Darius Clark is a 5ft10 professional dunker from Blue Springs, Missouri, the Guinness World Record holder for the highest vertical leap, and the 24th and final athlete added to the DUNKMAN League on TNT in Summer 2026 — competing for a $500,000 grand prize. He is the Guinness World Record holder for the highest vertical leap with a running start — set at 50 inches in 2022 and then surpassed with a 51-inch vertical at Dunk Camp 2025 in Farmington, Utah. A former Texas A&M long jumper, Clark transitioned from track and field to professional dunking full-time and is widely regarded as the highest-jumping human being on the planet. With 567,000 Instagram followers as @kingdac, Clark is one of the most prominent dunkers in the world and a key figure in the Dunkademics community.