While making the rounds at prestigious high school track and field meets two years ago, rivals of Cliff Rovelto approached the Kansas State coach all but conceding their chances of signing one of the nation's premier high jumpers.

Erik Kynard, the eventual two-time state champion at Rogers, possessed the physical attributes and the aggressive sprinting approach of a prototypical Kansas State jumper, so the consensus opinion was, that's where he would end up.

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