The Highest Point Foundation was created in 2009 by Dashon Goldson to provide motivational outlets for youth through sports programs such as camps and clinics – to take them off the streets and onto the field, making more productive use of their time and physical abilities. Dashon vows to encourage individuals to reach “the highest point” in life through the lessons he has personally learned in the sport of football as well as through various programs and initiatives under his Foundation.

Dashon experienced organized football for the first time in the fifth grade, playing for the Tri-City Falcons in Harbor City, California. During his junior year at Narbonne High School, he started to recognize his talents and discover that football was a big part of his life and that he had a lot of passion for the sport. During his senior year at Narbonne, he totaled 130 tackles and six interceptions, with two returned for touchdowns.

After high school, Dashon spent a year honing his football skills at Coffeyville Community Collage in Kansas (where he was also named Conference MVP) and then took advantage of a full-ride athletic scholarship to be a Husky at the University of Washington (where he played 43 games and recorded a total of 293 tackles, six interceptions, two forced fumbles and one sack). In 2006, he graduated with a degree in American Ethnic Studies.

It was towards the end of his senior year in college, when he got invited to the NFL combine, that he’d have both the honor and realization that football could not only be a big part of his life, it could also be his career. Dashon applied the same self-determination and relentless hard work that he did throughout his life, and eventually got selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the 4th round (126th overall) of the 2007 NFL draft.