Zhou Xiaolan

Zhou Xiaolan

Personal information
Born	October 9, 1957
Medal record Women's Volleyball Representing  China Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Team FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship 1982 Peru Team FIVB World Cup 1981 Japan Team

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 Chinese Women National Team which won three Gold Medals in three world competitions in the early nineteen eighties.

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 classes each week at an adult day care center called CCACC with about 20-50 students in each class.

In 2014, she started her own girls volleyball club, the East coast Elite, which is located in Howard County Maryland where she is currently coaching. ^[1]

She has 2 daughters, Lucy Hou and Mary Hou, who both attended University of Maryland, College Park.

Awards

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