Kenny Monday

Kenny Monday is an Olympic gold medalist (the first USA Black Olympic wrestling champ) and three-time All-American wrestler from Oklahoma State University. He began wrestling at age six at a YMCA after-school program.

Monday attended Booker T. Washington High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma), where he won four state titles and the 1977 Junior National championship. He never lost a match from seventh grade through the end of high school and finished with a record of 140-0-1.

Kenny has two sons who wrestle for Princeton and North Carolina. You gotta hear who he thinks would win that matchup!

Also on this episode is Max Darrah, current Maryville University wrestler.

What do you think?

Yuri Maier

African American coaches in college wrestling point of view