Patton ran his fastest 200m time ever, dipping below the 20-second mark, in a windy final at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. His second-place finish in the race earned him a spot on his fourth World Outdoor Championships team. Patton also qualified for World Outdoor Championships two years ago with his runner-up finish at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships in 9.92w. The highlight of his 2009 season came on September 20 when he set a new personal best of 9.89 seconds in Shanghai. 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, he won the outdoor championship and earned the #1 U.S. ranking in 2002. His website is:
www.docpatton.com.