DARVIS PATTON

Events: Sprints
Height: 6-0
Weight: 165
PRs: 100m - 9.89 (2008); 200m - 20.03 (2003)
Born: Dec. 4, 1977, in Dallas, Texas
Current Residence: Ft. Worth, Texas
High School: Lake Highlands (Dallas) '96 HS
Colleges: Garden City CC '98, Texas Christian '01
Coach: Monte Stratton
Agent: Claude Bryan
Club: adidas

Career Highlights: 2004 Olympic Games 4x100m gold medalist; 2008 Olympic Games 100m finalist; Two-time World Outdoor 4x100m gold medalist ('03, '07); 2007 Pan American Games 100m silver medalist and 4x100m bronze medalist; 2003 World Outdoor 200m silver medalist; 2003 USA Outdoor 200m champion; 2002 USA Indoor, Outdoor runner-up.

In addition to qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Team with his third-place finish in the 100m final at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., Patton posted a personal best in the quarterfinal with his blistering time of 9.89 seconds. Patton enjoyed a rebirth in 2007 highlighted by his eighth-place 100m finish at the USA Outdoor Championships, runner-up placing at the Pan Am Games and gold medal winning performance in the 4x100m relay at the World Outdoor Championships in Osaka, Japan. Patton endured a frustrating 2005 season, which saw him hampered throughout the campaign with injuries to his groin and hip. Patton closed out his 2003 campaign with a U.S. Outdoor title and a gold (4x100m) and silver (200m) medal at World Outdoors, firmly establishing himself as one of the worlds top sprinters. One of the most versatile performers in TCU track & field history, Darvis Doc Patton garnered seven All-America certificates during his senior year alone, and notched ten All-America honors in just two seasons at TCU. Patton was a late-bloomer coming out of Dallas Lake Highlands High School, where he did not make the schools relay team. He spent two years at Garden City Community College, where he was an eight-time JUCO All-American, including the 1998 NJCAA long jump champion. In 2000, he became the first TCU athlete to win an indoor conference long jump title and the first Horned Frog to win a conference long jump crown of any kind since 1970 when he won the WAC indoor title…Though he finished as the runner-up at U.S. Indoors and Outdoors, his consistent performances earned him the #1 U.S. ranking in 2002.

2008: 8th at Olympic Games (10.03)…3rd at Olympic Trials in 100m (9.84w)...DNF in 4x400m relay at Olympic Games…1st in quarterfinal (9.89PR)...2nd at adidas Track Classic (10.06)...3rd at Reebok Grand Prix (10.07)…best of 9.89.
2007: World Outdoor 4x100m gold medalist (37.78)...Pan Am runner-up (10.17)...Pan Am 4x100m bronze medalist (38.88)...8th at USA Outdoors (10.26)…1st at Arlington (10.13)…6th at adidas Track Classic (10.11w) and 10.11PR in heats…5th in 200m at Reebok Grand Prix (20.49)…10.36 at Stockholm…2nd at Luzern (10.26)…ranked #7 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 10.11.
2006: 3rd at Road to Eugene (10.19)…2nd in 200 at Thessaloniki (20.50).
2005: 7th at Jamaica (10.27)…did not compete at USA Outdoors…best of 10.27.
2004: 4th at Olympic Trials (20.32)…Olympic 4x100m relay gold medalist; 1st round winner at Kingston in 100m (10.12)…1st in Arlington in 100m (9.89w)…2nd at Fort Worth in 200m (20.07w)…ranked #10 in world (#5 U.S.) at 200m, #7 U.S. at 100m by T&FN…bests of 10.12 & 20.17.
2003: World Outdoor 200m silver medalist (20.31)…World Outdoor 4x100m relay gold medalist (3rd leg 38.06)…USA Outdoor Champion (20.15.)…1st in semifinal at World Outdoors (20.03PR)…2nd at Lausanne (20.14)…1st at adidas Boston Indoor Games 200m (20.73)... best of 20.03…ranked #2 in the world (#2 U.S.) by T&FN.
2002: 2nd at USA Indoors (20.95); 2nd at USA Outdoors (20.31)…2nd in Brussels (20.12PR)…2nd in Rome (20.14)…won the 200m at the Norwich Union Challenge in Glasgow and was named the Outstanding performer of the meet (20.16)…1st in London (20.25)…1st in Rethymnon (20.26)…1st at Yokohama (20.29)…4th in LJ at Padua (8.04m/26-4.5)…ranked #4 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 200m, #9 at LJ in U.S. by T&FN…bests of 20.12PR & 8.04m/26-4.5.
2001: 4th at USA Outdoors (20.72)…3rd at NCAA Outdoors 200m (20.59)…4th at NCAA Outdoor long jump (7.97m/26-1.75)…ran second leg on TCU’s NCAA winning 4x100m relay (38.58)… ranked #7 in U.S. at 200m by T&FN…bests of 20.31 & 8.12m/26-7.75.
2000: 5tj in semis at Olympic Trials (20.56)…Western Athletic Conference champion at 200m & long jump…4th in 200m at NCAA Outdoors (20.59)…8th in LJ at NCAA Outdoors (7.59m/24-11)…ran 2nd leg on TCU’s NCAA 4x100m relay (dnf)…bests of 20.29 & 8.04m/26-4.5.
1999: Did not compete.
1998: Junior College long jump champion…4th in 200m at JUCO Outdoors…bests of 20.49w & 8.06m/26-5.5w.

9/30/08