No man loomed as large over the world of horizontal jumps from 1989 to 1990 than North Central (Ill.)’s Jan Cado. The Czechoslovakian swept the slate clean at NCAAs, both indoors and outdoors. He captured the indoor and outdoor long jump and triple jumps titles in 1989 and then repeated it again the following year. Cado set Division III records in each discipline and still holds the standard in the indoor triple jump (16.10m/52-10) and outdoor triple jump (17.20m/56-5¼). Eight of his ten All-America nods are from the horizontal jumps, with the final two coming by way of the 4×100m relay outdoors.
