The Manhattan skies are clear and the track is hot as Tah Chikomba, who owns the longest long jump in the world since 2019 and whose jump of 8.75 meters (28 feet, 8.5 inches) in the NCAA West Preliminary ranks eighth longest in world history, makes his way over to second-year Kansas State jumps coach Clive Pullen, who represented Jamaica in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Scott Trausch, who came to Kansas State to fill its newly-developed Director of Sports Nutrition position in October 2013, oversees the development of all nutritional protocols, including performance-fueling strategies, team and individual nutrition education, hydration, and body composition testing. He sits wearing a big smile in his office with big windows inside the Vanier Family Football Complex. It's 9:03 a.m. on Tuesday, and the 37-year-old husband and father of three points at a piece of typing paper taped to the top edge of his desk.
Three months to the day that Kerron Johnson sat on a cushy black couch and marveled at the spacious limestone inside the Shamrock Zone at Bramlage Coliseum, the 35-year-old first-year assistant coach who came to Kansas State with Casey Alexander from Belmont, is eager to get things rolling with a finalized roster that features new guards with much to prove in the 2026-27 season.
Kansas State baseball finished No. 1 among all men's Division I sports teams in community engagement during the 2025-26 academic year, according to the Helper Helper, a volunteer management platform that tracks and coordinates the community service of more than 200 athletic departments across the nation.
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