This story first appeared in HER Stories - Spring 2024, a biannual special section distributed by The Gazette that features stories of Eastern Iowa women who have experienced powerful paths of ...

Approaching graduation, Chun wanted to keep wrestling, but there were no college scholarship programs for women — at least none that she knew about. She applied to the University of Iowa. It was ...

When Clarissa Chun perched on the local pool’s starting blocks — readying for a race in the first sport to catch her heart, swimming — she was easily a foot shorter than the other girls on the line.

Chun is in her second year at Iowa and looking forward to how her team can set the example for the growth of women’s wrestling. On September 23, 2021, the University of Iowa Athletics announced the ...

The woman’s growling voice booms through the darkened arena with the practiced legato and extended vowels of the best announcers in the business. And nooooowwww, wrestling for your Ioooooowwaaaaaa ...

Iowa women’s wrestling head coach Clarissa Chun was named the USA Wrestling Women’s Coach of the Year, it was announced on May 1, after leading the Hawkeyes to their second national championship title ...