(July 25, 2008)

We are setting off.

We, the US Women’s Olympic Volleyball Team, had our photos taken two days ago.

We are going to set off for California .The establishing ceremony for the American Olympic delegation will be held there.

So nearly starting, Beijing Olympic Games!

Introduction

Lang Ping took up volleyball in her spare-time, at a sports school in the Beijing Workers' Gymnasium in April 1973. She joined Beijing's Chenjinglun Middle School volleyball team a year later and then entered a volleyball training class in Beijing's No. 2 Spare-time Sports School before becoming a member of the Beijing youth volleyball team.

Lang was promoted to the Beijing municipal team, headed by Yuan Weimin, in 1976 and chosen by the national team towards the end of 1978. In the national team she played as a chief spiker and served successively as the team's deputy captain, captain and assistant coach. Lang steered the Chinese team to the first world title at the Third World Cup Volleyball Tournament in 1981, before they swept three more major world titles in the 1982 World Championships, 1984 Olympic Games and 1985 World Cup with four straight wins in five years.

She is now head coach of the US Womens Volleyball Team.