Olympic gold medalist from Wayland celebrated

  • “TMS DAY” Plainview mayor Charles Starnes (left) presents Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock with a copy of a proclamation declaring Feb. 7, 2022 as Tamyra Mensah-Stock Day in the city. | WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY / CHRISTINA LONGORIA
    “TMS DAY” Plainview mayor Charles Starnes (left) presents Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock with a copy of a proclamation declaring Feb. 7, 2022 as Tamyra Mensah-Stock Day in the city. | WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY / CHRISTINA LONGORIA
  • TAMYRA MARIAMA MENSAH-STOCK (left) is an American wrestler who competes in women's freestyle wrestling. She won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on August 3, 2021, and is the first black woman to have done so.
    TAMYRA MARIAMA MENSAH-STOCK (left) is an American wrestler who competes in women's freestyle wrestling. She won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on August 3, 2021, and is the first black woman to have done so.
    Admittedly being someone who cries easily, Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock wasn’t ready for what she walked into when she stopped by Plainview’s City Hall on Monday morning. “I just stopped in to say hi,” she said, tears rolling down her cheeks. Plainview Mayor Charles Starnes, who taught Stock in her college business courses at Wayland Baptist University, ...

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