Crowley Wins UAA Title, Spartans Place Fifth in Conference

Case Western Reserve University sophomore runner Donovan Crowley won a University Athletic Association Championship to lead the Spartan men's track and field team to a fifth-place finish at the 2026 UAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships at DiSanto Field in Cleveland on Sunday.

Crowley won the conference title in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 3:51.47, the second-fastest time in program history. Overall, CWRU scored 94.5 points at the two-day meet to place fifth out of seven teams.

UAA Champion

• Crowley

• 1,500-meter run, 3:51.47

• First career title

All-UAA

• Crowley

• 1,500-meter run, first, 3:51.47

• Second career outdoor, third overall

• Sophomore Charlie Stipanovich

• 400-meter dash, second, 48.42 seconds

• First career

• Junior Tanush Anand

• High jump, second, 2.00 meters

• First career

• Senior Connor Evans

• Discus throw, second, 43.62 meters

• First career

Top Eight Finishes

• First-year Chance Krenzer

• 800-meter run, eighth, 1:59.16

• 4x400-meter relay, fourth, 3:19.52

• First-year Antonio Sidoti

• 4x100-meter relay, sixth, 42.59 seconds

• 100-meter dash, seventh, 10.86 seconds

• Crowley

• 4x400-meter relay, fourth, 3:19.52

• Senior Nathaniel Hahn

• 4x400-meter relay, fourth, 3:19.52

• Stipanovich

• 4x400-meter relay, fourth, 3:19.52

• Junior Toby Langsner

• Discus throw, fifth, 42.16 meters

• Sophomore Ishaan Solanki

• Javelin throw, fifth, 52.75 meters

• Junior Jacob Slater

• 5,000-meter run, fifth, 14:49.76

• Junior Matthew Bezuneh

• 4x100-meter relay, sixth, 42.59 seconds

• Sophomore Artin Fazeli

• 4x100-meter relay, sixth, 42.59 seconds

• Senior Troy Olson

• 4x100-meter relay, sixth, 42.59 seconds

• First-year Garrett Myers

• Discus throw, seventh, 41.57 meters

• Sophomore Luke Rabacs

• 400-meter hurdles, seventh, 57.27 seconds

Final Team Standings

• Chicago, 195.0 points

• Emory, 162.0 points

• WashU, 148.0 points

• Carnegie Mellon, 143.0 points

• CWRU, 94.0 points

• Brandeis, 42.0 points

• NYU, 27.0 points

Spartan Notes

• Stipanovich recorded the third-fastest time in program history in the 400-meter dash

• Sidoti added the fourth-best time ever by a Spartan in the 100-meter dash

• Anand had the fifth-best mark in the high jump in program history

• Crowley is the second-ever Spartan to win the conference title in the 1,500-meter run and the first since Logan Singer in 2023

• CWRU had an All-UAA finish in the 400-meter dash for the second consecutive season, and Stipanovich's runner-up finish is the best by a Spartan in the event since Nathaniel Wahner won the race in 2017

• Anand is the first Spartan to earn All-UAA honors in the high jump since 2015 when Graeham Heil was the runner-up

• Evans became the first member of the CWRU men's track and field team in 13 years to earn All-UAA honors in the discus throw. Izzy Budnick finished second in 2013

• Case Western Reserve placed fifth in the league for the fifth consecutive season

Up Next

CWRU will take a week off from competition before a contingent of student-athletes will attempt to improve their marks and times for postseason qualification. Their first chance will be at the Harrison Dillard Twilight in Berea, Ohio, on May 7 and 8.