GENEVA, Ohio—History was made at this weekend's BIG EAST Indoor Track & Field Championships, as the Villanova women's team won its record 16^th team title and did so with the highest team score in the 37-year history of the meet.  Thanks to an astonishing nine event titles, the Wildcats scored 194 team points and repeated as conference champions with a 72-point margin of victory.  Junior sprinter Trudy-Ann Williamson (Kingston, Jamaica) shared the Outstanding Track Performer award and also tied for being the meet's highest point scorer, while head coach Gina Procaccio and her staff accepted the BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year trophy.
 
Villanova had already racked up 71 team points on Friday thanks in part to winning the distance medley relay, the pole vault and the pentathlon.  Saturday's action began with sophomore middle distance runner Rachel McArthur (Bristow, Va.) leading the Wildcats to a 1-2-3-4 sweep in the Mile, and the outcome at the top of the team standings was never in doubt after that. 
 
Williamson doubled up with individual victories in both the 60 meters and the 200 meters, junior sprinter McKenna Keegan (West Grove, Pa.) was the 800 meter champion and freshman Sanaä Barnes (Keller, Texas) won the high jump in the meet's final event.  Villanova added a win in the 4x800 meter relay with a lineup of senior Sammy Bockoven (Hudson, Ohio), freshman Taryn O'Neill (Lake Country, B.C.), freshman Reilly Siebert (Syosset, N.Y.) and senior Nicole Hutchinson (West Vancouver, B.C.).  The team had a total of 17 top-three finishes in the meet. 
 
Only one women's team in BIG EAST history has ever won as many as eight event titles in a single year.  Villanova has done it five times now, with this year's nine titles fitting in behind only the 11 champions in the inaugural BIG EAST meet in 1983 and the 10 titles the Wildcats won in 1985.  The team previously won eight events in 1993 and 2015. 
 
Williamson is the first Villanova women's runner to win both the 60 meters and the 200 meters.  She defended her title in the 60 meters with a winning time of 7.42, then returned to the track to win the 200 meters with a new personal best time of 24.13.  She joins former Wildcats sprinter Varonica Johnson as the only Villanova women to be indoor BIG EAST champions in the 200 meters.  Williamson also continued the Wildcats streak of winning at least a share of the Outstanding Track Performer award for a fourth consecutive season.  Her winning time of 24.13 in the 200 meters is the seventh-fastest indoor time in school history and puts her into third place on the all-time Villanova performance list in the event. 
 
The day began with a dominant sweep in the Mile, with McArthur being followed across the finish line by Hutchinson, O'Neill and junior Ann Campbell (Mission Hills, Kan.).  McArthur made a big kick on the final straightaway to cross the finish line in 4:38.35, while Hutchinson tallied a time of 4:38.70, O'Neill finished in 4:45.27 and Campbell was clocked in 4:50.23.  It is the second straight year that the Wildcats have swept the spots on the awards podium in the Mile. 
 
Keegan ran away with the race in the 800 meters to win in 2:07.08 and post a margin of victory of more than 2.5 seconds.  Siebert joined her on the podium with a third place finish and a time of 2:10.58, while Bockoven came in seventh in 2:14.41.  In the final distance event of the meet, graduate student Caroline Alcorta (Springfield, Va.) finished third in the 3000 meters with a time of 9:26.95 and freshman Lydia Olivere (Wilmington, Del.) was eighth (9:39.93).    
 
The performances by Bockoven during the course of the weekend were impressive.  She ran the 400 meter leg of the champion distance medley relay on Friday and also advanced on time out of the preliminary heats of the 800 meters with a time of 2:12.90.  After scoring in the 800 meter final on Saturday, she took the track again to lead off the 4x800 relay.  Villanova's lineup of Bockoven, O'Neill, Siebert and Hutchinson won the relay in 8:52.97 and finished more than five seconds ahead of runner-up Georgetown and the rest of the field. 
 
Junior sprinter Danielle Burns (Phoenix, Ariz.) scored in both the 60 meter hurdles and the 200 meters.  She was the runner-up in the hurdles with a time of 8.57 in her first race on Saturday, then came in fifth in the 200 meters in 24.88.  Sophomore Sarah Jones (Sewell, N.J.) added a fourth place finish in the hurdles (8.64) and junior Amari Onque-Shabazz (Plainfield, N.J.) was the fourth place finisher in the 400 meters (55.15). 
 
Barnes and Caroline Muller of DePaul were the only athletes out of 14 to compete in the high jump who cleared the bar at a height of 1.74 meters.  Barnes passed at several of the opening heights before coming into the competition with the bar at 1.71 meters.  She was successful on her initial attempts at that height and at 1.74 meters, then won the BIG EAST title when she made it over at 1.77 meters on her third try.  With the gold medal already assured, she missed on three tries at 1.80 meters.  Junior Sofia Calabrese (Edwards, Colo.), who was the runner-up in Friday's pentathlon, came in sixth in the high jump with a mark of 1.65 meters. 

Earlier in the day, junior Gloria Donou (East Brunswick, N.J.) recorded a personal best mark of 11.50 meters in the triple jump to record a fifth place finish in the event.  Junior Katie Ciccarone (Freehold, N.J.) came in ninth (11.08m) and senior Alex Patrick (Media, Pa.) was 12^th (10.20m).