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Women's Track & Field, High Jump/Triple jump, 1995-98
Pearson was the 1996 NCAA Division II Indoor high jump champion ... NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient ... Two-time CoSIDA College Division Academic All-America® earning first team honors in 1998 and third team in 1997 ...  She was 1998 NCAA Woman of the Year state winner ... 1998 NDSU Albrecht Presidential Trophy recipient ... Three-time United States Track Coaches Association (USTCA) All-Academic team selection ... Eight-time NCAA Division II Track & Field All-American overall ... At NCAA indoor, placed third in 1995, first in 1996, tied for fifth in 1997 and second in 1998 … At NCAA outdoor, placed seventh in 1995, third in 1996, tied for fifth in 1997 and placed third in 1998 ... Four-time North Central Conference track & field champion ... Won the 1995 and 1996 NCC indoor high jump crowns ... Won the 1995 and 1998 NCC outdoor high jump ... Member of two NCC indoor track & field championship teams and a pair of NCC outdoor championship teams ... Bison had three top 10 NCAA indoor finishes including third in 1995 and fourth in 1996 ... NDSU also had three top 10 NCAA outdoor finishes including sixth in 1996 ... NCC Indoor Athlete of the Week ... On the NDSU indoor charts, ranks fifth all-time with jump of 5-feet, 9-1/4 inches at the 1998 NCAA indoor track & field championships ... Outdoors, listed at fourth with jump of 5-feet, 9-1/4 inches at the 1998 NCC outdoor track & field championships ... Served as vice-president for the NDSU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee ... Received the 1998 Prairie Rose Achievement and Blue Key Doctor of Service Awards ... Member of the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society ... Graduated from NDSU with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1998 ... Earned her master's degree from St. Cloud State (Minn.) in 2004 ... Born and raised in Hutchinson, Minn., Pearson was a two-time Minnesota state high jump champion in 1993 and 1994 ... She held the state's high jump record for two decades, from 1994 to 2014 at 5-feet, 10-1/4 inches ... That mark still stands as Hutchinson High School's record ... Selected Senior Female Athlete of the Year in 1994 ... Currently, Pearson works as a school counselor and coach at Cameron Middle School in Cameron, Wis. ... Her coaching resume includes working with young athletes ranging from six-and-under to middle and high school to the Junior Olympic level in soccer, volleyball and track & field ... She was the head girls'  track & field coach for her alma mater, Hutchinson High School, from 2004-06 ... Andrea and her husband, Preston, have two children, Jacob and Lauren.