Toccara Montgomery

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1. https://nwhof.org/hall_of_fame/bio/14365 · National Wrestling Hall of Fame bio: silver at her first Senior World Championships in 2001; silver again in 2003; World Championships appearances in 2002 and 2003; first Black woman to wrestle for the United States at the Olympics, seventh in 2004; FILA International Women's Wrestler of the Year in 2001, the first American female and third American after John Smith and Stephen Neal; 2001 TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School Wrestler of the Year; four-time U.S. Open champion; USGWA national champion and three-time finalist; began at East Technical High School in Cleveland as one of the first members of the school's team; national champion as a senior after a runner-up finish as a junior; two-time national champion for the University of the Cumberlands; Cumberlands Athletic Hall of Fame 2006; Ohio High School Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame 2023 as its first female honoree; the Ohio female wrestler of the year award is named for her; first female head coach of a women's college wrestling team when hired at Lindenwood in 2010; graduate assistant at Cumberlands from 2006; now an assistant principal in the St. Louis Public School District, head girls wrestling coach at Clayton High School and an assistant with the St. Louis Warriors club; 2024 Distinguished Member. NOTE: this page dates the Cumberlands Athletic Hall of Fame induction to 2006, while the school's own release dates the Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame induction to January 26, 2019. It also gives her birth date as December 30, 1992, which conflicts with Olympedia's December 30, 1982.
2. https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/107580 · Olympedia: born 30 December 1982 in Cleveland, Ohio; 167 cm; Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club, Scottsdale; seventh at the 2004 Athens Olympics at 72 kg; 2001 World Championships second at 68 kg, 2003 World Championships second at 72 kg, 2002 World Championships 10th at 72 kg, 2003 Pan American Games first at 72 kg (Santo Domingo)
3. https://www.olympedia.org/results/134346 · Olympedia event page for the 2004 women's heavyweight freestyle (72 kg): held 22 to 23 August 2004 at the Olympiako Gymnastirio Ano Liosion in Ano Liossia; round-robin pools with the pool winner advancing to the semifinals; Wang Xu (China) gold, Gyuzel Manyurova (Russia) silver, Kyoko Hamaguchi (Japan) bronze; Montgomery seventh with 6 classification points and 11 technical points; 12 wrestlers from 12 countries
4. https://www.themat.com/news/2001/november/24/saturday-morning-update--montg-3914 · Nov. 23, 2001 USA Wrestling: Montgomery of Cleveland, Ohio and the Sunkist Kids qualified for the 68 kg gold-medal final at the World Freestyle Wrestling Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, in her first World Championships; she pinned Sveta Yaroshevitch of Russia in the semifinal for her fourth straight pin of the tournament; she faced Christine Nordhagen-Vierling of Canada in the final, a rematch of the 2001 Sunkist Kids International Open in Phoenix, which Montgomery won by pin; she was a Cumberland College freshman and a Junior World silver medalist a year earlier
5. https://www.themat.com/news/2002/january/14/rulon-gardner-and-toccara-mont-4253 · Jan. 13, 2002 USA Wrestling: Montgomery named 2001 U.S. Olympic Committee Female Wrestler of the Year; she won silver at 68 kg (149.75 pounds) at the Women's World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 22 to 25, her only loss coming 4-1 in the final to Christine Nordhagen-Vierling of Canada, with pins over her other four opponents; seven senior gold medals in 2001 at the Yasar Dogu in Turkey, the Manitoba Open in Canada, the Sunkist Kids International, the U.S. Nationals, the World Team Trials, the Hoover/Geller Keystone Open and the University Nationals; Outstanding Wrestler at the U.S. Nationals and the Sunkist Kids International Open; beat Kristie Marano at both the U.S. Nationals and the World Team Trials and Sandra Bacher at the U.S. Nationals; Junior World silver in 2001 after winning the FILA Junior Nationals, her second straight Junior World team; named 2001 FILA International Women's Wrestler of the Year, the first U.S. woman and third American after John Smith (1995) and Stephen Neal (1999); 2001 TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School Wrestler of the Year; she completed her high school career at East Technical High School in Cleveland in June 2001 and was then a freshman at Cumberland College in Kentucky
6. https://www.themat.com/news/2004/august/21/u-s--women-wrestlers-weigh-in--10522 · Aug. 20, 2004 USA Wrestling: 50 wrestlers weighed in for the first Olympic Games women's wrestling tournament in history and the United States entered one athlete in each of the four weight classes; at 72 kg (158.5 pounds) two-time World silver medalist Montgomery of Cleveland, Ohio and the New York AC drew five-time World champion Kyoko Hamaguchi of Japan in the opening round, with Stanka Zlateva of Bulgaria the third wrestler in the pool; Hamaguchi beat Montgomery in the 2003 World Championship final in New York City and Montgomery beat Hamaguchi a month later at the 2003 World Cup in Tokyo
7. https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/14149007-every-womens-college-national-wrestling-champion-since-2004 · FloWrestling's list of every women's college national champion since 2004: Toccara Montgomery (Cumberlands) won the 176-pound Women's College Nationals title in 2004, held in Marshall, Missouri with Missouri Valley the team champion, and again in 2006 in Williamsburg, Kentucky with Cumberlands the team champion under Kip Flanik; the Women's College National Championships ran 2004 to 2007, the WCWA from 2008 to 2020, the NCWWC from 2020, the NAIA sanctioned women's wrestling for 2022-23, and the NCAA hosted the first sanctioned women's national college championship in 2026
