The men’s and women’s track and field teams finished as the conference runner-up over the weekend at the BIG EAST Championships in Ocean Point, New York, and now must reckon with falling short by extremely close margins.
“It was very close on both sides, and we knew it was going to be a battle all the way to the end,” head coach Bert Rogers said in a press release. “Unfortunately, we were just a little short on both sides, but we left everything out there.”
Ten different athletes were crowned as individual champions for Marquette, but Villanova edged the men’s and women’s team in the Championship’s final two events, the 4×400 relay and the high jump.