The Evergreen State College Women's Wrestling

Fan Zhang is in his third season as the head coach of the women's wrestling team at Evergreen. I oversees all aspects of the women's wrestling program. Fan says:  I was born in Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Republic of China. I started wrestling at 8 years old. At 18 years old I won the Senior National Championship, becoming the youngest senior champion in China. Since that time, I have received 7 national championships. In addition, I finished top three in the East Asian Games and represented China at the World Wrestling Championships and Asian Wrestling Championships. 1996,2000, 2004, was the Chinese Olympic Team Member. I was unbeaten at 125 lbs. weight class from 1995 to 2001 in China. During that period, I was also awarded the Beijing Top Ten Athletes of All Sports. As an assistant coach in 2004, I coached wrestler Xu Wang who went on to become an Olympic Champion. In 2006 I was named head coach of the Beijing Women's National Wrestling Team. I developed two Women's National Champions, and five Men's National Champions. In 2008 I resigned as coach in P.R. of China and moved to the United States. Since that time, I was an assistant coach at Wartburg College in Iowa. In my time there, Wartburg College has won 4 NCAA Division III Championships (2008-2009, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, and 2017-2018).  In 2018, I was Grays Harbor College Women’s wrestling Head coach and got the NCWA national champion for the team and coached 3 wrestlers be national champion. In 2019 started women’s wrestling program at Simpson University (CA), due the pandemic I resigned there. In 2022 I started women’s wrestling program at Evergreen state college. For the referee career, in 2010, I received Golden Whistle Award at Northern Plains Regional Championships and in 2018 be the Santos Cageao Award outstanding freestyle official for US Cadet and Junior National Championship at Fargo ND. I am also a United World Wrestling’s certified wrestling official. I have a master’s degree and graduated from the University of Northern Iowa.  

John Lane returns for his third season as an assistant coach with the Evergreen women's wrestling team in 2025-26.