athletics

When Amy Backus starred on the basketball team at Ohio’s Vermilion High School in the 1970s, no college came courting her for scholarships. Congress had just passed Title IX, and the country was still adjusting to the idea of equal opportunity for women in education programs. Four decades later,…

In his nearly four years at Case Western Reserve University, senior David Thompson has flourished on the basketball court, in the community and, most importantly, in the classroom. Thompson, the team’s starting center, finished his Spartan basketball career earlier this month as the university’s…

It may seem hard to believe, but golf season is just around the corner—including the 11th annual Spartan Open. The annual golf outing will be held Monday, June 2, at Fowler’s Mill Golf Course. All proceeds from the event benefit the university’s 19 varsity athletic teams and more than 500 NCAA…

The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) and United States Tennis Association (USTA) named Case Western Reserve University men’s head tennis coach Todd Wojtkowski as the Midwest Region's recipient of the 2013 Sectional Campus and Community Outreach Award. Wojtkowski was one of only seven…

The Midwest Collegiate Cycling Conference season came to a close this past weekend with the regional final at Ohio Dominican University. Case Cycling sent senior David Takahashi and first-year student Evan Guarr to compete in the final collegiate race of the season before cyclocross nationals in…

Longtime Case Western Reserve University athletics administrator Patrick Kennedy will serve as the university’s interim director of athletics and chair of physical education, effective Oct. 16. Kennedy, the department’s associate athletic director since 2000, assumes the position vacated after…

The Case Association of Student-Athletes encourage members of the Case Western Reserve University community—from students to administrators—to wear blue clothes every Friday, starting this week for homecoming weekend. The gesture is way to show campus pride and also support for Spartan athletics.

Since last year, the Spartan men’s basketball team has provided the service Cakes at Case, selling cakes to deliver to Case Western Reserve University students and employees during important times of the year, including birthdays, holidays and final exams. Each cake is freshly baked and…

Outside linebacker Scott Campbell’s job on the football field—among other things—is to put a licking on the opposing team’s offensive players. It’s an aspect of football the biology and psychology major doesn’t take lightly, as he fully understands the risk for concussions in the hard-hitting,…

Case Western Reserve Director of Athletics Dave Diles has accepted a position leading the sports programs of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), the oldest state-supported college of its kind in the United States. “I congratulate Dave on this new opportunity and wish him the best,” said Louis…