“Let’s do it again next year even bigger!🙏🏾🖤,” read Christian Coleman’s caption back in 2024 when he posted about the successful completion of the Christian Coleman Invitational. And bigger, has it not been? What started in 2020 with the participation of just a few schools and that too only from Georgia had a little less than 50 schools participating in the 2025 meet, which includes some schools from the neighboring states as well and has the two-time world champion Sha’Carri Richardson as chief guest. The Christian Coleman Invitational was hosted by the Westlake Lions Track and Field team on March 15, 2025. After the meet, Coleman came out penning down a message for the fans. And what did he say?

Coleman took to his Instagram story today to reshare a combined post made by the hilightssportsmedia, Coach Watson, and Coach Cage. He captioned it, “Great turn out for the CC invitational. Truly motivational to receive so much love and be able to touch the youth in the sport that has given me so much. Already looking forward to next year.” Every year around a thousand students show up at the invitational to compete and to impress the three-time world champion. Motivated by such passion and his desire to promote the sport in the community, Coleman is already focused on next year.

The post featured some insights from the invitation, like the picture of Westlake coaches, Watson and Cage along with the man of the moment Coleman himself, holding a jacket that read all of his big career accolades, “@_coleman2 Meet live from @westlaketfxc. @coachcage x @coachswatson held a great event stay tuned for more pics & videos from this great event.” Coleman was seen blessing someone with a signed shoe in one of the pictures, and in the last picture, there was an all-smiling Sha’Carri Richardson, flashing her big smile.  “Even special guest @itsshacarri was in attendance for this great day of track & field,” the caption further read.

The past 6 years have only seen growth in the CC Invitational. In 2022, the two-time Diamond League winner said in an Instagram post, “Looking forward to next year being even better!” posting a video of that year’s meet. Few schools participated in the meet that year. Turning to 2025, the field grew significantly, expanding to about 40 high school teams from Georgia alone, and like Westlake coach, Jason Cage said, “so it’s growing and it’s going nation wide.” The meet had additional teams from Florida and Alabama joining the competition.

Coleman, along with his girlfriend, made sure the two thanked the fans who made the meet such a big spectacle. They signed autographs and clicked pictures, and one fan even got his Nike spikes signed. And, his partner had some sweet words for him!

For Sha’Carri Richardson, Christian Coleman is the “Chosen one”

The man who the invitational is named after made sure to have a meet and greet with the fans. Accompanied by his girlfriend, the two can be seen signing autographs for the fans in the story shared by the Georgia native. He wrote in the story, “Keep inspiring the youth & the world 🌍 @itsshacarri 📈 I promise we right behind ya 🖤.” Sha’Carri definitely is a great inspiration to the youth, especially after the Nike ad, and she also didn’t miss out on praising her partner.

The American track and field sprinter reposted her boyfriend’s story and wrote, “You the chosen one 🤞🏽 Thank you for all the things you do for your community! We got you! @_coleman2.” Yes, definitely with events like the CC invitational, the 29-year-old is making enough contributions to the track and field community by providing a fierce competitive ground to the young runners, and Sha’Carri Richardson recognizes that.

Richardson and Coleman were first believed to be together at the 2023 World Athletics Championship in Budapest when the 60m phenom couldn’t contain his enthusiasm as he tackled his sweetheart after winning the Women’s 4x100m Relay Final. In 2025, both of them are standing still, signing autographs and clicking pictures with fans at the sixth annual Christian Coleman Invitational.