The way Jeremy Struemph sees it, compared to the 53 women and children who are victims of domestic violence in Kansas every day, jumping out of an airplane is no big deal. So he did it 53 times.

Struemph, a grant specialist at the Center for Research, broke the Kansas record for most skydives in one day on June 14 when he made 53 jumps to raise awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault. The previous record was 40 jumps.

"It’s thought that the 53 reported cases are only about 20 percent of all incidents. We were thinking about a charity event and thought domestic violence and sexual assault doesn’t get a lot of attention," he said.

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