FAYETTEVILLE -- Perhaps Carl Lewis will be a better Hall of Fame barometer for Jarrion Lawson than Lewis has been for Erick Walder.
Anyhow that's a hope.
Though retired in 1997, even non-track fans have heard of long jumper/sprinter Carl Lewis like non-baseball fans know of Babe Ruth and non-basketball fans know of Michael Jordan.
Surpassing any Lewis track accomplishment is noteworthy. It's Hall of Fame noteworthy surpassing him and every collegiate long jumper like Walder did.
Competing with Arkansas in a 1994 outdoor meet in El Paso, Texas, Walder jumped 28-8 1/4.
No collegian, not Lewis at the University of Houston, nor Mike Powell at UCLA, jumped farther at a collegiate meet within legal wind conditions.