all four years of high school ... Inducted into the National Honor Society.

Personal: Born 9/28/04 ... One of two children of Jim and Mary Ellen Trainer ... Has an older brother, Thomas, who was a member of the Villanova track & field and cross country teams from 2011-16 ... Father also ran collegiate track and cross country at Delaware Valley ... Finance major.