Hua (Lee) Li brings extensive knowledge and experience to Club Heights Volleyball as a director and coach.  Before Coach Lee immigrated to US about 5 years ago, he was a professional volleyball play and beach volleyball player for the Chinese National Team.

During that time, his team and he has won several national championships.  Also, he has received several individual awards including gold and bronze medals for 1998 and 2002 Asian Games.  In 2004, he retired from team as a player, but stayed as a coach for the Shanghai Volleyball Team.

After he immigrated to US, he coached volleyball at Club West for 3 seasons for the 17-years-old group, and Club Vertical for 1 season for the 18-year-old group.  He was the Varsity coach for Nogales High School for the 2012-2013 season in which he led them to the schools first ever playoff match. Coach Lee is now the Varsity coach at Diamond Bar High School. From his own words, he has learned quite a lot from coaching at both clubs about how volleyball is played in U.S.  However, he thinks a lot of the techniques and strategies in volleyball are similar across countries and allover the world.  So he would like to integrate Chinese and American style together.

 

His goal at Club Heights is to pass along his experiences and knowledge that he has learned as a player and a coach from both cultures, in the hopes that we can all have fun and be successful together.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

• MVP Award and Best Spiker Award in China National Games and China Professional Volleyball League

• Won Gold Medal in Asian Youth. Volleyball Championship representing China National Jr. Team

• Led shanghai team as a captain and won National Championship during seven years in China Shanghai professional Men’s Team

• Won the first Gold Medalist in China history in the Asian Game Men’s Beach Volleyball Championship

• Led the Shanghai women’s Professional Volleyball indoor team as the first assistant coach and achieved from the bronze to Silver Medal

• Led the China National women’s Beach Volleyball Team as the first assistant coach and bought the team to the Silver Medal of the World Beach volleyball championship

• Led Shanghai Women’s Beach Volleyball Team won National Beach Volleyball Championship

COACHING EXPERIENCES:

2012-2013  Coach in the Club Heights for 18 years old team for one senson

2008-2011  Coaching in the Club West  for 17 years old  team for three senson and club Vertical 18 years old team for one senson

2007-2008  Was a head Coach in Shanghai well known Zhu Jia-Ming Volleyball Club; (Zhu Jia-Ming is a China Volleyball Legend who is Vice President of China Volleyball Federation, President of Asian Volleyball Confederation Coaches Commission). Instructed in numerous High School Coaches Courses, Summer Camps, Volleyball Seminars, and recruiting assignments. Trained numerous athletes moving to both China National Junior team and Youth team.

2006-2007 Served as first assistant coach in China national women’s Beach Volleyball team, earned rank 2 in The World Tour and Silver Medal of the World Beach Volleyball Championship.

2004-2006 Coached Shanghai Professional Women’s Team and brought team to win from the 4th to the 2nd position in the Nation In the same period, served as a Head Coach for the Shanghai Beach Volleyball Women’s Team won from 3rd to the championship in the China National Beach Tour

ATHLETIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

2002-2004 Won “MVP Award” three years consecutively in representing Shanghai professional beach volleyball  Team for National Beach Volleyball Tour

1997-2004 Led the Shanghai Men’s Volleyball Team as a captain to win National Championship

1997-1998 Won China National Volleyball League Silver Medal and Best Spiker Award

1996  Won 1996 Asian Youth  Men’s Volleyball Championship representing the China National Youth Men’s Volleyball Team

1993-2004 Player in the China Shanghai Professional Men’s Volleyball Team as OH. and OPP.

EDUCATION:

1998-2004 B.A. degree in Business Administration and Physical Education (Double Major) in Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.

AWARDS:

1999-2003 Received “Honorary Sports Award of Shanghai City” for four years consecutively

2001-2007 Commission Member of China Volleyball Federation