Articles Tagged: Iowa women’s wrestling

All eyes are on Iowa, legendary Hawkeye wrestling coach Dan Gable said Friday during the closing keynote portion of The Gazette’s sixth annual Iowa Ideas conference.

Former South Winneshiek prep Felicity Taylor is transferring to Iowa to wrestle. She was a national champion for McKendree last season and will respresent the United States at U23 World Championships.

Moment No. 10: Iowa became the first Power Five program to add a women’s wrestling team in 2021 as a result of the settlement to a Title IX lawsuit.

Inflation and supply chain issues have driven up the cost of two premiere University of Iowa construction projects about to begin – including a new wrestling facility featuring state-of-the-art locker rooms and practice spaces for the Hawkeye men’s and women’s wrestling teams.

Iowa fans got their first look at future Hawkeye Nanea Estrella during USA Wrestling’s 2022 World Team Trials Challenge Tournament. She is the No. 1 seed at 59 kilograms in the women’s freestyle bracket.

The road to the 2022 Senior World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, will run through Coralville this weekend. Here are Eastern Iowa wrestlers to watch this weekend.

As Iowa women’s wrestling coach Clarissa Chun builds her first roster, plenty of recruits have expressed interest in the new program.

A new wrestling tournament at Xtream Arena will include a men’s and women’s open division with proceeds split between United Service Organization (USO) and a development fund dedicated to the advancement of female wrestling.

The Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival has announced the return of the annual Tribute to Heroes Dinner and the event’s keynote speaker, University of Iowa Women’s Wrestling Coach Clarissa Chun. The dinner is June 17 and hero nominations are still being accepted until Friday.

The top-ranked pound-for-pound wrestler in the Class of 2002, Kylie Welker, was the first signee for the Iowa women’s wrestling program. Soon after, Bettendorf’s Ella Schmit and Wyoming Seminary Prep’s (Pa.) Reese Larramendy followed, showing the talent is already flocking to the Iowa program.

Kylie Welker is the top pound-for-pound female wrestling recruit in the country. The 2021 Junior World champion from Franksville, Wis., has become the Iowa women’s wrestling program’s first official signee.

The IGHSAU announced before Saturday’s IWCOA girls’ state wrestling championship matches at Xtream Arena in Coralville that it will officially sanction the sport.

More than a month has passed since Clarissa Chun was announced as the first head coach for the Iowa women’s wrestling program. Her vision for her new post is coming into focus.