Brandon Slay (born October 14, 1975) won an Olympic gold medal for the

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. Slay also help found Dallas Dynamite wrestling club in Dallas, TX. Slay currently is the Assistant National Freestyle Coach and National Freestyle Resident Coach for USA wrestling, stationed at the Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs.

High school years

He graduated from

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, where he was a three-time State Champion in wrestling.

College years

Slay studied business at the

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and received a degree from the Wharton School of Business. He wrestled all four years at Pennsylvania, where he was a two-time national runner-up and All-American in the NCAA tournament at 167 pounds. He is a member of the

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fraternity.

2000 Olympic Games in Sydney

Slay won the gold medal at the

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in Sydney, Australia after losing in the finals to

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. Leipold would test positive for the steroid

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, and the Gold Medal was awarded to Slay.

Personal life

Slay is a devout

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and runs Greater Gold, which does speeches and camps about

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and wrestling. In 2016, Slay was inducted into the

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as a Distinguished Member.Brandon Slay
''National Wrestling Hall of Fame''. Retrieved September 17, 2022.

References

Sportspeople from Amarillo, Texas Tascosa High School alumni Living people Olympic gold medalists for the United States in wrestling Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics American male sport wrestlers 1975 births Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics {{US-wrestling-bio-stub