Jeremy Watson

Position:
Pole Vault
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Sugar Grove, Ohio
High School:
Berne Union

EMU: 2024-25: Joins the EMU track & field program as an incoming transfer from Wittenburg University.

WITTENBURG: Spent two seasons at Wittenburg…Set the indoor and outdoor pole vault school record, vaulting 4.60m for the indoor record and 4.68m for the outdoor record…Won the 2024 North Coast Athletic Indoor Conference Championships as a team…Finished as a runner-up in the pole vault at the 2023 outdoor conference meet and the 2024 indoor conference meet.

HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Berne Union High School where he participated on the track & field and cross country teams, earning four letters, participating in the pole vault, hurdles, and relay events…All-Ohio First Team in the pole vault in 2022…A two-time conference champion in the pole vault (2021-22), also earned a conference title in the 300m and 110m hurdles in 2022…Set the Mid-State League Record in the 300m hurdles (41.64) and pole vault (13-feet)…conference runner-up in the 110m and 300m hurdles (2021)…Academic All-Ohio selection in 2022 and a three-time academic all-conference nominee (2019, 2021-22)…Also earned four letters running cross country, earning all-conference second team honors in 2019…four-time academic all-conference (2018-21).

PERSONAL: Full name: Jeremy Russell Watson…Son of Russell Watson and Jennifer Beckley-Watson…Has two sisters Jazmyn and Jacquelyn…Major: K-12 Instrumental Music Education, with the goal of conducting ensembles at the collegiate level.