Spartan Club Athletes of the Week for May 11: Matthew Plunkett & Arianna Holbrook

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Case Western Reserve University senior Matthew Plunkett, a member of the boys’s tennis crew, and senior Arianna Holbrook, a runner on the ladies’s observe and subject crew, have been named the Spartan Club Athletes of the Week for his or her performances this previous week.

Plunkett received each of his matches at no. 2 singles final weekend to assist information the fifth-ranked Spartans to the NCAA Division III Quarterfinals. Plunkett put collectively a dominant weekend of play, profitable every match in straight units, and was the primary Spartan to assert a singles level in every contest. He bested Ohio Northern’s Tyler Wood 6-1, 6-1 in CWRU’s 4-1 win within the second spherical on Saturday, and secured one other 6-1, 6-1 win on Sunday, this time in opposition to Trevor Rein in a 4-0 Spartans’ victory over Fifteenth-ranked Mary Washington within the third spherical. Plunkett, ranked twenty ninth in Division III, improved to 18-12 in singles matches this season. The Spartans improved to 28-8 general and can make their sixth consecutive look within the NCAA Division III Quarterfinals.

The Spartans proceed their NCAA Division III Championship run within the quarterfinals in opposition to fourth-ranked Denison in a rematch of final yr’s NCAA Division III Championship match. The match can be held on the Champions Club in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Tuesday, May 19.

Holbrook set a faculty file on the Harrison Dillard Twilight on Friday afternoon on the campus of Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio. Holbrook ran a program-best time within the 800-meter run, ending the race in 2:14.45, to eclipse the earlier file of two:14.64 set by Melissa Phung-Rojas in 2023. Her time ranks 77th in Division III and fifth within the Great Lakes Region, placing her in place to obtain All-Region honors. Holbrook positioned fourth within the occasion and third amongst Division III runners.

Members of the observe and subject groups can have one ultimate probability to file qualifying marks for the 2026 NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships with the Mount Union Last Chance Meet in Alliance, Ohio, on Thursday, May 14. Entering the weekend, two Spartans are in place in three occasions to achieve the postseason.

The Spartan Club Athletes of the Week are chosen by the CWRU Department of Athletics every Monday, based mostly on their efficiency through the earlier week of competitors.

Honorable Mentions

First-year pitcher Josephine Alspaw (softball) earned a win in her solely begin to assist the Spartans sweep a three-game sequence from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on Friday and Saturday. Alspaw toed the rubber within the second sport of the sequence, a 7-1 Spartan victory, permitting only one run in 5 innings. She conceded solely two hits and struck out a pair of batters, letting hitters bat simply .125 within the contest. This season, Alspaw is 9-3 with a 3.22 earned run common, hanging out 70 batters in 69 and two-third innings whereas permitting opponents to hit simply .241. CWRU completed the common season with a file of 27-12 and positioned third within the UAA with a 12-6 mark in convention contests.

The CWRU softball crew will await the announcement of the NCAA Tournament subject on Monday, May 11 throughout a variety present on ncaa.com at 11 a.m. ET.

First-year catcher Sophia Becker (softball) helped lead the Spartan offense to a three-game sweep of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on Friday and Saturday. Becker went four-for-eight on the plate with all 4 of her hits going for additional bases. She had three doubles and a house run, driving in three runs and scoring thrice within the sequence. Becker additionally walked twice and stole a base, ending the weekend with a .500/.636/1.250 slash line and 1.886 on-base plus slugging. Her finest sport was the primary sport of the set, when the first-year backstop hit a pair of doubles and a house run, scoring thrice and driving in two runs in an 8-4 win. She reached base twice within the second sport, a 7-1 victory, and drove within the go-ahead run with a double in a 5-4 come-from-behind win within the sequence finale. This season, Becker is batting .281 in 37 video games, driving in 22 runs and scoring 23 instances with 4 residence runs and eight doubles. 

Sophomore runner Donovan Crowley (males’s observe and subject) ran a top-50 nationwide time on the Harrison Dillard Twilight on Saturday in Berea, Ohio. Crowley completed the 1,500-meter run in a season-best time of three:51.42, the Forty third-fastest time in Division III this season and the third-quickest time within the Great Lakes Region. He positioned fifth within the occasion and second amongst Division III runners competing in Berea.

