Iowa Signs National Champion Felicity Taylor

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Felicity Taylor, a four-time nationwide finalist and 2021 nationwide champion, will switch to the College of Iowa girls’s wrestling program, it was introduced Tuesday by head coach Clarissa Chun.

“As soon as I knew that we had a possibility to convey Felicity again residence I knew we needed to attempt,” mentioned Chun. “She is a good chief within the sport of girls’s wrestling and in Iowa. I believe it creates loads of hope and alternatives for aspiring athletes from Iowa.”

“For me it was invaluable to get her coming from a program that has gained nationwide crew titles. She brings loads of management to the crew so far as the tradition and getting the crew to return collectively, constructing one another up, and pushing one another to maneuver this system ahead. We’re excited she is coming again to Iowa.”

Taylor, a local of Spillville, Iowa, spent the previous 4 years at McKendree College in Illinois, the place she helped the Bearcats win three nationwide crew titles.  She was the NCWWC Nationwide Champion in 2021, whereas ending because the 116-pound nationwide runner-up in 2019, 2020 and 2022.

Taylor has additionally excelled on the nationwide scene, profitable each the U.S. Open and U23 Nationwide Tournaments and qualifying for Ultimate X.  It’s the last leg of USA Wrestling’s Senior World Staff Trials course of.

Taylor has earned a spot on the U23 World Staff, the place she’s going to symbolize america on the World Championships in Pontevedra, Spain, in October.  She has additionally represented USA on the UWW Junior Pan American Championships in Brazil in 2019 and Senior U23 Nationwide Championships in Hungary in 2020.

Earlier than becoming a member of the Bearcats, Taylor gained 109 matches at South Winneshiek Excessive Faculty, changing into the primary Iowa lady to succeed in the 100-win milestone.  She was a four-time girls’s freestyle All-American and he or she turned the fourth Iowa lady ever to win a Junior Nationwide title.

Taylor will compete unattached in 2022-23. Iowa introduced in September 2021 it could turn out to be the primary Division I Energy 5 faculty so as to add girls’s wrestling. The Hawkeyes start competing in 2023-24.

2022 Signing Class
Ava Bayless (Greenville, Penn.)
Sam Calkins (Brentwood, Calif.)
Sterling Dias (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Nanea Estrella (Makawao, Hawaii)
Brianna Gonzalez (San Lorenza, Calif.)
Emilie Gonzalez (San Lorenza, Calif.)
Reese Larramendy (Reno, Nev.)
Bella Mir (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Ella Schmidt (Bettendorf, Iowa)
Felicity Taylor (Spillville, Iowa)
Nyla Valencia (Morgan Hill, Calif.)
Kylie Welker (Franksville, Wis.)