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The 2020 BIG EAST Indoor Championships are in the books and for the second consecutive season, the Butler Bulldogs had their most impressive performance in program history.
 
"To say we outdid ourselves at this meet would be an understatement," said Butler head coach Matt Roe. "Last year was the best program performance in school history and it pales in comparison to what we accomplished the last two days. There were countless clutch performances. Everyone was dialed in. It's amazing to think about how we leverage our resources. Pound for pound these are two championship squads. I couldn't be prouder of everyone involved."
 
Overall, Butler had:

• Six individual gold medal winners,
• Four athletes become BIG EAST Champions,
• Six Butler school records broken,
• Fourteen Butler athletes become medalists in their events,
• Twenty-six All BIG EAST performers,
• Nineteen personal bests set,
• Fifteen new all-time Butler top-ten performances, and
• The best program BIG EAST Indoor finish in school history with the highest combined point total in school history.

 
As a team, Butler finished third overall in women's competition and fourth overall in the men's, with Villanova winning both the men's and women's competitions for the third consecutive year.
 
Historic Men's Performances
The Butler men had three of the top four for both the highest point earners as well as the individual awards at this historic meet for Butler.
 
Wade Walder successfully defended his title as the men's heptathlon BIG EAST Champion and his title of Men's Most Outstanding Performer in Field Events with his score of 5,413. He was also the Men's High Point Performer of the Meet with 25 points scored.
 
Walder won every heptathlon event except for the 1,000-meters. In addition to the heptathlon win, Walder scored points in the 60-meter hurdles with a sixth-place finishing time of 8.44 and a seventh-place finish of 13.47m in the shot put. All of this following the school record-breaking pole vault win of 4.85m on Sunday.
 
Euan Makepeace was unanimously selected as Men's Most Outstanding Performer in Track Events as he defended his 3,000-meter BIG EAST Champion crown with a winning time of 8:15.63. Like Walder, Makepeace won two individual titles with his 5,000-meter win coming on Sunday. Makepeace scored the third-most points on the men's side of the meet with 20.
 
Sam Robinson reached the podium in the triple jump with a personal-best mark of 14.35m. Robinson also scored points for Butler in the high jump by finishing sixth clearing a mark of 1.90m. Yesterday afternoon, Robinson won the long jump by reaching a mark of 7.38m. He also had the fourth most men's points scored with 19.5.
 
Women's Relay Teams Break Records, Come Up Clutch
Both of Butler's women's relay teams broke school records and came up huge as their third-place finishes kept the Butler women in third place overall in team scoring.
 
The 4x800 team of Madi Provo, Morgan Walsh, Josephine Thestrup, and Camille Hines finished in 8:59.69 just ahead of the Providence team that finished in 8:59.79
 
Rebecca Collester, Maddie Miller, Carson Fields, and Lily Hess ran in the 4x400 and finished with a time of 3:47.28 again just barely ahead of the fourth-place finisher Marquette's time of 3:47.74 and sealed the third-place finish overall for the Butler women.
 
Niki Ezeh Wins Women's Most Outstanding Co‐Performers in Field Events
Ezeh was named the Women's Most Outstanding Co‐Performers in Field Events after her school record-breaking score of 3,678 to win the pentathlon Sunday. She would add a fourth-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.75 to add to her point total on Monday.
 
Also Scoring for the Men on Monday:
Luke Hofrichter finished fourth in the heptathlon with a personal best score of 4,013. Along the way, Hofrichter set personal bests in the 60- and 1000-meters with times of 7.33 and 3:01.61 respectively.
 
Chandler McGaha ran a personal best time of 1:51.60 in the men's 800-meters. Kenneth Rowe of Georgetown won the event with a time of 1:50.21.
 
In his first BIG EAST Championship, Matthew Wigelsworth finished the mile in 4:20.81, good for fifth overall.
 
Simon Bedard was also running in his first BIG EAST Championship; he finished sixth in the 3,000-meters with a time of 8:19.23.
 
Both Butler men's relay teams scored points, as the 4x800 group of Trey Harris, Nate Lantz, McGaha, and Wigelsworth finished in fifth with a time of 7:40.55. The 4x400 group of Connor Fuller, Jake Bowers, Nick Robie, and Robinson finished seventh with a time of 3:28.26.
 
Also Scoring for the Women on Monday:
 
In the 800-meters, a pair of Bulldogs scored points with Hines taking the silver with a time of 2:11.91. Morgan Walsh finished in seventh with a time of 2:14.53. Georgetown's Olivia Arizin won with a time just ahead of Hines at 2:11.19.
 
A day after breaking the Butler women's 60-meter dash time in the preliminaries, Fields, and Hess each scored points for Butler by finishing fourth and fifth with extremely close times of 7.743 and 7.746 respectively. Collester finished eighth overall with a time of 7.84, also scoring a point for Butler.
 
Fields and Hess would continue their impressive Championships performances in the 200-meters as they would each score points. Field's personal best finish of 24.54 was fifth, and Hess' time of 24.61 was seventh.
 
Nina Hilt scored in two events on Monday with a fifth-place finish of 8.76 in the 60-meter hurdles and a sixth-place high jump finish with a mark of 1.55m. Karmen Koch joined her in the high jump and finished fifth with a mark of 1.60m.
 
Corrina Pena and Katherine Olsen took the sixth and seventh spots in the women's mile with times of 4:58.90 and 5:00.37 respectively.
 
Emily Royston (9:43.71) finished eighth in the 3,000-meters a day after being the runner up in the 5,000-meters.
 
Women (Final)
1) Villanova -- 134 points
2) Marquette -- 112
3) Butler -- 99
4) St. John's -- 98
 5) DePaul -- 95
6) Georgetown -- 84
7) Providence -- 58
8) Xavier -- 22
 
Men (Final)
1) Villanova -- 186
2) Marquette -- 163
3) DePaul -- 123
4) Butler -- 93
5) Georgetown -- 91
6) Providence -- 27
7) Xavier -- 9
 
Men's Coaching Staff of the Year: Villanova *
Men's Most Outstanding Performer in Field Events: Wade Walder, Butler
Men's Most Outstanding Performer in Track Events: Euan Makepeace, Butler *
Men's High Point Performer of the Meet: Wade Walder, Butler (25.0 points)
 
Women's Coaching Staff of the Year: Villanova *
Women's Most Outstanding Co-Performers in Field Events: Jade Gates, DePaul and Niki Ezeh, Butler
Women's Most Outstanding Co-Performers in Track Events: Abbey Wheeler, Providence and Leah Anderson St. John's
Women's High Point Co-Performers of the Meet: Leah Anderson, St. John's (22.5 points)
 
* denotes unanimous selection