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Notre Dame recruiting: Top prospect’s impressive long jump

Five-star prospect, three-sport stud.

Just a few weeks back 2024 wide receiver and Notre Dame commitment [autotag]Cam Williams[/autotag] was bumped up to a five-star rating. The impressive wide receiver has been visited by the Notre Dame coaching staff for a basketball game earlier this year.

Williams stars in another sport as well. The track and field star is one of the best long jumpers in the country. This week the five-star prospect had an impressive leap of 24 feet, 3.75 inches. For perspective, Ja’Marr Chase, the former LSU-turned Bengals star leaped 24 feet, 2.25 inches when he won an individual state championship in high school. Check out video of the leap below.

Williams is listed at 6 feet, 2 inches, 175 pounds and is finishing his junior year at Glenbard South High School in the western Chicago suburbs. He is one of three wide receiver commits in Notre Dame’s 2024 recruiting class.

Personally I love seeing a mega-athlete star at three sports in high school. Yeah, he’s already got his Division I scholarship, but that doesn’t slow him from competing. In a world where it seems like so many athletes want to isolate into one sport, I thoroughly enjoy seeing a young man compete in everything he can during his high school years.

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Nebraska Track & Field Medal Winners at Big Ten Championships

Nebraska Track & Field had a successful weekend at the Big Ten Track & Field Championships in Minneapolis!

The Nebraska Cornhuskers Men’s and Women’s Track & Field teams competed in the 2022 Big Ten Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Minneapolis over the weekend. The Ohio State Buckeyes doubled up and won both the men’s and women’s conference championships, with the women’s team repeating as back-to-back conference champions.

The Buckeyes won the women’s title with a meet record 185.5 team points, while Nebraska finished in fifth place behind Ohio State and Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Penn State. Husker high jumper Jenna Rogers and javelin thrower Maddie Harris were named first-team all-conference.

The men’s title saw OSU score 124 points for the league championship while Iowa, Wisconsin, and Nebraska finished second, third, and fourth. The Cornhuskers had six different team members named first-team all-conference. They were Max Otterdahl (Shot Put/Discus), Mayson Conner (High Jump), Jacob Hyde (4x400m), Alex Nelson (4x400m), Cory Berg (4x400m), and Nick Bryant (4x400m).

The Big Ten Track Athlete of the Year, Field Athlete of the Year, and Freshman of the Year will be announced on June 15th, following the completion of the NCAA National Championships.