Wrestling Gold Medalist Tamyra Mensah buys her mother a food truck with prize money
Tamyra Mensah-Stock made history becoming the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in wrestling for the United States. Now Mensah-Stock has decided to make her mom’s dream come true after she used her prize money to her a food truck hoping to start a business.
“She’s always doing back-breaking work,” Mensah-Stock told People. “I’ve just seen her struggling ever since my dad died and I don’t like seeing it.”
Mensah-Stock was in high school when her father, Prince Mensah, died in a car accident while driving home from a wrestling match. The trauma event almost stopped her from pursuing her athletic career. However, she says if her father had been alive, “he would have been the loudest one here. He would have been so proud.”
Since her father passed away her mom continued to support her in all her endeavors. In return she decided to show her mom appreciation by buying her a food truck. Her mother who has a passion for cooking, she made a promise to buy one for her someday.
Now, the 28-year old is fulfilling the promise by using the $37,500 tax-free prize money courtesy of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. Her mother would no longer have to cook on a portable grill, which she said is not really the best legal method for a food business, and will soon food truck they’ll call “The Lady Bug.”
“It is going to be pleasant. It’s going to be legal. It’s going to be fun,” she said.
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