(XINHUA)

Former volleyball star Jenny Lang Ping was appointed to coach the Chinese women's team on April 25.

Lang was a key member of China's most successful volleyball squad. After retiring in the late 1980s, she moved to the United States, studied and worked as an assistant volleyball coach at the University of New Mexico.

She took charge of the Chinese women's team in 1995 and guided them to a silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and to second place at the 1998 World Championships in Japan. She resigned from the Chinese team in 1998 for health reasons and then spent six years coaching in Italy. She coached the U.S. national team and led them to silver in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

After she returned to China in 2009, Lang was invited to coach the Evergrande club and she is credited with molding an unknown team to a dominant force in the Chinese league.