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Kenny Monday
Residence:
Garland, TX
College: Oklahoma State University
High
School: Booker T. Washington
Olympic
gold medalist and three-time All-American wrestler from Oklahoma State
University. He began
wrestling at age six at a YMCA after-school program and grew up idolizing
Olympic wrestler Wayne Wells.
Monday
attended Booker T. Washington High School and won four state titles and the
1977 Junior National championship. He never lost a dual from seventh grade
through the end of high school and finished with a record of 140-0-1.
As an
All-American at OSU, Monday won the NCAA title in 1984 at 150 pounds. His
collegiate record of 121-12-2 contributed to the Cowboys winning two Big Eight
titles. He won the 1983 World Championship and a series of USA Freestyle
championships in 1985, 1988, 1991, and 1996. He won the World Championship
title in 1987 in a 2-2 overtime against the Soviet Union's
Adlan Varayer.
Monday
was a silver medalist in the 1992 Olympics and placed sixth in the 1996 Atlanta
Summer Olympics. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame
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