Morgan Smalls is quickly turning into the top jump prospect in the Class of 2020.
And there's a very big reason for that:
She's unusual in the way that we typically see high-level jumpers.
Very rarely do we see a young athlete who performs at an elite-level in all three jumps (we're looking specifically at indoors events), though that can be tied to the fact that there's nuance to each discipline.
Not counting multis athletes like Anna Hall, who has already proven to be the best all-around athlete in the Class of 2019, many athletes who perform in the field often tie their success to just a few events with similar points of transition.
Jasmine Moore, for example, has become the top horizontal jumper in the Class of 2019, honing elite-level marks in the long jump and triple jump. But last year, when Moore began to high jump outdoors, her top height only reached 5 feet, 4 inches.
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Smalls has shown this indoor season that she has th...