Allyson Felix

Allyson Nicole Felix was born on November 18, 1985, at Los Angeles. Her father Paul Felix was an ordained minister at the Master's Seminary in Sun Valley and their mother Marlean Felix was a school teacher at Balboa Magnet Elementary School. Felix was an athletically inclined child and developed a passion to sprint during her time at Los Angeles Baptist High School. Felix finished second in the U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championships in only 10 weeks after her very first tryout. Felix graduated from high school in 2003, and became a part of Adidas an agreement as an athlete in professional competition. In the following year, she enrolled at the University of Southern California studying elementary education. The following year, Felix earned her first Olympic medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Greece setting an all-time junior world record sprinting 200 meters in 22.18 seconds. At the 2005 Helsinki World Championships, Felix became the youngest winner in the world for the distance of 200 meters. In 2007, she won the title against her Jamaican opponent Veronica Campbell. Felix competed at her first Olympics during Beijing London Rio de Janeiro as well as Tokyo always finishing in the top three in all her competitions.