2025-26 Women's Track & Field Roster

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Tilly O'Connor

  • Academic Year Junior
  • Position Distance
  • Hometown Spring Lake, N.J.
  • Highschool St. Rose
  • INFLCR tilly-oconnor

Biography

CAREER COLLEGIATE RESULTS

Has developed into a key member of the Villanova distance group during her collegiate career and is off to a sensational start to the 2025-26 competition seasons ... Recorded the ninth-fastest indoor time in school history in the 5000 meters (15:56.27) in Boston in December 2025 ... That mark puts her 10th overall in school history in the 5K ...The performance came on the heels of a 2025 cross country season in which she garnered first team All-BIG EAST accolades and Mid-Atlantic All-Region honors for the first time in her career ... Posted the seventh and eighth fastest times for a 6K cross country race in the Villanova record book in consecutive races at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional and the NCAA Championships ... Top finisher in the Wildcats lineup in each of the last four meets of the 2025 season and helped Villanova earn a team berth to the NCAA Championships ... During the 2024-25 competition season, she recorded personal bests in the 800 meters (2:11.81), 1500 meters (4:19.73), mile (4:47.14) and 3000 meters (9:29.84) ... Garnered the first two All-BIG EAST accolades of her career in 2025, running the 800 meter leg of the distance medley relay indoors and the third leg of the 4x800 meter relay outdoors ... Both relays earned silver medals at the conference championships ... Tallied her best individual BIG EAST finish outdoors in 2025 when she placed fifth in the final of the 1500 meters ... Two-time member of the BIG EAST All-Academic Team and three-time selection to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll.
 
 
PERSONAL BESTS
400 Meters 1:01.28 High School
800 Meters (relay) 2:11.66 BIG EAST Championships (5.17.2025)
800 Meters (open) 2:11.81 Penn Challenge (3.22.2025)
1000 Meters 2:53.35 Villanova Invitational (1.20.2024)
1500 Meters 4:19.73 Larry Ellis Invitational (5.2.2025)
Mile 4:47.14 Penn Classic (2.8.2025)
3000 Meters 9:29.84 BIG EAST Championships (3.1.2025)
5000 Meters 15:56.27 Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener (12.6.2025)
3 Miles (XC) 17:25.2 Main Line Invitational (9.15.2023)
4000 Meters (XC) 15:23.0 High School
5000 Meters (XC) 17:35.0 High School
6000 Meters (XC) 19:41.8 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional (11.14.2025)
 
 
CAREER HONORS AND AWARDS
2025 CROSS COUNTRY
Mid-Atlantic All-Region
All-BIG EAST (First Team)
BIG EAST Female Athlete of the Week (October 20)
2025 OUTDOOR
All-BIG EAST 4x800 Meter Relay (3rd)
2025 INDOOR
All-BIG EAST Distance Medley Relay (800m)
ACADEMIC HONORS
BIG EAST All-Academic Team 2023-24, 2024-25
Athletic Director's Honor Roll Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025
 
 
CAREER NCAA RESULTS
2025 CROSS COUNTRY (COLUMBIA, MO. | GANS CREEK CROSS COUNTRY COURSE)
Date Distance Time Place
November 22 6000 Meters 19:45.6 78th
 
 
CAREER BIG EAST RESULTS
2025 CROSS COUNTRY (ASHLAND, NEB. | OLSSON CROSS COUNTRY COURSE AT MAHONEY STATE PARK)
Date Distance Time Place
October 31 6000 Meters 19:52.7 2nd
2025 OUTDOOR (STORRS, CONN. | GEORGE J. SHERMAN FAMILY SPORTS COMPLEX)
Date Event Time Place
May 16 1500 Meters (Preliminary Heats) 4:26.26 2nd
May 17 1500 Meters (Final) 4:20.06 5th
May 17 4x800 Meter Relay (3rd) 8:43.85 2nd
2025 INDOOR (CHICAGO, ILL. | DR. CONRAD WORRILL TRACK AND FIELD CENTER AT GATELY PARK)
Date Event Time Place
February 28 Distance Medley Relay (800m) 11:24.25 2nd
March 1 3000 Meters 9:29.84 10th
2024 CROSS COUNTRY (LEESBURG, VA. | MORVEN PARK)
Date Distance Time Place
November 1 6000 Meters 21:43.12 28th
2024 OUTDOOR (VILLANOVA, PA. | VILLANOVA STADIUM)
Date Event Time Place
May 10 1500 Meters (Preliminary Heats) 4:29.97 11th
May 11 1500 Meters (Final) 4:31.14 9th
2023 CROSS COUNTRY (KENOSHA, WIS. | WAYNE DANNEHL NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY COURSE)
Date Distance Time Place
October 28 6000 Meters 21:41.27 26th
 
 
BEFORE VILLANOVA

Personal: Biology major.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Freshman

    Distance

  • 2024-25Sophomore

    Distance

  • 2025-26Junior

    Distance