![]() ![]() When she is not designing homes, she's teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she attended grad school. With a “crazy professional career," she is not looking toward the Olympics or turning pro. LaFree started taking classes seven or eight years ago at another gym, where a trainer who noticed how hard she hit suggested she start fighting. “What happens when I run into a girl with a style that I’ve never seen before?”īoth fighters went straight to the finals on April 15, with Quinn losing by decision and LaFree winning by walkover at 139 pounds because her opponent did not make weight. ![]() “I’m having a lot of success with the girls that I fought here in Chicago so far, but they’ve all had kind of similar styles,” Quinn says. She also works as a full-time coach and trainer there, with her labradoodle Sparky in tow, and oversees the gym's website. After a pause for grad school in sports marketing at Northwestern, she started fighting again last year out of Unanimous in the city’s West Loop and Logan Square neighborhoods. ![]()
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