PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Freshman middle distance runner Emily Robinson (Rogers, Ark.) won the 800 meters and freshman thrower Faith Haught (Payson, Ariz.) finished first in the discus as Villanova competed in the Philadelphia Big 5 Meet on Saturday afternoon. A group of nine Wildcats competed in five individual running events, three field events and the 4x400 meter relay during the local meet at Franklin Field.
 
Robinson won the 800 meters with a personal best time of 2:14.83 which was just under a tenth of a second faster than her high school PR of 2:14.92. Sophomore Kate Flynn (Gray, Tenn.) also competed in the 800 meters and finished fourth with a personal best time of 2:25.83. Flynn has lowered her top mark in the 800 meters in each of her first two races of the outdoor season, including the Penn Challenge two weeks ago followed by Saturday's race.
 
In the throwing events Haught recorded a personal best in the discus for the second straight competition. She throw a winning distance of 42.63 meters, exactly one meter further than in her collegiate debut at the Penn Challenge last month. Haught is ranked seventh on Villanova's all-time performance list in the discus and she also threw the hammer for 33.20 meters on Saturday in her debut in that event. Senior Emily Galvin (Pitman, N.J.) was the runner-up in the hammer with a mark of 52.09 meters.
 
Junior Alexis Martin (Gaithersburg, Md.) ran both the 100 meters and the 200 meters in Saturday's meet and posted times of 12.47 and 25.69, respectively. Freshman Alex Stasichin (Massapequa, N.Y.) recorded a time of 58.90 in the 400 meters and sophomore Marcella Krautzel (Kennett Square, Pa.) tallied a personal best time of 5:00.91 in the 1500 meters. The final track event of the day for the Wildcats was the 4x400 meter relay in which Villanova came in second with a time of 4:05.71.
 
In the one field event aside from the throws, freshman Taylor Woodeshick (Nescopeck, Pa.) cleared a height of 1.60 meters in the high jump and sophomore multi-event athlete Caroline Carlson (Miami, Fla.) had a successful attempt with the bar at 1.50 meters.