Matthew Boling

Boling gained national attention during the Spring of 2019 for his accomplishments in high school track competitions. In March he leaped the farthest in the long jump for a high school athlete in ten years with a 26' 3.5" (8.01 m) mark at the Texas Relays, and then bested the high school all-conditions 100 m record, breaking the 10-second barrier with a wind-assisted 9.98 seconds run on April 27, 2019. Boling finished his high school track career in May at the Texas state championships by running a 44.74 second anchor in the 4 × 400 m relay for the Strake Jesuit Crusaders, coming from behind to win in the fastest time for a high school team in the nation that year (3:10.56).

Boling gained national attention when he ran a wind-aided 9.98 seconds 100 m in the Region 6A-3 track meet on April 27, 2019. Boling set the national high school record of 10.13 s the next month. Boling has been nicknamed "White Lightning", although he has stated that he does not like the moniker and would prefer just "Matt".

Gatorade awarded Boling its National Boys Track & Field Player of the Year honors for 2018–19. He joined University of Georgia's Georgia Bulldogs track and field team in late 2019.

Matthew Boling (born June 20, 2000) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the 100 meters, 200 meters, and long jump events. He won four gold medals at the 2019 Pan American U20 Championships in the 100 m, 200 m, 4 × 100 meters relay and 4 × 400 meters relay, and helped set world under-20 records in both of the relay races for the United States. He also ran in the semi-final for the American 4 × 400 m relay team at the 2018 World U20 Championships that went on to earn silver in the final.