Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison.
University of Wisconsin–Madison.
She is a true pioneer of the sport of Women"s Freestyle Wrestling. She earned a total of five FILA Wrestling World Championships medals: four gold and one silver. Throughout her career she never lost to an American, and collected eleven national titles.
She was the first woman to be inducted to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in Stillwater, Oklahoma and the first American woman to be inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in Istanbul, Turkey.
Tricia then seven, announced she was bored with watching. Her father asked if she wanted to wrestle and she replied with a yes.
By the time she reached the "Regional Nationals", she was a force to be reckoned with in the 50-pound weight class. She retired wrestling boys in folkstyle wrestling at age 12, compiling a record of 181-23.
She later turned to freestyle wrestling, this time wrestling women internationally, after receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin, ten years later.
Tricia is married to Townsend Saunders, the 1996 Olympic freestyle wrestling silver medalist.