Tamyra Mensah-Stock named 2019 USA Wrestling Women’s Wrestler of the Year
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by Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling
Tamyra Mensah-Stock celebrates after winning her 2019 World title.
Tamyra Mensah-Stock (Colorado Springs, Colo./Titan Mercury WC/USOPTC) was named 2019 Women's Wrestler of the Year by USA Wrestling. It is the second time in her career winning this prestigious award, to go along with the 2017 award.
Mensah-Stock won the 2019 Senior World Championships at 68 kg in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan in September, her first World title and second consecutive World medal after winning a World bronze medal in 2018. She was one of three U.S. women to win World gold medals in 2019. Mensah-Stock finished the entire 2019 year undefeated.
Mensah-Stock was also named United World Wrestling’s Women’s Wrestler of the Year in 2019, based upon her results in UWW Ranking Series competitions.
At the Senior World Championships, Mensah-Stock defeated World champion and Olympic medalist Jenny Fransson of Sweden in the finals, 8-2. She won five matches in the event, all in dominant fashion, including a 10-1 victory over 2016 Olympic champion Sara Dosho of Japan in the quarterfinals.
Overall, Mensah-Stock won gold medals in five other international events, and also went undefeated in the 2019 Women’s World Cup in November in Narita, Japan.
She won the Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix in Russia in January, competing up a weight class at 72 kg, defeating Yuka Kagami of Japan in the finals. She became the first U.S. wrestler, male or female, to win the prestigious Yarygin event three straight years.
Mensah-Stock won two Pan American tournaments in the same year. At the Pan American Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina in April, Mensah-Stock defeated Yudaris Sanchez Rodriguez of Cuba in the finals. At the Pan American Games, a multi-sport event held every four years, Mensah-Stock won the gold medal with a victory over Oliva Di Bacco of Canada in the finals bout.
Other international gold medals for Mensah-Stock in 2019 included the Dan Kolov International in Bulgaria in March and the City of Sassari Tournament in Italy in May. She also won her match in the Beat the Streets Los Angeles Benefit in March against Maria Garcia Bautista of Mexico.
Her domestic title came at Final X in June, when she beat Alexandria Glaude in two straight matches, by technical fall and by fall, which qualified her for the U.S. World Team.
Mensah-Stock has competed in three Senior World Championships, and was also a silver medalist at the 2014 University World Championships. She boasts a pair of U.S. Open titles, in 2016 and 2018. She won the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, but did not compete in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games because the USA did not qualify her weight class at the Olympic Games.
Mensah-Stock is currently a resident-athlete at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. She was a two-time WCWA national champion for Wayland Baptist University. She won two Texas state high school titles for Morton Ranch High School in Katy, Texas.
PAST WOMEN'S WRESTLER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS
2019 – Tamyra Mensah-Stock, Colorado Springs, Colo., Titan Mercury WC
2018 – Sarah Hildebrandt, Colorado Springs, Colo., New York AC/OTC
2017 – Tamyra Mensah-Stock, Colorado Springs, Colo., Titan Mercury WC
2016 – Helen Maroulis, New York, N.Y., Sunkist Kids
2015 – Adeline Gray, Colorado Springs, Colo., New York AC
2014 – Adeline Gray, Colorado Springs, Colo., New York AC
2013 – Alyssa Lampe, Colorado Springs, Colo., Sunkist Kids
2012 – Clarissa Chun, Colorado Springs, Colo., Sunkist Kids
2011 – Ali Bernard, New Ulm, Minn., Gator WC
2010 – Elena Pirozhkova, Colorado Springs, Colo., Gator WC
2009 – Deanna Rix, Colorado Springs, Colo., New York AC
2008 - Randi Miller, Colorado Springs, Colo., Gator WC
2007 - Kristie Marano, Colorado Springs, Colo., New York AC
2006 - Kristie Marano, Colorado Springs, Colo., New York AC
2005 - Iris Smith, Colorado Springs, Colo. U.S. Army
2004 - Sara McMann, Lock Haven, Pa., Sunkist Kids
2003 - Patricia Miranda, Colorado Springs, Colo., Dave Schultz WC
2002 - Kristie Marano, Albany, N.Y., ATWA
2001 - Toccara Montgomery, Cleveland, Ohio, Sunkist Kids
2000 - Kristie Marano, Albany, N.Y., ATWA
1999 - Tricia Saunders, Phoenix, Ariz., Sunkist Kids
1998 - Kristie Stenglein, Albany, N.Y., ATWA
1997 - Sandra Bacher, San Jose, Calif., Dave Schultz WC
1996 - Tricia Saunders, Phoenix, Ariz., Sunkist Kids
1995 - Vickie Zummo, Hamburg, N.J., New York AC
1994 - Shannon Williams, Ontario, Calif., Sunkist Kids
1993 - Tricia Saunders, Phoenix, Ariz., Sunkist Kids
Tamyra Mensah-Stock (Colorado Springs, Colo./Titan Mercury WC/USOPTC) was named 2019 Women's Wrestler of the Year by USA Wrestling. It is the second time in her career winning this prestigious award, to go along with the 2017 award.
