St. Paul, Minn. - The Crown College Polars finished 3rd in the 2024-25 UMAC Jerome Kruse Award standings, the highest ever finish for the Polars in school history.

The trophy was first awarded in the 1996-97 season and the award, named in honor of long-time Northwestern College (Wis.) and Martin Luther College athletic director Jerome Kruse, travels to the college with the most points accumulated by the place finishes of the college's athletic teams in the final standings of 18 conference sponsored sports.

The Polars finished third in the standings with 74 points. Crown's spring was highlighted by a championship in women's outdoor track & field. The Polars were also the runner-up in baseball and took third in men's outdoor track & field. Crown ended the year with two championships, having also won the women's indoor track & field championship in the winter.

See below for the full standings:

#	School	Total	Fall								Winter				Spring
			MG	WG	FB	VB	MS	WS	MXC	WXC	MB	WB	MITF	WITF	BB	SB	MT	WT	MOTF	WOTF
1st	UW-Superior	105	7	4	-	7	8	7	7	7	5	7.5	7	5	4	6.5	5	6	6	6
2nd	Northwestern	88.5	6	6	4	8	5	5	5	4	5	7.5	2	6	6	5	4	5	1	4
3rd	Crown	74	4	5	1	1.5	6	4	4	6	3	2.5	5	7	7	3	2	1	5	7
4th	Martin Luther	64.5	3	2	2.5	3	2.5	3	6	5	2	4.5	6	4	1	1	3	4	7	5
5th	Bethany Lutheran	62.5	5	1	-	4	7	6	1	3	5	6	1	3	8	6.5	1	2	2	1
6th	Minnesota Morris	58.5	2	3	2.5	6	4	2	3	2	7.5	4.5	3	2	5	4	-	3	3	2
7th	North Central	45.5	8	-	-	5	2.5	1	2	-	7.5	2.5	4	1	3	2	-	-	4	3
8th	Northland	8.5	1	-	-	1.5	1	-	-	1	1	1	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-