Zhou Xiaolan
Zhou Xiaolan (simplified Chinese: 周晓兰, born October 9, 1957) is a former Chinese volleyball player who was a starting middle blocker for the China Women's National Volleyball Team, which won three gold medals in three world compe*ions in the early nineteen eighties.
Contents
- 1 Career
- 2 Awards
- 2.1 National team
- 3 References
- 4 External links
Career
In 1984, she was a core member of the Chinese volleyball team which won the Gold Medal at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics over Team USA.
Zhou was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. In 1973, she entered an amateur sports school to play volleyball, and was enrolled in Shanxi provincial team in the same year. In 1977, Zhou was admitted to the Chinese Junior National Team, and later, to the Chinese National Team.
After retiring in 1984, Zhou studied at Shanghai Sports College and later served in China National Sports Commission and was the vice chief of "balls" section. In 1995, she resigned from the position and went to the United States with her husband. She first served as a volleyball coach at George Washington University. Later she gave up sports career and became an engineer in a medical device company in Maryland. However, she still teaches volleyball and holds cl*es each week at a center, CCACC, with about 20-50 students in each cl*.
In 2014, she started her own girls volleyball club, the East Coast Elite, which is located in Howard County, Maryland, where she is currently coaches.
She has 2 daughters, Lucy and Mary, who both attended University of Maryland, College Park.
Awards
National team
- 1981 World Cup - Gold Medal
- 1982 World Championship - Gold Medal
- 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games - Gold Medal
References
External links
- profile