Josh Pearson
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- Year:
- Jr.
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- Hometown:
- Cincinnati, Ohio
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- High School:
- Indian Hill
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- Major:
- Statistical and Data Sciences
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- Events:
- Free/IM/Free
2022-23: CSC Academic All-District® honoree …Key contributor to Scots’ first top-three finish at NCAC Championships since 2003 … Lowered 200 fly school record time to 1:49.65 in championship final of conference meet, placing fifth overall … 200 fly school record also ranked as an NCAA “B” cut time … Member of Wooster’s fourth-place 800 free relay (6:52.14), fifth-place 200 medley relay (1:34.35), fifth-place 400 medley relay (3:27.51) and sixth-place 400 free relay (3:09.37) … Qualified to championship finals of both the 200 IM and 400 IM as well … Went 1:52.65 to finish ninth in the 200 IM and 4:02.79 to place seventh in the 400 IM at NCACs … Member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll for the second time.
2021-22: Earned two all-conference honors at debut NCAC Championships … Debuted at conference meet with all-conference laurels in the 800 free relay, thanks to third-place time of 6:56.68 … Went 1:42.87 as the leadoff leg of the 800 free relay, with that ranking as the fifth-fastest 200 free time in program history … Qualified for the championship final in all three individual events at conference … Became the first Scot to earn all-conference honors in the 400 IM at NCAC Championships … Lowered school-record time in event to 4:00.30, with time also rating as a NCAA Div. III “B” cut … Turned in school-record time of 1:50.85 in the 200 fly, which was another NCAA Div. III “B” cut … Placed fifth in the 200 fly at conference … Lowered 200 IM school record to 1:51.77 at NCACs, a time that was eighth at the championship meet … Also swam on Wooster’s fourth-place 200 (1:33.93) and 400 medley relays (3:27.74) at NCAC meet … Part of the Scots’ sixth-place meet-capping 400 free relay (3:09.56) at conference … Won the 200 IM (1:53.86), 400 IM (4:07.80), 800 free relay (7:04.74), and 200 fly (1:52.43) at midseason Wooster Invitational … NCAC Athlete of the Week after a trio of third-place finishes at season-opening Viking Relay Challenge … Member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll.
2020-21: Tore apart the Timken Natatorium record board at the Wooster End of Season Meet … Broke the school and Timken Natatorium records in the 400 IM with winning time of 4:03.53 and set new Timken Natatorium benchmarks in the 500 (4:39.67) and 1,650 frees (16:23.55) … Times in the 500 and 1,650 frees are the third-fastest in program history, while 1,000-yard split (9:59.3) in the 1,650 free is the fourth-fastest in program history … Helped the Scots break the Timken Natatorium records in the 200 (1:35.79) and 400 medley relays (3:30.75) at the Wooster End of Season Meet, and led off the Scots’ pool-record 800 free relay (7:14.33) with a 1:44.64, the eighth-fastest 200 free time in program history … Went 1:55.09 to win the 200 IM at the Wooster End of Season Meet, with that time ranking as the third-fastest in program history … Also part of the Scots’ winning 400 free relay (3:16.10) at the Wooster End of Season Meet … Was named NCAC Athlete of the Week following the Wooster End of Season Meet.
Prior to Wooster: Four-year letterwinner at Indian Hill High School.
Personal: Born March 30, 2002 … Parents are Robert and Kristen Pearson … Sister Avery ’20 was a member of the swimming & diving team … Statistical and data sciences major.