HIGH SCHOOL Travel Expense Compensation Stipends

• $250.00 to 1st, 2nd, 3rd CIF State Meet finishers, plus automatic placement in the Sunday Finals (entry deadline: June 2, 2013).
• $500 to Top 2 National HS Leaders as of May 27, plus automatic placement in the Sunday Finals.
• We invite additional High School athletes from around the state and the country to enter and petition for travel expense compensation awards of $500, $300 and $200 for 2013 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place marks.

HIGH SCHOOL Travel Expense Compensation Awards

• Sunday Individual Finals 1st, 2nd, 3rd - $500, $300, $200
• Relay: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - $1,500, $1,000, $500
• Overall Club Teams 1st, 2nd, 3rd * - $3,000, $2,000, $1,000; *Club team members must be registered with USATF and be a declared member of the USATF-registered club with whom they are competing.

OPEN Athletes Travel Expense Compensation Awards

• Sunday Individual Finals 1st, 2nd, 3rd - $500, $300, $200
• Check Schedules for Events.

Additional Details

• Total maximum per athlete combined travel compensation awards are $500.00 to California athletes and $750.00 for out of state athletes.
• Athletes with top 11-16 marks in the running events and top 7-12 marks in the field events will advance to compete in Sunday finals.
• Visit this page for more details about Sunday Finals advancement/placement and for travel expense compensation award information.
• Most recent Golden West Invitational website updates: 5/17/2013.

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About the Golden West Invitational

The Golden West Invitational brings together top high school athletes from throughout the country and provides them with the very highest levels of competition.

Past participants have represented the United States in every Olympic Games since 1964 and have filled more than 200 positions on the American Olympic Track & Field teams. They have won more than 90 medals, 48 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, Steve Prefontaine, Jim Ryun, Tommy Smith, and Dwight Stones. Recent Olympic medalists include Kerron Clement, Stacy Dragila, Allyson Felix, Hyleas Fountain, Joanna Hayes, Monique Henderson, Bershawn Jackson, Meb Keflezigh, David Neville, Lauryn Williams and Jeremy Wariner. NFL football stars Terry Bradshaw, Michael Carter, Russ Francis, Bob Hayes, James Lofton, Art Monk, Mel Renfro, and many more also competed at the Golden West.

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Stories, videos and photos from GWIs 2008-2012

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