November 25, 1961 (1961-11-25) (age 62) Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Height
5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight
74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Country
United States
Sport
Freestyle wrestling
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
1988 Seoul
74 kg
1992 Barcelona
74 kg
World Championships
1989 Martigny
74 kg
1991 Varna
74 kg
Pan American Games
1991 Havana
74 kg
Collegiate Wrestling
Representing the Oklahoma State Cowboys
NCAA Division I Championships
1984 East Rutherford
150 lb
1983 Oklahoma City
150 lb
1982 Ames
150 lb
Kenny Dale Monday (born November 25, 1961) is an 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 is a three-time Olympian.
Monday attended Booker T. Washington High School in 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.
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 1989 World Championship and a series of USA Freestyle championships in 1985, 1988, 1991, and 1996. He won the Olympic Championship in 1988 in a 5–2 overtime win against the Soviet Union's Adlan Varaev.
Monday was a silver medalist in the 1992 Olympics and placed sixth in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. In 2001, Monday was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.[1]
On March 28, 1997, Monday competed in a mixed martial arts bout defeating John Lewis by TKO in round two at Extreme Fighting 4, which was held in Des Moines, Iowa.
Monday has also worked as the wrestling coach with the Blackzilians, a mixed martial arts camp based in Boca Raton, Florida.[2][3] He is married to Sabrina Goodwin Monday (National Sales Director for Mary Kay Cosmetics) and has three children. Both his sons would become NCAA Division I wrestlers. His oldest son Kennedy wrestled for the University of North Carolina,[4] and his younger son Quincy currently[when?] wrestles for Princeton University. Monday currently[when?] resides in North Carolina.[citation needed]
On August 15, 2022, Monday was announced as the head wrestling coach of the resurrected Morgan State University program that last competed in 1997.[5]
^Kenny Monday. National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
^"Olympic wrestling legend, Kenny Monday joins the Blackzilian camp as wrestling coach". Bloody Elbow. 5 April 2013. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
^"Wrestling coach Kenny Monday let go by 'Blackzilians'". Yahoo Sports. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
^"Kennedy Monday". University of North Carolina Athletic Department. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
^"Olympic Gold Medalist Selected to Lead Revived Wrestling Program at Morgan State University". 15 August 2022.
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