Justice Summerset passed for 5,264 yards in his career, good enough to put him in the top four in the history of Southern Arizona, but the Marana Mountain View quarterback is also a high jumper. A very good one.

Why settle for fourth best when you can be the best?

Summerset set the Southern Arizona track scene on fire when he cleared 6 feet 8 inches when he was in only middle school. That mark would have given him the Division II state championship last year but Summerset has divided his time between football, 7-on-7 football, the long jump, the 400-meter dash, and various other sprints as well as the skill that earned him a scholarship to the University of Arizona – the high jump.

Summerset cleared 6-4 as a sophomore at the Division II state championships and 6-6 as a junior. He took second last year but it will be difficult for someone to jump higher than him this time.

Summerset has officially passed 7 feet four times this spring, each time getting closer and closer to the state record held by North Canyon's Bryant O'Georgia. O’Georgia set the record of 7-2 ¼ at the state championships in 2014.

How difficult is it to jump past 7-2? Gabriel Beechum (Casa Grande) did it in 1989 and that record stood till O’Georgia’s jump two years ago.

Then, on a bright April day, came 7 feet, 2 ½ inches.

Summerset set the new state record at the Southern Arizona Championships on April 23 and his jump stood as the best in the nation until Noah Martin of Spokane cleared 7-3 later that same day.

Martin is headed to Montana State and Summerset will soon be a Wildcat.

As mentioned before, Summerset was being pulled in several directions. Summerset won the USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field high jump title in 2014 in the 15-16 Division at 6 feet 8 3/4 but he was also being invited to the Rivals Quarterback Challenge, the Five-Star QB Challenge, the Rivals Combine, the USA Football Combine and the Blue-Grey Combine.

He was getting looks by Arizona, UCLA, Oklahoma and Texas A&M according to his father Robert.

“Which sport will it be?” his father told us last summer. “Football or track? For now, we do not know, but he is having fun with it.”

Well, Summerset can say goodbye to football because the high jump is a full-time sport in college.

“I’m super excited about being a Wildcat,” Summerset said before he signed his NLI at a ceremony held at Mountain View. “This is a dream come true. I might run a bit but I get to focus on the high jump now.”

His training will officially shift to the high jump once he graduates from Mountain View. The unique and specific training for that sport will be under the guidance of the Arizona staff. Who knows what his true potential will be under those circumstances?