The boys triple jump became a CIF event in 1971.
Santa Rosa’s Jim Brown got the event off to a strong start for the Redwood Empire that year with four jumps over 45-6¼ including an NBL meet record of 46-5½ and a season best of 47-4¼, a mark that has only been beaten on nine occasions by three athletes since.
Leading those seasons was Piner’s Marvin Colter with 15 meets over 45-7½ and seven of the eight farthest ever, including an Empire record jump of 48-7 that has only been better once by a half inch. To this day he still has seven of the ten best jumps ever. He still holds the SCL meet record at 47-0 from 1978, was the NCS MOC champion that year at 47-2, our only MOC TJ champion to date, and placed 5th at the state meet at 48-4½. He is still the only Empire triple jumper to ever place in the top 8 at state.
1978 also produced a third great jumper dominating the CMC in Cloverdale’s Allen Kuhn who had a best of 46-11½, 14th performance and fifth performer All-Time.
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McCorkel’s senior year, 1982, he produced four more jumps making the list giving him the second highest total at seven over 45-6.
The only other jumper to have more than two jumps in the top 50 is Piner’s Aaron Braxton who also had three over 45-6 with a best of 46-0.
Since then only two Rancho Cotate jumpers have had a single jump over 46 feet (Jermaine Brown 46-1 1988 and Maurice White 46-0¼ 2001).
In the last 17 years only three jumps have cracked into the top 50.
45-8 Brycen Poarch, Casa Grande 5/19/12 +2.1