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2015-16 Track and Field Roster

Jovon Cunningham

  • Position Jumps
  • Height 6-0
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Redding, Calif.
  • High School Enterprise

Biography

2012 All-Pac-12

2012 NCAA Outdoor Second-team All-American

2014 NCAA Indoor All-American Honorable Mention

Personal Best Marks

Indoors:

High Jump – 6-7 (2.00m) (MPSF Championships 2/23/13)

Long Jump – 23-3.5 (7.09m) (Razorback Invitational 1/25/13)

Triple Jump – 52-2.5 (15.91m) (Cherry & Silver Invite 1/25/14)

Outdoors:

High Jump – 6-9 (2.05m) (Willie Williams Classic 3/16-17/12)

Long Jump – 22-8 (6.90m) (UA-ASU-NAU Double Dual 4/28/12)

Triple Jump – 51-11.25 (15.83m) (Jim Click Shootout 3/31/12)

 

2015: Indoors, Cunningham competed in the triple jump in four events during the indoor season … He earned a third-place finish at the MPSF Championships with a mark of 51-0 (15.54m) … He took first place at the Lobo Collegiate with a mark of 51-0.25 (15.55m) … Set a season high mark at the Don Kirby Elite with a jump of 51-2.75 (15.61m) … Cunningham did not compete due to injury during the outdoor season.

2014: Indoors, Cunningham started the season off with a bang, setting a personal-best mark of 52-2.5 (15.91m) in the men’s triple jump at the Cherry & Silver Invitational … Cunningham competed at The Armory Collegiate Invitational and posted a mark of 49-4.25 (15.04m) … He suffered an injury that kept him out of competition until the NCAA Championships, which he qualified for from his mark at the Cherry & Silver Invitational … However, he fouled on all three attempts in the triple jump competition … Outdoors, Cunningham’s season-best mark of 49-7.75 (15.13m) in the triple jump came at the Jim Click Shootout … He missed the majority of the season with another injury.

2013: Indoors, Cunningham competed in two events at the MPSF Championships … He posted a personal-best clearance of 6-7 (2.01m) in the high jump, good for 13th place … In the triple jump, his primary event, Cunningham took sixth place with a mark of 50-3.25 (15.32m) … His season-best mark in the triple jump came at the Razorback Invitational where he jumped 50-6.25 (15.40m) and took sixth place … At the same meet, Cunningham set a personal best in the long jump at 23-3.5 (7.10m) … Outdoors, he redshirted the season.

2012: Indoors, Cunningham set a personal-best mark of 51-7.75 in the triple jump at the MPSF Championships, taking third place … At the Razorback Invitational, Cunningham jumped 49-11, good for sixth place … He posted a mark of 49-3 at the Boise State Team Challenge, earning a second-place finish … Outdoors, Cunningham earned all-conference honors, taking fourth place at the Pac-12 Championships in the triple jump with a mark of 51-9 … At the NCAA West Preliminaries, Cunningham took eighth place with a mark of 51-8.25, good for a trip to Iowa for the NCAA Championships … He finished in 11th place at the NCAA Championships, posting a mark of 51-9.75 and earned second-team All-America accolades … His personal-best mark of 51-11.25 came at the Jim Click Shootout, that mark was good for second place.

HIGH SCHOOL:  A graduate of Enterprise High School, he lettered in football, basketball and track and field … Holds the school record in the triple jump … Named team captain and MVP … All-district, all-region and all-state honoree.olds the

PERSONAL: He is the son of Earnest and Tina Cunningham … Majoring in communication … Also recruited by Arkansas, Oregon, LSU, UCLA, Cal State Fullerton and Fresno State.

Historical Player Information

  • 2011-12Redshirt

    Jumps
    6'0"
  • 2012-13Sophomore

    Jumps
    6'0"
  • 2013-14Redshirt Sophomore

    Jumps
    6'0"
  • 2014-15Redshirt Junior

    Jumps
    6'0"
  • 2015-16Redshirt Senior

    Jumps
    6'0"
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