Brandon Slay won an Olympic gold medal for the United States in wrestling at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia.  Slay is a member of USA Wrestling and has coaching duties through the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the 2016 Junior World Championships in Macon, France and the 2016 Cadet World Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia. 

 

The Pennsylvania RTC serves the wrestling community of the Mid-Atlantic Region, which includes wrestling hotbeds in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and surrounding states. Included in the program are training opportunities for elite wrestlers on the Senior level, athletes who compete at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University, and top high school and youth athletes from the region. The Pennsylvania RTC is the only current RTC which is affiliated with two NCAA Div. I programs.

 

Slay joined USA Wrestling’s National staff in January 2009. In addition to coaching the US Olympic Training Center resident program in Colorado Springs, he has been responsible for USAW’s age-group developmental program, which has won 19 medals under his leadership. At the Cadet level, the USA has won nine medals, including six gold medals, and has placed third in the team standings both years. At the Junior level, the USA boasts 10 medals over the last two years, including a gold medal, and has placed second and fourth in the team standings.   During Slay’s tenure on the staff, the USA has won 10 medals at the Senior World Championships, including three gold medals by Jordan Burroughs. At the 2012 Olympics, the USA won three medals, with champions Jordan Burroughs and Jake Varner and bronze medalist Coleman Scott.

 

Slay won a gold medal at 76 kg/167.5 lbs. at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. He defeated Olympic and World Champion Bouvaisa Saitiev of Russia in the pool competition in Sydney, one of the greatest wins in American wrestling history. Saitiev went on to win three Olympic gold medals.

 

Slay won the 2000 U.S. National Championships in Las Vegas, Nev., and claimed the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, held in Dallas, Texas. He was a U.S. Olympic Training Center resident athlete for two full seasons when he became an Olympic gold medalist.

 

Among the international competitions that Slay won included the test event for the 2000 Olympics, the 1999 Five Continents Cup in Sydney, Australia. He won two University Nationals titles, and was also a champion at the Dave Schulz Memorial International. Slay won two Cadet World medals in Greco-Roman and also competed on a U.S. Junior World Team in freestyle.

 

He was a two-time NCAA runner-up competing for the Univ. of Pennsylvania, where he received a degree from the Wharton School of Business. Originally from Amarillo, Texas, Slay won three state titles for Tascosa High School, and was an five-time all-district football player.

 

After the Olympics, Slay started an organization called Greater Gold, which assisted youth in reach their full academic and athletic potential while planting Biblical seeds of truth. He was a board member and on the staff of the Dallas Dynamite, a non-profit wrestling organization in Dallas that trains and mentors young athletes. While working with the club, he worked with athletes Bo Nickal, Nick Reenan and Jack Mueller, who have been successful on the national and international levels. Slay is a respected public speaker and wrestling clinician.

 

Slay stated in a recent article that he is “excited about the opportunity to continue to coach Senior-level athletes as well as the developmental athletes in the region. At the Pennsylvania RTC, we plan to recruit, mentor, and coach the top wrestlers in the nation and the world. Plus, as a Penn alumni, I get the opportunity to return to Philadelphia to be a contributor in building up the programs at Penn and Drexel.”

 

Coach Slay is the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Regional Training Center (PRTC), which is located in Philadelphia, Pa.  PRTC is a non-profit organization that is dependent on donations to fund Coach Slay and four wrestlers’ training in an environment that specializes in the international styles of Freestyle and Greco Roman wrestling with the ultimate goal of becoming World and Olympic Champions.  The PRTC website includes 80 free wrestling videos. If you find the videos of value or this FREE clinic is of value to you, I ask that you go the PRTC website and make a tax deductible donation.  On the night of the clinic, you can make a donation via check or cash, but the website is the best method to do so for tax purposes as it is the only method to donate that will provide a receipt.