2011 Outdoor Track Season: Recorded
season-highs in the 800-meter run placing 36th in 2:13.04 and the
mile placing 33rd in 4:49.03 at the Rhodes College Open…Recorded
season-high in the 5,000-meter run at the UCA Relays placing 17th in
16:25.00.
2011 Indoor Track Season: Redshirted.
2010 Cross Country Season: Redshirted.
2010 Outdoor Track Season: Redshirted.
2010 Indoor Track Season: Recorded season-high
in the 5,000-meter run at the Iowa State Classic placing 24th in
15:40.60…Recorded highest finish in the 5,000 meters at the Arkansas State
Invitational placing sixth in 15:54.95…Recorded season-high and highest finish
in the 3,000-meter run at the ASU Kickoff Klassic placing sixth in 8:59.17.
2009 Cross Country Season: Helped the men’s team
to be ranked as high as No. 7 in the region and finish third at the Sun Belt
Championships placing 36th in 29:34.12 for the 8K…Recorded
career-high time of 32:39.63 in the 10K at the Chile Pepper Festival ranking
him 16th in UALR career records…Recorded season-high in the 8K at
the Greater Louisville Classic with at time of 26:22.97…Placed 29th
at the Brooks Memphis Twilight with a time of 21:14.17 for the four-mile course
and helping the team to a second place finish…Recorded a time of 34:19.2 for 87th
place at the NCAA South Central Region and helping the men’s team tied for
eighth place.
2009 Outdoor Track Season: Redshirted.
2009 Indoor Track Season: Recorded season-high
in the 3,000-meter run at the McDonald’s Invitational placing eighth in
9:01.58...Recorded highest finish in the 3,000 meters at the Arkansas State
Kickoff Classic placing third in 9:18.19...Recorded season-high and highest
finish in the 5,000-meter run at the Sun Belt Championships placing ninth in
15:33.68 ranking him ninth in the Sun Belt...Also placed 17th in the
5,000 meters in 15:33.94 and 55th in the mile in 4:46.36 at the Iowa
State Classic.
2008 Cross Country Season: Recorded career-high
in the 8K at the UALR Open placing fifth in 25:45.20 helping his team to a
first place finish and ranking him 16th in UALR career
records...Recorded career-high in the 10K at the NCAA South Central Regional
placing 85th out of 118 runners in 34:08.4...Tied highest finish of
fifth place at the SLC Pre-Conference Meet 8K recording a time of
26:50.00...Placed eighth at the Arkansas Tech Twilight recording a time of
20:54 for the four mile course and helping the team to a first place
finish...Out of 238 runners, placed 145th at the Brooks Memphis
Twilight 8K in 27:14.73...Placed 20th at the Sun Belt Conference
Championships recording a time of 26:40.47 for the 8K and helping the Trojans
to a second place finish.
2008 Outdoor Track Season: Recorded career high
and highest finish in the 10,000-meter run at the Sun Belt Championships
placing eighth with a time of 33:45.32 ranking him eighth in UALR career
records and ninth in the Sun Belt...Recorded season best and highest finish in
the 5,000-meter run at the John McDonnell Invitational placing 13th
in 15:32.71...Also competed in the 5,000 meters at the Rhodes College Open placing
17th in 15:48.96...Recorded season best and highest finish in the
1,500-meter run at the Harding Invitational placing sixth in 4:19.14...Also
competed in the 1,500 meters at the Hendrix Invitational placing 19th
in 4:20.10...Named to the Sun Belt Conference Commissioner's List for academic
excellence.
2008 Indoor Track Season: Redshirted.
2007 Cross Country Season: Redshirted.
High School: The two-time
all-state honoree for cross country and 2006-07 all-state recipient in track
and field at Mountain Home High School, recorded personal best of 2:01 in the
800 meters, 4:26 in the 1,600 meters, and 9:41 in the 3,200 meters...Placed
second at the 2006 state cross country meet...Placed second at the 2006 and
2007 outdoor track and field championships...Helped led his team to the 2006 6A
state runner-up.
Personal: Son of Rick Pierce
and Laura Roase...Has two brothers, Dylan Pierce and Aaron Cockran, and one
sister, Reagan Roase...Born October 28, 1988 in Mountain Home, Ark....Majoring
in economics.
