Editing Ato Boldon (section)

===Early life and junior career===
Boldon was born in [[Port of Spain]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]] to a [[Jamaicans|Jamaican]] mother, and [[Trinidadians|Trinidadian]] father, Hope and Guy Boldon. He attended [[Fatima College]] (secondary school) in Trinidad before leaving for the [[United States]] at age fourteen. In December 1989, as a soccer player at [[Jamaica High School (New York City)|Jamaica High School]] in [[Queens, New York|Queens]], [[New York City]], head track and field coach Joe Trupiano noticed his sprinting abilities during a soccer practice session.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Otterman|first1=Sharon|title=Jamaica High May Close, but Memories Will Live On|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/nyregion/24jamaica.html|access-date=18 July 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=22 January 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Longman|first1=Jere|title=TRACK & FIELD; Sprinter Is Breaking More Than Just Paper|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/29/sports/track-field-sprinter-is-breaking-more-than-just-paper.html|access-date=18 July 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=29 May 1996}}</ref>

In his first track season at age 16, Boldon finished with 21.20&nbsp;seconds in the [[200 metres]] and 48.40&nbsp;seconds in the [[400 metres]], recording a double win at the Queens County Championships in 1990, and earning [[Most valuable player|MVP]] honours. After transferring for his final year from Jamaica High to [[Piedmont Hills High School]] in [[San Jose, California|San Jose]], California, Boldon was selected to the San Jose Mercury News' Santa Clara all-county soccer team. He also continued to sprint, placing third in the 200&nbsp;m at the [[CIF California State Meet]] in 1991. Athletics became his primary focus and he won the Junior Olympic Title that summer in [[Durham, North Carolina|Durham]], North Carolina, in 200&nbsp;m.

At 18, Boldon represented [[Trinidad and Tobago]] at [[100 metres]] and 200&nbsp;m in the [[1992 Summer Olympics]] in [[Barcelona]] but did not qualify in the first round of either event. Boldon returned to the junior circuit, winning the 100&nbsp;m and 200&nbsp;m titles at the [[IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics]] in [[Seoul, South Korea]] to become the first double sprint champion in World Junior Championships history.

Boldon was also an [[NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship|NCAA Champion]] while enrolled as a [[sociology]] major at the [[UCLA|University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)]] in 1995 in the 200&nbsp;m. In 1996, he secured an NCAA 100&nbsp;m Championship in [[Eugene, Oregon|Eugene]], Oregon in the final race of his collegiate career, setting an NCAA meet record of 9.92.<ref>{{cite web |title=Outdoor Track and Field - Division I Men's |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/track_outdoor_champs_records/2006/MD1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225062313/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/track_outdoor_champs_records/2006/MD1.pdf |archive-date=2012-02-25 |url-status=live |publisher=NCAA |date=2006}}</ref> Boldon also held the collegiate 100&nbsp;m record with 9.90&nbsp;s from 1996 until it was broken by [[Travis Padgett]], who ran 9.89 s, in 2008. [[Ngonidzashe Makusha]] later equalled this record at the 2011 NCAA Championships in [[Des Moines]], [[Iowa]].<ref>[http://www.iaaf.org/WIM09/news/newsid=48935.html Padgett leads Millrose Games 60m field]. [[IAAF]] (17 January 2009). Retrieved on 26 January 2009.</ref>