51st Annual adidas GOLDEN WEST INVITATIONAL
Saturday • June 12, 2010 • Folsom High School • Folsom, California
- adidas Golden West Invitational brings together top high school athletes from throughout the country and provides them with the very highest levels of competition.
We invite all athletes who achieve the Golden West Invitational event standards (check back for 2010 standards) to enter!
- This Web site is being updated with minor changes for 2010. The 2009 information posted here will help you become familiar with the event.
Past participants have represented the United States in every Olympic Games since 1964 and have filled more than 150 positions on the American Olympic Track & Field teams. They have won more than 75 medals, 40 of them gold. An additional nine GWI athletes represented their native countries of France, Ireland, Japan, Trinidad/Tobago, Fiji, Jamaica and Cape Verde Islands.
GWI alums include track legends Evelyn Ashford, Bob Beamon, Marion Jones, Marty Liquori, Nick Hysong, Steve Prefontaine, Jim Ryun, Tommy Smith, and Dwight Stones.
Recent Olympic medalists include Stacey Dragila, Allyson Felix, Joanna Hayes, Monique Henderson, and Meb Keflezighi and Jeremy Wariner. NFL football stars Terry Bradshaw, Michael Carter, Russ Francis, Bob Hayes, James Lofton, Art Monk, and Mel Renfro also competed at the Golden West.
Meet schedule will include Freshman Mile, Freshman 100 Meter and Freshman 400 Meter events for both boys and girls!
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50th Anniversary GWI Stories and Athlete Profiles

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Alitta Boyd Profile by Bob Burns: After winning the triple and long jumps at GWI, two weeks later
she doubles at the Junior Nationals in Eugene with nation-leading marks. ...read more
Photo by Greg Ashman
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Jordan Hasay at the 50th Anniversary GWI - story by Patrick Ibarra
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dystatcal.com GWI Reports
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Tavaris Tate - is returning to GWI with a nation-leading 400 meter time (read more...)
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Jordan Hasay - To compete in a record 5th Golden West (read more...)
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Mason Finley - On track for a GWI Discus record (read more...)
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Taylor Christian (Sandy Creek HS, GA) doubles in the LJ & TJ (photo by Greg Ashman)
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Jordan Hasay (Arroyo Grande, CA) wins the 800 meter event.
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D'Angelo Cherry (Mt. Zion; Jonesboro, GA.) sets a #10 all time 100m best for all conditions (10.17w). (photo by Don Gosney)
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