Jon Bernard

Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Maineville, Ohio
High School:
St. Xavier

AWARDS AND HONORS
2021-22 BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2022 All-BIG EAST Team
2021-22 BIG EAST Championships: 200 Breast Bronze Medalist
2020-21 BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2020-21 All-BIG EAST Team
2020-21 BIG EAST Championships: 200 IM Silver Medalist
2020-21 BIG EAST Championships: 800 Free Relay Gold Medalist
2019-20 All-BIG EAST Team
2019-20 BIG EAST Championships: 200 Breast Bronze Medalist
2019-20 BIG EAST Championships: 800 Free Relay Bronze Medalist
2019-20 BIG EAST Championships: 200 Medley Relay Bronze Medalist
2019-20 BIG EAST Championships: 400 Medley Relay Bronze Medalist
2019-20 BIG EAST All-Academic Team

2021-22: Earned a spot on the All-BIG EAST team after earning a spot in three championship finals at the conference meet… Placed third in the 200 breast A-Finals…Set a season-best time of 1:59.90 in the event prelims…Placed sixth in the A-Final of the 100 breast after setting season-best time of 55.57 in the prelims…placed eighth in the Championship final of the 200 IM after setting a season-best time of 1:49.91…Took part in the 800 free relay.

2020-21: Earned a spot in two championship finals and one consolation final at the BIG EAST Championships to help Xavier to a third-straight team title...Took silver and earned All-BIG EAST in the 200 IM with a season-best time of 1:49.81...Set a season-best time of 2:01.98 in the finals of the 200 breast to take fourth... Took the top spot in the consolation final of the 400 IM with a season-best time of 3:58.50...Also won a BIG EAST Championship and earned All-BIG EAST as part of the winning 800 free relay.

2019-20: Earned All-BIG EAST in four events at the 2020 BIG EAST Championships...Competed in the Championship final of three individual events to help the Musketeers win a second-straight BIG EAST Championship...Set a new school record in the prelims of the 200 breast, 1:59.70, to qualify in the second spot for the Championship final where he took third, earning All-BIG EAST...Set a personal-best time, and the top time by a Musketeer that season, of 1:49.55 in the Championship final of the 200 IM to place fourth...Set a personal-best time, and the top time by a Musketeer, at 3:55.86 in the Championship final of the 400 IM to place fourth...Earned All-BIG as part of three third-place finishing relays, the 800 free relay, the 200 medley relay and the 400 medley relay...Took part in the 100 back, 200 back, 100 breast and 200 breast at the Toyota US Open in Atlanta, Ga., in December 2019...Set a personal-best time of 1:42.88 in the 200 free against Bellarmine.

PRIOR TO XAVIER: A graduate of St. Xavier High School and also swam for the Mason Manta Rays...In each of his four years at St. Xavier the squad GCL, OHSAA DI and NISCA National Champions...Capped off his high school career with two top-six finishes at the OHSAA D1 State Championship, taking fifth in the 100 breast and sixth in the 200 IM...Was a NISCA High School All-American in the 100 breast and earned academic All-America honors from both the NISCA and USA Swimming...Qualified for and competed at both the Winter and Summer Speedo Junior Nationals.

PERSONAL: Majoring in Biomedical Sciences with a minor in Psychology...The son of Mary and Thomas Bernard... Has a younger sister, Alison.