Keywords high jump, straddle jump, belly roll, technique, center of gravity, lift ... It emphasizes the importance of lifting the center of gravity and achieving clearance over the crossbar.

In 1973, Rochester’s Rod Raver high jumped 7-foot-1 to set the high school state record. Nearly 50 years later, that record still stands. After that jump, though, Raver spent the next decade in ...

Woodland Park’s Sonny Ciccarelli is towering above his high jump competition this spring. So much so that he is the heavy favorite to stand atop the podium at next week’s ...

As a seventh-grader Mallory Mullen didn’t know what high jumping was. On Friday, as a senior, she will attempt to win her third state high jump title at Ohio State’s Jesse Owens Stadium.

The Tygers' outdoor high jump record of 6-10 is held by Ellis and the school indoor record is 7-0 by Brandon Wilson in the early 2000s, ... Ware leaped over a 6-8 crossbar, ...