Iowa Women's Wrestling
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Sterling Dias. She isn't currently an Iowa commit, but assuming there's interest by the picture. Flo has her at #6 @106 lbs.
Schmit wrestling 59 kilo(130) would lead to her at least going 123.. maybe hit a little growth spurt
Solid addition to the program. Mayab is a fantastic coach.
First off I am the quintessential Boomer and if I successfully post this link…. I’ll be pretty impressed with myself…. good article and I love that Chun is calling out other P5 schools to add women’s wrestling
www.thegazette.com
Chun faces good problem: ‘Everyone wants to come to Iowa’
As Iowa women’s wrestling coach Clarissa Chun builds her first roster, plenty of recruits have expressed interest in the new program.
www.thegazette.com
I’ve had fun thinking about this since Iowa announced womens wrestling, “what would be good walk out songs for women?” Some songs by Joan Jett jumped out at me cause I like her songs, she knew how to bring it, and shes known as the Queen of Rock n Roll.
An article with a "changing attitudes toward women's athletics" theme: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/05/18/uswnt-soccer-pay/
Looks like the Hawks won't have far to travel for the National Championships their first 2 years.
Much more interested to see what she accomplishes on the mat.
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Duh, but nice to know she wants to help grow the sport as well.
@PrairieHawk24 has a good weight breakdown below.
I could see some of the girls at lower weights growing a bit. For example Ella Schmit is no longer 116. She just wrestled 59kgs. Good chance she will be a 130/136 in college.
Biggest ?? would be 155. Lots of talent at that weight in HS right now(Elor, Rodriguez, Robinson).
Still plenty of time for Coach Chun to pick up more hammers.
Big time get. This Iowa woman’s team is starting to looked pretty stacked!
Starting to feel like a strong contender team.
Looking forward to the 2022-23 season!
Looking forward to the 2022-23 season!
No kidding. Not sure if people quite realize just how much success the current commits have already achieved.
This group has made multiple age level World teams, won numerous World medals, Final X/OTT finalists, National Finalists/Champ, MMA prodigy, etc, etc....
I'm sure that there will be more commits/transfers to come that will add to this list.
The really scary thought is what type of jump they could make when all of this talent will be training together under the direction of Coach Chun(and Mayabb).
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I’m afraid the biggest question for them will be finding competitive opponents
Until women's D1 college wrestling more fully expands, I would hope the HWC budget allows for some international travel and/or enticements to bring in international competitors.
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PrairieHawk24 said:
101- E.Gonzalez, B.Gonzalez
109- N. Valencia, S.Dias
116- F. Taylor, A .Bayless
123- E.Schmit,
130- N.Estrella
136-
143- R.Larramendy, B.Mir
155-
170- K.Welker
191- S.Calkins
PrairieHawk24 said:
101- E.Gonzalez, B.Gonzalez
109- N. Valencia, S.Dias
116- F. Taylor, A .Bayless
123- E.Schmit,
130- N.Estrella
136-
143- R.Larramendy, B.Mir
155-
170- K.Welker
191- S.Calkins
Until we see them in action, let's not declare victory yet. This is why they wrestle them. Great recruits promise great wrestlers, but the proof is in the action. Like you, I have every faith that this crew will dominate the mats.
I do say that there has never been a better time to buy a season ticket for Hawkeye Women's wrestling. And if you have to miss a meet, please donate your Tix to Wrestling for Life. I'm certain that GG has many young-uns who would love to go. We need to inspire any young woman who wants to try wrestling. It's good for them and it's good for all of us.
No one is doing that. We’re talking about how they look on paper.
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I actually think we need more 1, and 2 year wrestlers. Going to make it a challenge to keep building teams if we take up all the spots for 4 years and then have to rebuild from all first years again.
HWC could become a powerhouse for women’s wrestling. The pieces are in place to trend this way.