Senior Ellior Rose (girls’s tennis) received all three of her matches for the Fifteenth-ranked Spartans within the first and second rounds of the 2026 NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championship in Baltimore on Saturday and Sunday. In the crew’s 4-0 win over Albright the opening spherical, Rose and Katie Wong received 6-0 at second doubles. In singles play, Rose didn’t drop a degree within the fifth place, defeating Alaina Smith, 6-0, 6-0 to place the crew forward 2-0. The following day in a 4-1 loss to Tenth-ranked Carnegie Mellon, Rose and Wong received 6-2 at second doubles to assist the crew declare the doubles level and a 1-0 lead within the match. Rose didn’t end her singles contest, however led 7-6 (7-3), 3-5 when the match was determined.

The Spartans ended the season with a file of 13-7 in twin matches. Two members of the CWRU girls’s tennis crew had been chosen to the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships, which can be held from May 22-25 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

2025-26 Spartan Club Athletes of the Week:

Sept. 2: Jacob Slater (males’s cross nation) & Jamie Goldfarb (girls’s soccer)

Sept. 8: Mitchell Fein (males’s soccer) & Maggie Farra (girls’s soccer)

Sept. 15: Bradley Winter (males’s soccer) & Ceci Dapino (girls’s soccer)

Sept. 22: Daniel King (soccer) & Halina Tompkins (girls’s cross nation)

Sept. 29: Sam DeTillio (soccer) & Kalli Wall (volleyball)

Oct. 6: Osi Chukwuocha (soccer) & Ceci Dapino (girls’s soccer)

Oct. 13: Kalli Wall (volleyball) & Claire Kozma (girls’s swimming and diving)

Oct. 20: Jacob Slater (males’s cross nation) & Halina Tompkins (girls’s cross nation)

Oct. 27: Bradley Winter (males’s soccer) & Ellie Palaian (girls’s soccer)

Nov. 3: Art Martinez (wrestling) & Sohalya Rawlins (girls’s swimming and diving)

Nov. 10: Thomas Wagner (wrestling) & Emily Plachta (girls’s basketball)

Nov. 18: Jacob Slater (males’s cross nation) & Kalli Wall (volleyball)

Nov. 24: John Drumm (males’s swimming and diving) & Claire Kozma (girls’s swimming and diving)

Dec. 1: Andrew Fox (males’s basketball) & Maura Schorr (girls’s basketball)

Dec. 8: Antonio Sidoti (males’s observe and subject) & Gianna Phipps (girls’s observe and subject)

Jan. 5: Anand Dharmarajan (males’s basketball) & Mya Hartjes (girls’s basketball)

Jan. 12: Thomas Wagner (wrestling) & Mya Hartjes (girls’s basketball)

Jan. 20: Hunter Keane (wrestling) & Grace Misiunas (girls’s observe and subject)

Jan. 26: William Froass (males’s swimming and diving) & Michelle Lee (girls’s observe and subject)

Feb. 2: Ethan Edwards (males’s basketball) & Lillian Paley (girls’s swimming and diving)

Feb. 9: Alexander Goldman (wrestling) & Maura Schorr (girls’s basketball)

Feb. 16: Art Martinez (wrestling) & Gianna Phipps (girls’s observe and subject)

Feb. 23: Ethan Edwards (males’s basketball) & Claire Kozma (girls’s swimming and diving)

March 2: Mathew Gummere (wrestling) & Gianna Phipps (girls’s observe and subject)

March 16: Art Martinez (wrestling) & Kate Coonan (softball)

March 23: John Drumm (males’s swimming and diving) & Claire Kozma (girls’s swimming and diving)

March 30: Garrett Myers (males’s observe and subject) & Katalina Wang (girls’s tennis)

April 6: Santiago Salazar Garza (males’s tennis) & Gianna Phipps (girls’s observe and subject)

April 13: Anthony DeCarlo (males’s observe and subject) & Josephine Alspaw (softball)

April 20: Ayush Shetty (baseball) & Elizabeth Berry (softball)

April 27: Donovan Crowley (males’s observe and subject) & Gianna Phipps (girls’s observe and subject)

May 4: Sophia Becker (softball) & Sean Donahue (baseball)

May 11: Matthew Plunkett (males’s tennis) & Arianna Holbrook (girls’s observe and subject)