8. https://nwcaonline.com/news/2026/6/18/2026-trailblazer-awards.aspx · June 18, 2026 National Wrestling Coaches Association: Montgomery and Archie Randall are the 2026 Trailblazer Award honorees, nominated by the association's member collegiate women's wrestling coaches and to be presented July 31 at the Celebration of Women in Wrestling in Baltimore; her college career included a perfect 29-0 dual record, two Senior World teams and the 2004 Olympic team, where she placed seventh; two Senior World silver medals, two Junior World silver medals and two Pan American Championship golds; more than 40 top finishes in college; graduate assistant at Cumberlands while the Patriots won three straight Women's College Nationals team titles from 2006 to 2008; later head women's coach at Lindenwood; the first African American woman wrestler inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame; after leaving Lindenwood she pursued a career in education and stayed active coaching women and girls at the high school and youth levels. NOTE: this page calls the FILA honor the 2002 award and dates the Cumberlands Athletic Hall of Fame induction to 2006. It also carries 'two Senior World silver medals (one of which she earned in high school)' and 'The Ohio High School Athletic Association's Female Wrestler of the Year award is named in her honor.'
9. https://cumberlandspatriots.com/honors/hall-of-fame/toccara-montgomery/117 · University of the Cumberlands Hall of Fame: daughter of Paul and Tara Montgomery; graduated from Cumberlands in 2006 with a degree in elementary education and earned a master's in instructional leadership in 2009; 29-0 dual record; two Senior World teams; the 2004 Olympic team, seventh place; two Senior World silvers, two Junior World silvers, two Pan American Championship golds; won the first two college national championships ever held in women's wrestling; graduate assistant at Cumberlands from 2006, then head women's wrestling coach at Lindenwood in St. Charles, Missouri; now a kindergarten teacher at Normandy Schools Collaborative, assistant coach at Ritenour High School and assistant coach of the St. Louis Warriors youth club. NOTE: the current-job details here differ from the National Wrestling Hall of Fame's.
10. https://lindenwoodlions.com/sports/womens-wrestling/roster/coaches/toccara-montgomery/2818 · Lindenwood University athletics coach bio: Montgomery was head coach of the women's wrestling program from the fall of 2010; a member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic team, seventh at the Athens Games; national team member 2001 to 2006; two U.S. Senior National titles; two-time World Championships silver medalist; named FILA International Female Wrestler of the Year in 2001, the third American and first U.S. woman; a perfect 29-0 dual record at Cumberlands and the 2004 Women's Collegiate National Championship; the Cumberlands program ranked first or second nationally from 2004 to 2009. NOTE: the two Senior National titles here conflict with the four U.S. Open titles listed by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
11. https://www.olympics.com/en/athletes/toccara-montgomery · Olympics.com athlete page: one Games participation, Athens 2004, seventh at heavyweight freestyle (72 kilograms); year of birth 1982; 2001 World Championship second at 68 kg, 2003 World Championship second at 72 kg, 2002 World Championship 10th at 72 kg, 2003 Pan-American Games first at 72 kg
12. https://clevelandmagazine.com/articles/fastlane-toccara-montgomery/ · July 20, 2004 Cleveland Magazine interview: the East Tech graduate was a three-time U.S. national champion and two-time World Championship medalist heading into Athens, competing at the 158-pound weight class at age 21; her high school held wrestling tryouts for boys and girls and she did not know girls wrestled before that; she hated it after the first workout and stuck with it because it was challenging; her best move is the power double, taking both of an opponent's legs and sweeping them in; her first year of college was at Cumberland College in Kentucky
13. https://www.ucumberlands.edu/stories/cumberlands-announces-alumni-inducted-hall-fame · University of the Cumberlands, Jan. 16, 2019: the university announced four alumni inducted into the Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame at a ceremony held Saturday, January 26, 2019, listing 'Toccara Montgomery, '07 (Wrestling)'; the release repeats that she won the first two college national championships ever held for women's wrestling and earned more than 40 top finishes, awards and honors in college. NOTE: this release calls her class of '07 while the Cumberlands athletics hall of fame page says she graduated in 2006, so no graduation year is stated in the profile.
14. https://www.ucumberlands.edu/about · University of the Cumberlands 'About' page, University History: 'In 1913, following the acquisition of Highland College, Cumberland College was born. The school officially became University of the Cumberlands in 2005.'
15. https://www.themat.com/news/2003/september/17/thematside-view--by-gary-abbot-8303 · Sept. 16, 2003 USA Wrestling column by Gary Abbott: 'the 2003 World Championships of Freestyle Wrestling in Madison Square Garden in New York City'; the U.S. women's team placed second behind Japan and all seven American women won a medal