Randall Cunningham II

Randall Wade Cunningham II (born January 4, 1996) is a former American high jumper.

He competed collegiately for the USC Trojans Men's track & field team.

A dual-sport athlete, he also played 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 3-time NCAA Track Champion, and 5-time NCAA 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 m and 7 ft, respectively, as a sophomore.

His father, who had previously coached his youth teams, was hired as the football team's offensive coordinator and for the track team's staff in December 2009.

On August 1, 2010, Cunningham placed second in the 13–14 age group at the USATF National Junior Olympics with a high jump of 5 ft. As a freshman, he won the May 20, 2011 NIAA AAAA high jump championship with a jump of 6 ft. As a sophomore, he sat out of NIAA competition after transferring.

In August 2011, his father resigned his positions and transferred his son to Bishop Gorman just prior to his sophomore year.

Due to NIAA rules which require a transfer student to wait a year before participating in athletic activities, Randall II was required to sit out his sophomore year in both football and track and field at Bishop Gorman.

Then, he backed up four-time state champion starting quarterback Anu Solomon as a junior.

That season, he compiled 298 yards and two touchdowns on 21–32 passing with four interceptions and added 42 rushes for 483 yards and seven touchdowns.

By his junior year, his 40-yard dash speed was laser-timed at 4.6 seconds.

As a senior, he inherited a team that Solomon had led to four consecutive state championships.

Despite not starting until his senior season, he entered the year with football scholarship offers from Mississippi State, LSU, Baylor, Syracuse, Arizona State, Utah and UNLV.

USA Today predicted that Baylor and LSU may be favorites because of their strong track programs.

During his senior season, the team played a schedule of out-of-state schools for its first 6 games before beginning league competition.

Bishop Gorman won 4 of those games.

Its October 4 contest with Miami's Booker T. Washington High School was broadcast on ESPNU at a time when Washington was the number one ranked high school in the country.

By that time, he had added offers from Kansas State and Yale.

In the five previous seasons under head coach Tony Sanchez, Bishop Gorman had gone 60–5 and not lost by more than 14 points.

Bishop Gorman entered the game with national rankings of 18 by Rivals.com, 32 by Student Sports.

Gorman trailed 14–12 with 8:35 remaining when Cunningham fumbled.

Washington scored a touchdown and then another following Cunningham's third interception, resulting in a 28–12 defeat.

Subsequently, Cunningham led Gorman through an undefeated Southwest League regular season, marking the seventh consecutive such occurrence for the school.

By mid-November, Cunningham stated "I like USC, UCLA, Kansas State, Texas, ASU, and Indiana - and Oregon as well".

On December 7, he led Gorman to a 48–14 victory over Edward C. Reed High School in the state championship, rushing for 4 touchdowns and 213 yards on 22 carries and throwing for a touchdown and 111 yards on 9-of-11 passing.

Cunningham was briefly recruited by Clay Helton, USC quarterback coach under Steve Sarkisian, but USC did not make him a football scholarship offer.

After accepting a track scholarship to USC, Cunningham announced he would attempt to walk-on to the football team.

His father's best high jump in high school was 6 ft. On June 24, 2012, Cunningham established the USATF 15–16 age group Outdoor Track & Field record with a jump of 2.16 m. Cunningham won the August 2012 National AAU Junior Olympic Games high jump with a jump of 7 ft. He actually won the 15–16 age group with a height of 6 ft. The Junior Olympic age group record of 7 ft by Johnnie Bartley had stood since 1986, but Cunningham continued to jump past his winning height to establish a new Junior Olympic record.

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 ft. 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, nephew of retired NFL fullback Sam Cunningham and older brother of World Champion Vashti Cunningham.

During his freshman year at USC, he became an All-American by placing 8th in the year-end National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) outdoor championships.

By April 11 of his 2013 junior season, he had already cleared 7 ft, which was the NIAA state championship record, four times that season.

During the subsequent summer he became the U.S. Junior National high jump Champion and won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships.

He won the 2016 NCAA outdoor championships as a sophomore and was an All-American as a junior.

He won the NCAA indoor championship as a senior.

Cunningham attended nearby Silverado High School in Las Vegas for his freshman season.