Collin Klein, on his 200th day on the job as Kansas State head football coach — a whirlwind six-month journey featuring little sleep and lots of detailed step-by-step planning — made an announcement at the Wichita Catbackers event on Monday afternoon.
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.
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