Vashti Cunningham named top track athlete
Vashti Cunningham of Bishop Gorman clears 6 feet, 4 inches during the girl’s high jump competition during the NIAA Division I Sunrise and Sunset Region track and field meet at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas Saturday May 03, 2015. (Josh Holmberg/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Vashti Cunningham of Bishop Gorman is seen after clearing 6 feet, 4 inches during the girl’s high jump competition during the NIAA Division I Sunrise and Sunset Region track and field meet at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas Saturday May 03, 2015. (Josh Holmberg/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Bishop Gorman’s Vashti Cunningham, shown during the 2014 Division I state track and field championships, set a national high school record in the girls high jump Saturday at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif. Cunningham cleared 6 feet, 4 1/4 inches, breaking the mark of 6-4 set in 2009 by Toni Young of Del City (Okla.). (Las Vegas Review-Journal, Cathleen Allison)
Bishop Gorman junior Vashti Cunningham was named the Gatorade Nevada Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year on Wednesday.
Cunningham set a national record in the high jump this spring, clearing 6 feet, 4¼ inches at the Mt. SAC Relays in California.
Cunningham failed to clear a height in the event at the Division I state meet, but came back to win the long jump with a mark of 19-2½.
That jump was the best in Nevada this year.
Cunningham won both events at the Sunset Region meet, clearing 6-4 in the high jump and posting a mark of 17-5 in the long jump.
