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2025-26 Track and Field Roster

Josh Parrish

  • Position Hurdles/Jumps
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Olathe, Kan.
  • Highschool Olathe North HS

Biography

Season and Career Results
3X NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFIER
3x All-America Honorable Mention

2025 Outdoor 110m Hurdles (19th; 13.68)
2025 Outdoor 4x400m Relay (23rd; 3:10.61)
2025 Outdoor Long Jump (DNP; NM)
6x NCAA Outdoor West Preliminaries Qualifier
2024 110m Hurdles (39th; 14.22)
2024 Long Jump (37th; 7.28m/23'10.75")
2025 110m Hurdles (QF 9th; 13.56, P 13th; 13.47)
2025 4x100m Relay (17th; 39.89)
2025 4x400m Relay (12th; 3:06.38)
2025 Long Jump (6th; 7.84m/25'8.75")
7x All-Conference
Indoor
2025 4x400m Relay (2nd; 3:08.25)
2025 Long Jump (3rd; 7.41m/24'3.75")
Outdoor
2024 110m Hurdles (2nd; 13.82)
2024 Long Jump (3rd; 7.59m/24'11")
2025 110m Hurdles (1st; 13.56)
2025 4x100m Relay (2nd; 39.68)
2025 Long Jump (3rd; 7.45m/24'5.5")
World U20 Championships
2024 Long Jump (22nd; 7.21m/23'7.75")
USATF U20 Championships
2024 110m Hurdles (Final 8th; 14.37, Prelim 7th; 13.70)
2024 Long Jump (3rd; 7.64m/25'0.75")
Academic Honors
2x American Conference All-Academic Team - 2024, '25
4x AD Honor Roll - Fall 2023, Spring '24, Fall '24, Spring '25
2024-25 (Sophomore): Indoor – Competed in seven meets, claiming three wins and seven more top-three finishes…Won the 60-meter hurdles at the Ichabod Invitational with the third-fastest time in school history, 7.78…Recorded a season best of 7.44m/24’5” to take fourth in the long jump at the Steve Miller Invitational… Ran on two school record 4x400-meter relays, winning the Ichabod Invitational in 3:10.60 and taking second at the American Indoor Championships in 3:08.25, earning all-conference recognition…Placed third in the long jump at the American Indoor Championships with a jump of 7.41m/24’3.75” to earn another all-conference award and score six more points for the team…Also finished 15th in the 60-meter hurdles and 11th in the triple jump at the American Indoor Championships. Outdoor – Competed in 10 meets, claiming nine wins and 10 more top-three finishes…Won the 110-meter hurdles at the Friends Spring Open, KT Woodman Classic and TCU Horned Frog Invite….Won the long jump at the KT Woodman Classic with a wind-aided mark of 7.98m/26’2.25”…Jumped 7.53m/24’8.5” to take third in the long jump at the TCU Horned Frog Invite…Won the American Outdoor Championships 110-meter hurdles title with a facility record time of 13.56, earning all-conference recognition…Also earned all-conference recognition in the 4x100-meter relay, running 39.68 to finish second…Placed third in the long jump with a mark of 7.45m/24’5.5” at the American Outdoor Championships to earn another all-conference award…Also placed 16th in the high jump…Qualified to the NCAA West Preliminaries in the 110-meter hurdles, long jump, 4x100-meter relay and 4x400-meter relay…Advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in three events, finishing ninth in the hurdles quarterfinal with a time of 13.56 after running the second-fastest hurdles time in school history, 13.47, in the prelim, taking sixth in the long jump with a jump of 7.84m/25’8.75”, and taking 12th in the 4x400-meter relay with a school record time of 3:06.38…Also took 17th in the 4x100 with a time of 39.89…Fouled all three jumps at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the long jump…Earned Honorable Mention All-American status in the 110-meter hurdles with a 19th-place finish in 13.68) and in the 4x400 with a 23rd place finish with a time of 3:10.61 at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

2023-24 (Freshman): Indoor – Competed in seven meets, claiming two individual event wins and recording seven top-three performances…Made his collegiate debut at the KU-KSU-WSU Triangular where he won both the 60-meter hurdles and the long jump, earning the Triangular High Point Award…His hurdles time of 7.90 ranked seventh in school history…Jumped 7.15m/23’5.5” in the long jump at the Husker Invitational…Ran sub-eight seconds in the hurdles six times…Finished fifth in the 60-meter hurdles at the AAC Championships and eighth in the long jump with a season-best leap of 7.21m/23’8”, scoring five points for the team…Also placed 12th in the triple jump and 13th in the high jump. Outdoor – Competed in eight meets, claiming five event wins and recording 13 top-five performances…Ran on two winning 4x100-meter relays…Opened his season with a 110-meter hurdles win at the Shocker Spring Invitational, running 14.17…Won the long jump at the Friends Spring Open with a season-best jump of 7.94m/26’0.75”, the third-farthest jump in Shocker history…Won both the long jump and 100-meter hurdles at the Ward Haylett Invitational…Finished second in the 110-meter hurdles at the AAC Championships with a season-best time of 13.82, the fifth-fastest time in school history, and placed third in the long jump with a leap of 7.59m/24’11”, earning all-conference honors in both events…Also placed eighth in the triple jump, ran on the fourth-place 4x100-meter relay and ran on the fifth-place 4x400-meter relay, helping the team score 24 points…Qualified to the NCAA West Preliminaries in both the 110-meter hurdles and the long jump where he finished 39th in the hurdles and 37th in the long jump...Competed in the long jump and 110-meter hurdles at the USATF U20 Championships where he finished eighth in the hurdles final and third in the long jump, ultimately being named to Team USA for the World Athletics U20 Championships to compete in the long jump in Lima, Peu, where he placed 22nd.
High School: Competed for Olathe North High School…Two-time Kansas State champion in the 110-meter hurdles and long jump…State champion in the triple jump…Earned first team all-district and first team all-conference honors…Back-to-back Kansas State team champions with Olathe North in addition to district and regional team champions… Combined with twin, Jason, to score 60.5 of Olathe North’s 104 points at the 2023 state meet, enough to win the team competition by themselves...Also played football and basketball…Earned a 3.5 GPA in high school. HS personal bests: 110H – 13.92, LJ – 7.34m/24’1”, TJ – 14.60m/47’11”
 
Personal: Son of Ginger and Jason…Has four siblings, Jevon, Jacob, Jaia and twin, Jason, who is also on the Wichita State track and field team…Brother, Jacob, plays football at Kansas State…Brother Jevon, is on the wrestling team at Nebraska…Plans to major in business management.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Freshman

    Hurdles/Jumps
  • 2024-25Sophomore

    Hurdles/Jumps
  • 2025-26Junior

    Hurdles/Jumps