Samantha Pearson Season 2023-24

Career Honors

• Two-time Pac-12 team champion (2022-23)
• 2021-22 CSCAA Scholar All-American
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Junior (2023-24)

• Scored points in the 100 back and 200 back at the Pac-12 Championships.

As a Sophomore (2022-23) • Pac-12 Champions

• Member of 400 free relay that won in the dual against Utah (Oct. 13)
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll 

As a Freshman (2021-22) • Pac-12 Champions

• CSCAA Scholar All-American
• Was second in the 100 back at UCLA (Jan. 28)
• Scored at the Pac-12 Championship in the 200 back (fourth), 200 free (11th), and 200 IM (16th)
• Swam at the NCAA Championships in three events, taking 48th in the 200 free (1:47.04), 42nd in the 200 back (1:55.40) and 59th in the 200 IM (1:59.17)

Prior to Stanford

• A 2020 graduate of Foothill High School in Irvine, Calif.
• Deferred enrollment for a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Ranked as the No. 18 recruit in the country for the Class of 2020, per SwimSwam
• Eleven-time high school All-American: 100 free (2017-19), 200 free (2017-19), 100 backstroke (2017-18), 200 IM (2018-19), 200 medley relay (2018)
• Three-time Crestview League Female MVP (2017-19)
• School record holder in the 100 free, 200 free, 200 IM and 200 medley relay
• Swam on the club level for Brea Aquatics and SoCal Aquatics
• 2018 Summer Junior National runner-up in the 100 free
• Four-time “A” finalist at the 2018 Winter Junior National
• 2018 Summer Junior National Championship as a team
• 2019 Gold Medal Cup
• Led Foothill to three Crestview League Championships (2017-19)

Personal

• Parents are Keir and Jackie
• Has siblings Anna and Alexandra
• Father rowed at Harvard and represented the United States at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in the quadruple sculls
• Mother was an All-Ivy League swimmer at Brown
• National Merit Commended Scholar
• California Scholastic Federation member
• Enjoys snorkeling, snowboarding, and hiking; has watched every Oscar-nominated Best Picture film for the last three years