Randall Cunningham | |||||||||||||
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College | USC Trojans | ||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||
Position | High jump | ||||||||||||
Class | Junior | ||||||||||||
Major | Business Administration | ||||||||||||
Career | 2014–present | ||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 180 lb (82 kg) | ||||||||||||
Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
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Las Vegas, Nevada |
January 4, 1996 ||||||||||||
High school | Bishop Gorman High School | ||||||||||||
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Randall Cunningham II, sometimes Randall Cunningham, Jr., (born January 4, 1996) is an American collegiate high jumper for the USC Trojans Men's track & field team who will be a junior during the 2016–17 school year. He was a high jumper and quarterback at Bishop Gorman High School. He is a five-time Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) state champion (three times in track and twice in football). He is a NCAA Outdoor Track Champion and 2-time All-American, U.S. Junior National Champion and Pan American Junior Athletics Championships Champion.
In track, he set USA Track & Field (USATF) and Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) national 15–16-year-old boys high jump records with a heights of 2.16 metres (7 ft 1.0 in) and 7 feet 2 inches (2.18 m), respectively, as a sophomore. As a junior, he posted the highest jump of the year by an American high school student in Spring 2013 with a height of 7 feet 3.25 inches (2.22 m). He was the 2013 Nevada Track & Field Gatorade Athlete of the Year. He won the NIAA state high jump championship as a freshman, as a junior and as a senior.
In football, he led Gorman to its fifth consecutive Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) state championship in 2013 and declined numerous Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) scholarship offers as well as an offer to play football at Yale University. He is the son of retired National Football League quarterback Randall Cunningham and nephew of retired NFL fullback Sam Cunningham.