CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—The final day of competition at the Virginia Challenge was a successful one for Villanova on Saturday afternoon, with the Wildcats top result of the day being a personal best mark for junior Caroline Carlson (Miami, Fla.) in the long jump. Severe weather in the area pushed all of Saturday's events at Lannigan Field back to later in the afternoon, and Villanova's event schedule for the day eventually included the 100 meter hurdles, the 200 meters, the high jump and the long jump.
 
Carlson recorded a distance of 5.49 meters in the long jump to beat her previous top mark of 5.46 meters which had stood since her high school career. The multi-event athlete has enjoyed success in both the pentathlon and the heptathlon with the Wildcats, with her top collegiate mark in the long jump prior to Saturday's performance being 5.21 meters earlier this year during the indoor season. Carlson was in top form from the start on Saturday and recorded the mark of 5.49 meters on her first attempt of the day. She went on to record succeeding jumps of 5.21 meters and 5.22 meters.
 
Senior Faith Robinson (St. Louis Park, Minn.) also competed in the long jump on Saturday and registered a mark of 4.68 meters. The other field event on the Villanova docket was the high jump in which junior Roschell Clayton (Montego Bay, Jamaica) finished second with a height of 1.70 meters. She entered the competition with the bar set at 1.65 meters and made it over on her first jump of the day. Clayton was one of five athletes in a field of more than two dozen who continued on in the competition when the bar was raised to 1.70 meters. She made it over at that height on her second attempt to secure the runner-up finish.
 
The first event on the track after the long weather delay was the 100 meter hurdles in which senior sprinter Jane Livingston (Lancaster, Pa.) tallied a fourth place overall finish out of 30 competitors. Livingston came in third in her heat with a time of 13.63, while fifth year athlete Jada Thomas (Kingston, Jamaica) posted a time of 15.10 in an earlier section in her first hurdles race this season.
 
Freshman sprinter Myonica Jackson (Bolingbrook, Ill.) led a trio of Wildcats in the 200 meters with a time of 25.23. Livingston recorded a time of 25.74 and senior Alexis Martin (Gaithersburg, Md.) registered a time of 26.44.
 
Villanova will be in action this week at the Penn Relays.