Case Western Reserve University senior Jacob Slater placed fourth overall to secure All-University Athletic Association First Team honors for the first time in his career and lead the Spartans to a fifth-place finish at the conference championship meet, hosted by the University of Chicago at the St. James Farm Forest Preserve in Warrenville, Illinois, on Saturday.

Team Results

• The Spartans, who received votes in the latest USTFCCCA poll, placed fifth overall with a score of 113.

• Ninth-ranked NYU won the meet with a score of 58, leading a tight pack of four teams at the top of the standings. Twelfth-ranked Carnegie Mellon followed with 61 points, with 18th-ranked Chicago placing third with 69 points. WashU, which at seventh in Division III was the highest-ranked UAA squad entering the meet, placed fourth overall with 76 points.

• Following CWRU in the standings were sixth-place Brandeis (181), seventh-place Emory (182), and eighth-place Rochester (215).

Individual Results

• Nine of the 10 Spartans who competed on Saturday recorded season-best times, with eight notching their career-best mark.

• Slater was fourth out of 78 total runners, recording a career-best 8K time of 24:28.58 to earn All-UAA First Team acclaim.

• Junior Donovan Crowley added his first career all-UAA cross country honor, placing ninth overall with a career-best mark of 24:42.21 to secure a spot on the all-conference second team.

• Sophomore Kian Schneeweis improved on his career-best mark by over a minute and 10 seconds, placing 25th with a time of 25:01.03.

• Junior Brendan Bradish was 40th in a time of 25:32.25, and was followed closely in 41st place by junior Adam Esa with a time of 25:33.23, both career bests, to complete the Spartans' scorers in the race.

• Sophomore Jay Woodhouse was 47th (25:48.13) and junior Lucas Siepser was 50th (25:52.71) to serve as the displacers for the Spartans. Each recorded a career-best time.

• Sophomore Thijs Doot added a career-best time of 26:28.63 to place 61st, while senior Owen Schessler added a season-best time of 26:45.17 to finish 68th. Junior Adam Joseph rounded out the list of CWRU competitors on Saturday, finishing 75th with a time of 27:30.49.

Spartan Notes

• Slater and Crowley became CWRU's first All-UAA honorees since Aidan Nathan secured a second team spot in 2024.

• Slater became the first Spartan to secure an All-UAA First Team finish since Joe Jaster in 2022. Slater's finish was the highest by a Spartan at UAAs since Jaster won the meet in 2022.

• 2022 was also the last time CWRU had multiple all-UAA honorees, with Jack Begley earning a second team honor that year.

• Slater's time was the fastest by a Spartan runner in an 8K since Begley notched a time of 24:26.8 at the NCAA Great Lakes Regionals in 2022.

• CWRU entered the meet ranked third in the Great Lakes Region.

• The Spartans moved up one place in the standings from last year, after placing sixth at the 2025 UAA Championship.

Up Next

CWRU's top runners will turn their attention to the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championship at Forest Akers East in East Lansing, Michigan, on Saturday, November 14. Meanwhile, the Spartans will also send a contingent of runners to the Wooster Twilight 5K Challenge in Wooster, Ohio, on Friday, November 6.