The 5-foot-10, 145-pound senior won the IHSA Class 3A state meet this past season in personal-best 14:03.4 for three miles, breaking the tape 8.4 seconds ahead of his next-closest competitor and leading the Trevians to sixth place as a team. A two-time All-State selection, Crane earned Second Team All-America honors at both the national Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, where he finished sixth, and the national NXN Final, where he took 14th. He also clocked a 5K personal-best of 14:46.03 last fall in winning the NXN Midwest Regional, which was a course-record time on the LaVern Gibson Championship layout.
Crane has maintained a 3.83 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a written letter of athletic aid to run at Brigham Young University this fall.
A member of the New Trier Sports Medicine Club, Crane has volunteered locally with the Active Hearts Foundation and through the Wilmette Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as a youth leader and as an altar boy for Sunday services. He has also donated his time with Special Olympics Buddy Baseball by assisting special needs athletes and on behalf of the New Trier XC Run-A-Thon, raising more than $1,000 for the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
