Villanova Univeristy Athletics

CAREER HONORS AND AWARDS
All-BIG EAST Second Team	2025
BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week	2025: March 24
BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll	2024: February 19, March 18
IWLCA Academic Honor Roll	2024, 2025
BIG EAST All-Academic Team	2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25
Athletic Director's Honor Roll	Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

2025: Provided strong play between the pipes in Vilanova's most successful BIG EAST season ever … Earned All-BIG EAST Second Team as the 13-game starter who accumulated an eight-win, 700-plus minute season … Now ranks third in Villanova history for goalkeeper wins with 17 and seventh with 243 saves … Became the full-time starter on March 1 against Stanford with nine saves … Did not allow a single goal in 30 minutes of play versus Lafayette … Made 12 saves in the BIG EAST opener opposite Connecticut, repeating the feat nearly a month later vs. Richmond … Selected as BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week after the opening week of conference play … Racked up a .643 save percentage in a win at Xavier … Picked up the first BIG EAST Tournament victory ever for a Wildcat goalkeeper.

2024: Played in 12 games with 11 nods as the starting netminder … Earned BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll twice in her junior season … Made 72 saves on the year with two double-digit save performances … Played 549 minutes in the cage with a 4-6 overall record as a junior … Made a career-high 12 saves as the winning goalie against Bucknell … Stopped 11 shots at Lafayettte in an 8-7 victory.

2023: Earned a season high 75 minutes against SDSU.. Faced 35 shots and made 17 saves against Maryland... Had a GA/AVG of 11.42 and a SV % of .437. Earned 5 wins and 4 losses for the Wildcats. Scooped up 25 ground balls and two caused turnovers. 

2022: As a freshman, appeared in two games as goalkeeper. Against La Salle (3/9) she recorded her first career save in 8:27 of action. At Butler (4/30) she played 30 minutes, recording three saves.

Chatham High School: Three sport athlete playing soccer, ice hockey and lacrosse… 2021 First Team All-Conference… 2021 First Team All-County… 2021 MVP of the Morris County tournament.

Personal: Born 03/21/2003 in Chatham, NJ … Daughter of Billy and Jill Gallagher… Has three siblings, Libbey, Bill and Jack… Father played soccer at Villanova… Chose to attend Villanova for the academic reputation, school spirit and family feeling… Declared major in communications.