Before she could walk, Po Chun Liu’s father would take her to the local baseball stadium in Taiwan to teach her about the sport. He told her: “You are capable of anything, Po Chun.” However, when she walked into tryouts for her junior high school baseball team, she received a different message. The coaches told her there was a “no skirts allowed” policy and turned her away.

Refusing to give up her ambition to play the game, a young Po Chun volunteered with Little League Baseball. Noticing the poor quality of the umpiring, she began taking the first steps toward becoming a game official. Since 2006, she has umpired for World Baseball and Softball Confederation tournaments across the globe..

Po Chun has published six books about her experiences and was named to Forbes’ Most Powerful Women International Sport list for 2018. Two years later, Po Chun and her colleague, Yu-Hsien Tseng (“Blue”), founded the “Taiwan Women’s Sports Association” and the “Taiwan Sport Forward Association.” Their work supports and empowers disadvantaged youth and female athletes by enhancing their physical and mental health while providing financial support, and career and tutoring assistance. Because of their humanitarian efforts, Blue and Po Chun received Taiwan’s first-ever “Gender Equality in Sport Award” in 2020.