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Mark Pearson '78 returned to The Hill and became head wrestling coach in 2011. After graduating from The Hill, Coach Perason wrestled for Big Ten power University of Michigan. After graduating from Michigan in 1982, he began his coaching career at the collegiate level, spending time at Franklin and Marshall College and Millersville University, both located in Lancaster, Pa. He began his boarding school career in 1991 at St. Alban's school in Washington, D.C., where he taught history and coached wrestling. He returned to The Hill in 1995, and for five years was an instructor of English and a wrestling coach. Under his guidance, Hill's teams of the late 1990's resembled the powerhouse teams of the 1950s and 60s, posting records of 18-2 in 1998-99 and 14-2 in 1999-2000. He left The Hill in 2000 and worked toward advanced academic degrees before returning to coaching in 2005 at the Kinkaid School in Texas, where he remained until returning to The Hill for a second stint as a teacher and coach in 2011.