“White Lightning” and “one of the best high school athletes that we’ve seen ever” – These are some of the things Matthew Boling was called back in 2019 when he was still a college athlete. Fast forward to 2025, he has gone pro two years ago, forfeiting his final year of college at the University of Georgia, and still lives up to the hype he had created years ago. Just look at last year where he won a silver medal at the World Indoor Championships. And this has brought significant limelight to the athlete.

Born on June 20, 2000, to parents Mark and Monique Boling, the 24-year-old had a rather highlighted collegiate career. He has been the 2020 SEC Indoor Men’s Freshman Runner of the Year and 2021 SEC Indoor Men’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year while he studied Business Administration in Athens, Georgia. This was one aspect of his life, let’s look at the other aspects now.

What is Matthew Boling’s ethnicity?

Despite being born and raised in Houston, Texas, and going to the Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, a high school that boasts a sprawling campus that would make small colleges jealous, what we know from the report by writer and traveler Richard Pennington, Boiling has the European blood in him. His ancestors hail from the peninsula of peninsulas. Further, he races for the United States of America and he’s so good at it. After all, we all know how he has defeated Lance Nathan Broome, Dorian Hewitt, Cameron Crowe, Trevion McCalla, JeVaughn Stanley, Taurean Muhammad, and Emunn Parker. But what drives him?

His faith in god might be one of those factors as the track and field athlete “got into like an athlete’s devotional group” while in college. Boling comes from a Christian family and has attended private Christian schools since kindergarten such as River Oaks Baptist School. But is he a Christian?

What is Matthew Boling’s religion?

When it comes to religion; Boling follows Christianity. The man is a follower of Jesus but he does not follow the catholic principles; he is a Christian but not Catholic in simpler words. In the starting month of 2022, while being in college, the track and field athlete got baptized. Reflecting on the same, he said, “Kept learning more about my faith and so I felt like to me it was an important way to kind of like outwardly express my faith.”

As a young athlete who was still at school, Boling got a lot of attention and this attention taught him “to stay humble and give God the glory and to know who’s there for you.”

That is quite a lot of wisdom from the young athlete. As he continues to grow in his sport, we hope he looks to deliver even better performances.