2024-2025: Cross Country – JP competed in 3 XC meets, but did not compete in either the WAC Championship or the South Central Region Championship meets. 

2023-2024: Cross Country – redshirted, but competed in 2 meets unattached. Indoors – competed in 4 meets, including an 11th place finish in the mile at the Charlie Thomas Invitational in College Station, with a new PR time of 4:30.51. He did not compete at the conference championship. Outdoors – ran in 5 meets, placing 8th in the Mean Green Invitational 800 and 4th in the Trinity University Last Chance 1500, with a new PR time of 4:09.75. He did not compete at the conference championship meet.  

2022-2023: Cross Country – did not compete. Indoors – competed in 4 indoor meets for ACU, including finishing 18th in the 800 at the TTU Matador Qualifier, but did not compete at the WAC Indoor Championship. Outdoors – competed at 7 meets for ACU, including placing 11th in the Wes Kittley Invitational 800 and 26th at the Michael Johnson Invitational at Baylor in a PR time of 1:55.37. He earned the opportunity to run at the WAC Outdoor Championship, where he would place 26th in the 800 at his first collegiate conference championship. 

Before ACU: JP gathered 8 varsity letters in cross country and T&F in his 4 years at Tulsa Metro Christian HS. He was team captain as both a junior and senior of the track team and as a senior at the OK 3A state meet he placed 4th in the 800, anchored the 3rd place 4x400 team and ran the leadoff leg for the 3rd place 4x800 relay. In his HS junior season, he placed 7th in the OK 3A 800. JP placed in the 4x400 and 4x800 relays at the OK 3A state meet all four of his HS years. His HS best was 1:59.74 in the 800.

Personal: A 2022 graduate of Tulsa Metro Christian Academy, where he was on the Principal’s Honor Roll as a junior and senior and the Dean’s Honor Roll as a freshman and sophomore. JP is a Kinesiology/Pre-Occuptational Therapy major with a minor in Entrepreneurship, receiving both the COBA Business Scholarship and the Kinesiology Scholarship. He is active in FCA and at The Well Church in downtown Abilene. His parents are Beth Roush and John Trook and he has one sister, Peighton Pratt. 

Why did you choose ACU? I chose ACU because I loved the teachers, the coaches and the people who wanted me at the school and wanted to help shape me into the runner I am today. I love the community that surrounded me and loved me even when I hadn’t decided where to go to college. I also loved the team and the instant friends I made on my visit that I will forever cherish. 

What is your favorite thing about ACU? My favorite thing about ACU is how small the campus is and that I can see my friends all the time and not fell like I never see them, since we cross paths on the way to class.