Tolly Thompson's wife gives birth to a baby girl

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John Fuller (TheMat.com)
09/15/2005


2005 U.S. World Team member Tolly Thompson is a father - again. Thompson's wife, Tracy, gave birth to the couple's third daughter today at 12:59 p.m. Central Time.

Kendall Jo Thompson weighed 9 lbs., 6 ounces and is 20.75 inches. She will have two older sisters, Payton and Victoria.

Thompson will leave Sunday, September 18 to travel to Budapest, Hungary where he will compete in the 2005 World Championships of freestyle wrestling. Thompson's weight class, 120 kg/264.5 lbs., will compete on Wednesday, September 28.

Thompson, a 1995 NCAA champion at the Univ. of Nebraska, has won two U.S. Nationals titles in freestyle, the second coming this year. He placed second at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

In 1998, Thompson won his first U.S. Nationals title, but he suffered an injury and was unable to compete in the U.S. World Team Trials.