Season and Career Results
Academic Honors
2021 Academic All-Conference
2021 Spring AD Honor Roll
2020 Fall AD Honor Roll
2020 Academic All-Conference
2019 Fall AD Honor Roll
2019 Academic All-Conference
2019 Spring AD Honor Roll
2018 Fall AD Honor Roll
2018 Academic All-Conference
2018 Spring AD Honor Roll
2017 Fall AD Honor Roll
2021: Indoor – Competed in the pole vault three times … Only cleared height once … Finished seventh with a jump of 4.30m/14-1.25 at the Triangular … Did not clear height at the Division I Challenge and the Championship at The Peak.Â
Outdoor – Vaulted at three meets … Won the pole vault at the Shocker Spring Invitational with his season-best mark of 4.61m/15-1.50 … Was the runner-up at the KT Woodman Classic in the pole vault … Did not make height at the Wichita State Open.
2020: Indoor - Vaulted at five meets for Wichita State … Won the WSU Invitational, vaulting a season-best mark of 4.91m/16-1.25 … Cleared 4.90m/16-0.75 at the Jayhawk Classic … Earned top-10 finishes at the other three meets he jumped at (Triangular, Air Force Team Challenge, Gorilla Classic).Â
Outdoor -Â 2020 season canceled.
2019: Indoor - Vaulted in seven meets, including three top-5 finishes...Opened the season finishing fourth at the Hawkeye Invitational with a clearance of 4.85m/15-11...Set a personal best 4.86m/15-11.25 at the Fourth Annual Gorilla Classic...Placed 10th at the American Athletic Conference (4.78m/15-8.25).
Outdoor - Cleared 15-feet in five of the eight meets entered...Placed sixth in the season opener Herm Wilson Invitational with a height of 4.62m/15-1.75...Finished third at the K.T. Woodman Classic clearing 4.81m/15-9.25...Vaulted 4.80m/15-9 to place 12th at the 92nd Kansas Relays...Set a personal best height of 4.86m/15-11.25 finishing fourth at the American Athletic Conference Championships.
2018: Indoor - Redshirted and competed unattached...Finished fourth at the Shocker Prelude clearing 4.40m/14-5.25.
Outdoor - Redshirted and competed unattached...Placed sixth at the K.T. Woodman Classic pole vault (4.51m/14-9.5) and eighth at the Central Missouri Mule Relays (4.47m/14-8).
High School: Lettered four years in track and field, three in swimming and diving...Holds the Platte County school record in pole vault with a mark of 14-10...Helped his team win the conference title in track and field his senior season...Won the Most Improved Athlete award his senior year...Graduated with Cum Laude honors and was a member of National Honor Society.
Personal: Son of Joe and Kelly Bearden...Has two older brothers, David and Bradley, one older sister, Breanna...Majoring in aerospace engineering.
