The Case Western Reserve University men's and women's track and field teams excelled at the 55th Annual Sparky Adams Invitational hosted by Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, on Friday and Saturday in the teams' final meet before the outdoor conference championship.

CWRU won six of the 39 events contested at the meet across the two days.

The Spartans swept the pole vault, with sophomore jumper Holly Schreiber clearing 3.53 meters for the women's team and junior jumper Anthony DeCarlo clearing 4.35 meters for the men's team. First-year jumper Artin Fazeli placed second in the event with a mark of 4.20 meters. Case Western Reserve also placed first and second in the javelin throw as first-year thrower Chance Schreier had the furthest toss of 43.51 meters and first-year thrower Joshua Kue finished second with a mark of 41.46 meters.

In the 400-meter hurdles, junior sprinter/hurdler Josh Bates placed first in 56.14 seconds and graduate student hurdler/jumper Yusuf Shaaban earned the bronze in 57.10 seconds. Bates, Shaaban, senior runner Hans Holst, and first-year sprinter Madhan Manikandaswamy won the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 3:24.06. Finally, junior sprinter/hurdler Joshua Park crossed the line first in the finals of the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.53 seconds.

Manikandaswamy and first-year sprinter Charlie Stipanovich placed second and third, respectively, in the 400-meter dash with times of 49.93 seconds and 50.13 seconds. In the 800-meter run, junior runner Arianna Holbrook was the runner-up in 2:14.96, the second-fastest time in program history.

In the field, first-year throwers Sarah Viveiros and Bailey Bowen finished second and third in the javelin throw with marks of 34.69 meters and 34.51 meters. Graduate student thrower Michaela Burkhauser tossed the discus 43.95 meters to place second, and graduate student thrower Ailean Duffie recorded a personal-best mark in the hammer throw of 50.27 meters to finish as the runner-up. Bounding 10.53 meters in the triple jump was senior jumper Jordan Su who finished second with that mark.

For the men's team, first-year jumper Krish Gupta placed third in the long jump with a leap of 6.39 meters, and sophomore jumper Tanush Anand took third in the triple jump by traveling 13.11 meters. In the 1,500-meter run, junior runner Ayla Grabenbauer placed third after crossing the line at 4:46.35.

CWRU will next head to New York for the 2025 University Athletic Association Outdoor Track and Field Championships, hosted by NYU at Icahn Stadium in Manhattan, New York. The two-day meet begins on Saturday, April 26 at 9 a.m.

Spartan Notes

• Overall, the CWRU women's team placed third out of 12 with 111.0 points, and the Spartan men's team scored the second-most points (134.5) out of 11 teams
• Burkhauser's mark in the discus throw was third-best in program history and currently ranks 21st in Division III and first in the UAA
• Duffie moved up to fifth on the program all-time leaderboard in the hammer throw with her mark 32nd in the country and first in the conference
• With her mark in the pole vault, Schreiber moved to 47th in Division III and third in the UAA
• Holbrook missed the school record in the 800-meter run by 0.32 seconds, however, her time does rank 50th in Division III