Olympic wrestlers Patricia Miranda and Toccara Montgomery to ring The Opening Bell at the New York S
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Danielle Martinez (NYSE)
09/09/2004
* 2004 U.S.A. Women's Freestyle Wrestlers to visit NYSE * Olympians Patricia Miranda and Toccara Montgomery to Ring The Opening Bell EVENT: Members of the 2004 U.S.A. Women's Freestyle Wrestling Team will visit the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, September 13th to celebrate the team's silver and bronze medals in the 2004 Olympic Games. In honor of this special occasion, Olympic medalist Patricia Miranda and Olympic teammate Toccara Montgomery will ring The Opening Bell. Patricia Miranda, two-time world championship silver medalist and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford, won a bronze medal in this year's Athens Olympics in the women's freestyle 48kg (105.5 pounds) division. Toccara Montgomery is a two-time world championship medalist and owns three U.S. national championship titles. She placed seventh at the 2004 Olympic Games at 72 kg (158.5 lbs.) FILA, the international wrestling federation has hosted women's world freestyle wrestling championships since 1987 and women's freestyle wrestling was staged for the first time at the Olympics last month in Athens. USA Wrestling is responsible developing the national teams and for training the Olympic teams. Accompanying the Olympians are Olympic coaches Tricia Saunders, Townsend Saunders and Terry Steiner.