Mensah-Stock won the 2019 Senior World Championships at 68 kg in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan in September, her first World title and second consecutive World medal after winning a World bronze medal in 2018. She was one of three U.S. women to win World gold medals in 2019. Mensah-Stock finished the entire 2019 year undefeated.
Mensah-Stock was also named United World Wrestling’s Women’s Wrestler of the Year in 2019, based upon her results in UWW Ranking Series competitions.
At the Senior World Championships, Mensah-Stock defeated World champion and Olympic medalist Jenny Fransson of Sweden in the finals, 8-2. She won five matches in the event, all in dominant fashion, including a 10-1 victory over 2016 Olympic champion Sara Dosho of Japan in the quarterfinals.
Overall, Mensah-Stock won gold medals in five other international events, and also went undefeated in the 2019 Women’s World Cup in November in Narita, Japan.
She won the Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix in Russia in January, competing up a weight class at 72 kg, defeating Yuka Kagami of Japan in the finals. She became the first U.S. wrestler, male or female, to win the prestigious Yarygin event three straight years.
Mensah-Stock won two Pan American tournaments in the same year. At the Pan American Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina in April, Mensah-Stock defeated Yudaris Sanchez Rodriguez of Cuba in the finals. At the Pan American Games, a multi-sport event held every four years, Mensah-Stock won the gold medal with a victory over Oliva Di Bacco of Canada in the finals bout.
Other international gold medals for Mensah-Stock in 2019 included the Dan Kolov International in Bulgaria in March and the City of Sassari Tournament in Italy in May. She also won her match in the Beat the Streets Los Angeles Benefit in March against Maria Garcia Bautista of Mexico.
Her domestic title came at Final X in June, when she beat Alexandria Glaude in two straight matches, by technical fall and by fall, which qualified her for the U.S. World Team.
Mensah-Stock has competed in three Senior World Championships, and was also a silver medalist at the 2014 University World Championships. She boasts a pair of U.S. Open titles, in 2016 and 2018. She won the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, but did not compete in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games because the USA did not qualify her weight class at the Olympic Games.
Mensah-Stock is currently a resident-athlete at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. She was a two-time WCWA national champion for Wayland Baptist University. She won two Texas state high school titles for Morton Ranch High School in Katy, Texas.
PAST WOMEN'S WRESTLER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS
2019 – Tamyra Mensah-Stock, Colorado Springs, Colo., Titan Mercury WC
2018 – Sarah Hildebrandt, Colorado Springs, Colo., New York AC/OTC
2017 – Tamyra Mensah-Stock, Colorado Springs, Colo., Titan Mercury WC
2016 – Helen Maroulis, New York, N.Y., Sunkist Kids
2015 – Adeline Gray, Colorado Springs, Colo., New York AC
2014 – Adeline Gray, Colorado Springs, Colo., New York AC
2013 – Alyssa Lampe, Colorado Springs, Colo., Sunkist Kids
2012 – Clarissa Chun, Colorado Springs, Colo., Sunkist Kids
2011 – Ali Bernard, New Ulm, Minn., Gator WC
2010 – Elena Pirozhkova, Colorado Springs, Colo., Gator WC
2009 – Deanna Rix, Colorado Springs, Colo., New York AC
2008 - Randi Miller, Colorado Springs, Colo., Gator WC
2007 - Kristie Marano, Colorado Springs, Colo., New York AC
2006 - Kristie Marano, Colorado Springs, Colo., New York AC
2005 - Iris Smith, Colorado Springs, Colo. U.S. Army
2004 - Sara McMann, Lock Haven, Pa., Sunkist Kids
2003 - Patricia Miranda, Colorado Springs, Colo., Dave Schultz WC
2002 - Kristie Marano, Albany, N.Y., ATWA
2001 - Toccara Montgomery, Cleveland, Ohio, Sunkist Kids
2000 - Kristie Marano, Albany, N.Y., ATWA
1999 - Tricia Saunders, Phoenix, Ariz., Sunkist Kids
1998 - Kristie Stenglein, Albany, N.Y., ATWA
1997 - Sandra Bacher, San Jose, Calif., Dave Schultz WC
1996 - Tricia Saunders, Phoenix, Ariz., Sunkist Kids
1995 - Vickie Zummo, Hamburg, N.J., New York AC
1994 - Shannon Williams, Ontario, Calif., Sunkist Kids
1993 - Tricia Saunders, Phoenix, Ariz., Sunkist Kids
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