Brian Pearson joined the Yotes as the head coach of the College of Idaho Swimming & Diving teams in the summer of 2024. As the former skipper at CSU-Pueblo, Colorado Mesa and Colorado College he is eager to get back to a private institution. A Pueblo native, Pearson comes to the College of Idaho with a total of 21 seasons of experience as a head swimming and diving coach at the collegiate level, having directed the programs at Colorado College (1998-2006), Colorado Mesa (2006-12), Colorado State University-Pueblo (2014-2021) and most recently, the University of Houston, Houstonian/Eagle Swimming Association. During his collegiate coaching career, his athletes have captured over 1,200 school records at their respective institutions. The 2009 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Coach of the Year, Pearson has coached a total of nine All-Americans, 73 NCAA qualifiers and 104 conference champions. In 2006, Pearson was tasked with forging the new swimming program at Colorado Mesa University, and quickly recruited Division II's largest team, consisting of 28 female and 43 male student-athletes. Pearson eventually coached the Mavericks to a high-power ranking of 12th in the nation, reached in his final season in 2012. Pearson, who competed at Pueblo Central High School, began swimming at the age of four. Developing into a high school All-American, two-time Colorado state high school champion, two-time junior national champion and record holder with three long-course times that remained in the Nation's Top 100 for over a decade. As a result as an 18 year old he was ranked top ten in the world in 1983. Brian continued his swimming success at the University of Missouri and the University of Wyoming, where he was a Big Eight champion; two-time Western Athletic Conference Champion, NCAA qualifier, USS national's finalist and Olympic hopeful in two events. Since his collegiate coaching career began in 1989, Pearson has received five College Swimming Coaches Association of America Coaching Excellence Awards (2001, 2004, 2006, 2011 & 2012). In addition he has assisted or directed winning programs in Denver (ACES), Greenwood Village (GTS), Delta (Barracudas), Grand Junction (Dolphins), Pueblo (South), Sitka, Alaska (Baranof Barracudas), Colorado Springs (CSST) Humble, TX (ESA) and Houston, TX (Houstonian). Pearson is an alumnus of the University of Wyoming, receiving his Bachelor's of Science in Physiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation in 1992