Katy's Tamyra Mensah-Stock: A gold medal and outlook to match David Barron, Correspondent Tamyra Mensah-Stock with her gold medal and hair still in its ‘puffballs.’Aaron Favila, STF / Associated Press TOKYO — On her first night as an Olympic gold medalist, Tamyra Mensah-Stock celebrated by having a friend braid her hair. Hair is an issue of considerable importance to Mensah-Stock, 28, of Katy, given that she has spent the last two weeks keeping what she proudly describes as her “hellishly thick, luscious, curly hair” gathered into what she calls “puffballs” to keep it from being used as a weapon against her in the hand-to-hand combat that is women’s wrestling.