Justin Hunter is ready to leap headfirst into college and get started with Tennessee - and two teams will be anxiously awaiting his arrival next month.
The highly touted receiver has been expected to provide a major boost for the football Vols since signing with Derek Dooley in February, but the biggest beneficiary might be the track team based on one final prolific meet for Ocean Lakes (Va.) High School last weekend. Hunter wrapped up his prep career by sweeping the long, high and triple jump titles to lead the Dolphins to the Group AAA state championship, and his marks might not have been the most impressive part of the performance.
"I was dealing with like a foot injury, tightness in my right foot, so the long jump was like a one-and-done jump," Hunter said Monday. "I had a little bit of a trouble in the high jump, then the winning jump came out of nowhere. In the triple, my third jump I was just trying to make it to the finals and I ended up winning.
"The foot was just something nagging. It's all good, though."
It obviously wasn't bad enough to keep him from setting a meet record in the long jump at 25 feet, 8 3/4 inches, clearing 7 feet in the high jump or rebounding from a rough start to complete the trifecta with a triple jump of 50-8 1/4 on Saturday.
Hunter also isn't expecting the foot to limit him when he arrives on campus July 5 for summer school and starts to turn his attention to football, where Dooley can surely use his athleticism on offense.
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