CHICAGO, Ill.—Villanova scored points in 13 events over two days of competition at the 2025 BIG EAST Indoor Track and Field Championships Presented by JEEP and finished as the team runner-up with 113 points at Dr. Conrad Worrill Track and Field Center at Gately Park. It is the second time in the last three years and 15^th time overall that the Wildcats have finished on the team podium with a championship or runner-up performance at the conference championships.
 
Team seniors Tristan Bolinsky (Gordon, Pa.), Devon Comber (Ambler, Pa.), Sean Donoghue (Dublin, Ireland), Justin Miller (Colliersville, Tenn.) and Liam Murphy (Millstone, N.J.) were presented with the BIG EAST runner-up trophy during the awards ceremony that followed the meet. Murphy became the first Villanova athlete to win three straight 3000 meter titles earlier in the afternoon and tallied one of seven All-BIG EAST performances by the Wildcats in Saturday's action.
 
After anchoring the champion distance medley relay one night earlier, Murphy coasted to his 11^th career BIG EAST gold medal. He tallied a winning time of 8:00.63 in the 3000 meters and is now just the third men's athlete in school history with 11 or more conference titles. Murphy is tied with former NCAA cross country champion Patrick Tiernan (2013-16) who was also an 11-time BIG EAST champion, while standout sprinter Martin Booker (1983-86) holds the program record with 12 titles.
 
Sophomore middle distance runner Dan Watcke (Hinsdale, Ill.) owns the two fastest indoor times in Villanova history after a second place finish in the final of the 800 meters. Watcke broke the indoor school record with a time of 1:46.32 at Penn State earlier this season and nearly matched it on Saturday when he was clocked in 1:46.46. The mark was lower than the former BIG EAST meet record and Wildcats indoor program standard of 1:46.90 which Sean Dolan set just last season.
 
Villanova opened the day on Saturday with redshirt freshman Bailey Habler (Sydney, Australia) finishing second in the final of the mile. He posted a time of 4:06.05 and earned a silver medal in the first conference final of his career. Habler later anchored the Wildcats in the 4x800 meter relay which finished fifth with a time of 7:34.78.
 
It was a good day for the Villanova sprinters as the team tallied podium finishes in three individual events along with the 4x400 meter relay. Junior Amiri Prescod (Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago) recorded a season best time of 6.80 in the 60 meters and surged to a silver medal. He matched his own time which is tied for the fifth fastest in school history and was just five hundredths of a second off of his lifetime best in the event.
 
Sophomore Parker Turner (Los Angeles, Calif.) and junior Luke Rakowitz (Dallas, Texas) each earned the first individual conference medals of their career with third place finishes in the 200 meters and the 400 meters, respectively. Turner posted a time of 21.57 to make the awards podium, while his time is his second fastest indoor race behind only his mark of 21.47 in Friday's preliminary heats. Rakowitz also came off a PR on Friday in the 400 meters (48.14) and he was the bronze medalist on Saturday with a time of 48.29 in the final.
 
The final men's event to be contested was the 4x400 meter relay in which Rakowitz came back to anchor about two hours after the end of his 400 meter race. Villanova finished third in the relay in 3:15.06 with junior Jimmy Milgie (Wildwood, Mo.) leading off followed by sophomore Ethan Walls (Ridgefield, Conn.), freshman Liam Gluck (Beavercreek, Ohio) and Rakowitz.