Education
University of Southern California.
University of Southern California.
Born in Highland Park, Michigan, Rex Cawley still holds the record time for the 100 yard dash at Farmington High School that he set in 1959. He was Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1959.
He won the Amateur Athletic Union championships in 440-yard hurdles in 1963 and 1965 and as a University of Southern California student, he won a National Collegiate Athletic Association title in 440 yd hurdles in 1963. Cawley won the gold medal in Tokyo with a commanding performance in which he beat his nearest competitor John Cooper from Great Britain by 0.5 seconds.
