Vashti Cunningham (born January 18, 1998)
[2] is an American
track and field athlete specializing in the
high jump. She is the daughter of retired
National Football League (NFL) quarterback
Randall Cunningham, niece of retired NFL fullback
Sam Cunningham, and the younger sister of
Randall Cunningham II. Her mother was a ballerina with the
Dance Theatre of Harlem.
[3]She, like her brother two years ahead of her in school, jumped for
Bishop Gorman High School in
Summerlin, Nevada until March 2016 when she signed with
Nike. She announced she will continue her education at a university while competing as a professional athlete.
[4]
On April 18, 2015, at the
Mt. SAC Relays in
Walnut, California, she jumped 1.94 m (6 ft 41⁄4 in),
[5] to set the pending new
national high school record. At age 17, that was also equal to the #4 world Youth mark (under 19 years old).
[6] At that date it was the #3 mark in the world in 2015.
[7] She was named
USATF Athlete of the Week for that performance.
[8] On June 27, 2015 she won the U.S. Junior National Championship.
[9] A month later at the
2015 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships, she improved again, jumping 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in). That mark equalled the
World Youth Best.
On March 12, 2016, Vashti jumped 1.99 m (6 ft 61⁄4 in) while winning the
2016 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in
Portland, Oregon.
[10] The mark established a new
World Junior Record. At the time, just one week before the
2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships, which were held in the same facility in the
Portland convention center, Cunningham's jump was the #1 jump in the world in 2016.
[11] 8 days later she won the
World Indoor Championship.
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