Athletics West was before my time and wikipedia and google seem to be worthless on providing information about it, and the search function on this site only led to a thread telling someone to use the search function, a thread selling gear, and a thread asking who the first athlete to sign was. So I was curious if anyone had much in-depth knowledge about Athletics West. All I really know is that I see a lot of pictures of people wearing Athletics West gear in my high school coach's photos from when he was a world-class distance runner and that Mary Slaney and Virgin ran for them. Who started it? When was it started? Who funded it? Were they centrally-located like the OTC groups or were they as spread out as, say, Adidas athletes? When/why did it disband?