Clarissa Chun during Saturday’s pre-induction press conference. Sally Marquez, NFHS President from New Mexico, presented a plaque to Clarissa Chun during the National High School Hall of Fame ...

Honolulu’s Clarissa Chun was one of three individuals to receive the National Wrestling Coaches Association’s Trailblazer Award, honoring those who have made contributions to women’s college wrestling ...

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 ...

The more women’s college wrestling teams the better. That’s the attitude of Iowa head coach Clarissa Chun when asked about Iowa’s rival, Iowa State, starting a women’s wrestling program. Like Iowa did ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chun is also a big name that resonates with men and women wrestlers, especially as a National Wrestling Hall of Fame 2022 inductee. Iowa announced Thursday that Chun has been named the first head ...

Clarissa Chun knocked off the 2004 gold medalist Irini Merleni of Ukraine to give the USA its first Olympic medal in wrestling in the 2012 Games. The win also avenged a 2008 bronze medal match loss to ...

Hawaii hadn’t yet sanctioned girls wrestling, but rumors were that it was on the cusp and, indeed, the association would make that move by Chun’s junior year. The physicality of wrestling came easily ...

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IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - University of Iowa head coach Clarissa Chun has been named the 2024 USA Wrestling Women’s Coach of the Year. Chun is being honored alongside Sara McMann. She is receiving the ...