Brandon Slay

Brandon Slay (born October 14, 1975 in Amarillo, Texas) won an Olympic gold medal for the United States in wrestling. He currently lives in Dallas where he works for [http://www.streamrealty.com|Stream Realty Partners] , a commercial real estate firm. [cite web | title = About Brandon | publisher = BrandonSlay.com | url = http://www.brandonslay.com/bio.asp | accessdate = 2007-05-18 ]

High School Years

He went to high school at Tascosa High School where he was All-State honors in football and was a three-time State Champion in wrestling.

College Years

Slay studied business at the University of Pennsylvania, and received a degree from the Wharton School of Business. He wrestled all four years at Pennsylvania and was runner up and All American in the NCAA tournament at 167 pounds twice. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.

Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney

Slay won the gold medal at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia after losing in the finals to Alexander Leipold of Germany. Leipold then tested positive for the steroid Nandrolone and the Gold Medal was awarded to Slay. [cite web | title = Slay: 'There more to life than gold' | publisher = ESPN | date = 2000-10-17 | url = http://espn.go.com/oly/summer00/news/2000/1017/822771.html | accessdate = 2007-05-18 ] Slay is a devout Christian and runs Greater Gold which does speeches and camps about Christ and wrestling.

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