These excellent qualities, such as hard work, teamwork and courage to fight, have been used as references or performance benchmarks by women volleyball players and even national athletes.
Sun Yue, a proud disciple of Lang Ping, is also a very representative figure of China women's volleyball team in 1990s. She has a good appearance and a cheerful personality. Her style on the court is not only brave but also very strong. She is nicknamed "Little Tiger".
1973, Sun Yue was born in a volleyball family in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. Sun Yue's father Sun Jinhua is the head coach of Jiangsu Women's Volleyball Team, and her mother Huang Qizhen is the main attacker of Jiangsu Volleyball Team. She also has a brother named Sun Xin.
When I was a child, Sun Yue was lively and cheerful. She loves nature and likes fantasy. Under the extreme care of parents, Sun Yue's childhood was happy and carefree.
Although Sun Yue's father is very busy at ordinary times, he often has to wait until the weekend to have dinner with his family and play with Sun Yue. But in Sun Yue's memory, whether it's the laughter of the family at the dinner table or the songs he sang on his shoulders, they are all precious memories that she has cherished so far.
When Sun Yue was 3 years old, she once went to her grandmother's house, probably because she suddenly moved to a strange place, and she kept crying. Sun Yue's mother had no choice but to take Sun Yue outside and coax her into a nearby volleyball hall.
Strangely, Sun Yue stopped crying after he entered the arena. She looked at the people running and jumping and the volleyball flying in the air, and her eyes were full of curiosity.
Later, Sun Yue's mother often took Sun Yue to Jiangsu Women's Volleyball Training College to play ball. She sat on the ball car, running and laughing with the little players. That was Sun Yue's earliest childhood memory of volleyball.
However, Sun Yue's happy childhood came to an abrupt end when his father was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer.
From 65438 to 0979, as Sun Yue's grandmother came home from the hospital with tears on her face and hugged Sun Yue, Sun Yue, who was only 6 years old, lost her father forever.
Facing the smell of losing his father at home, Sun Yue also became no longer fond of playing, and no longer fantasized about the sky or night. In order to be relied on by her mother and grandmother, her personality has gradually become strong, independent and calm.
In order to reduce the burden on her family, Sun Yue transferred to a primary school near her home shortly after her father died.
Although Sun Yue was tough and got excellent grades when he was young, his health was not so good. Besides anemia, she also suffers from severe sinusitis. So when Sun Yue was 8 years old, her mother sent her to Nanjing Amateur Sports School to practice volleyball. One is to strengthen Sun Yue's physique, and the other is for Sun Yue's father's last wish.
This is Sun Yue's first official contact with volleyball. After entering the sports school, she actively participated in training every day. She likes running and sweating on the volleyball court. She quickly showed her leading role in the volleyball team, and her physical fitness was getting better and better.
Soon after, in a volleyball competition in which Nanjing Langya Road Primary School came to the sports school to select players, Sun Yue was lucky to be appreciated by the selection staff by virtue of his positive performance on the court, and then transferred to Langya Road Primary School smoothly.
Nanjing Langya Road Primary School is not only a key primary school, but also a primary school favored by coaches of provincial sports schools.
But I don't know whether it is influenced by family changes when I was a child or the psychological pressure of being afraid of disappointing my parents. After transferring to Langya Road Primary School, Sun Yue spent most of her time studying. She borrowed books and notes from her former classmates to borrow exercises, and found a corner in the school to study by herself for fear of falling behind in any subject.
In this way, Sun Yue was inevitably isolated by her classmates at school, who often sarcastically said that her height1.64m was not suitable for playing volleyball at all.
"Mom, can I not go to school in Xiao Lang?" Sun Yue, whose self-esteem has been frustrated repeatedly, once said to her mother with tears.
For Sun Yue's mother, it was unexpected for her daughter to refuse volleyball, but she also understood that forcing Sun Yue to stay in Xiao Lang at this time might be counterproductive, so she thought about it and agreed to her daughter's request to return to her original school.
After returning to the familiar environment, Sun Yue gradually became positive and sunny, and resumed her previous interest in volleyball. Once again, she practiced volleyball with a smile while reading a book, and in a blink of an eye, she was in the second grade of junior high school.
1987, Sun Yue participated in a junior volleyball competition named "Revitalizing China Cup" with the school team. In the competition, she was unexpectedly appreciated by Huang Lanfang, the coach of Jiangsu young women's volleyball team, and was later invited to join the Jiangsu young women's queue.
65438-0987, Sun Yue came to Zhangzhou and joined the provincial team for winter training. However, due to an unexpected boil on his right knee, he had to do some small amount of training alone.
Even if it is only a small amount of training, Sun Yue, who has devoted himself seriously, is not careless at all. She pondered over the details of her posture and practice. When she meets an action that she can't do, she sits next to the training ground and watches her teammates practice, and then summarizes the methods.
In order not to let Sun Yue fall behind in training, coach Huang Lanfang began to give her one-on-one training privately. Huang Lanfang will repeatedly train Sun Yue on every solid basis, from passing, padding and pedaling to how to use the strength of waist and abdomen.
Cao Ping, the former main force of China men's volleyball team, is also very optimistic about the future development of Sun Yue. In his spare time, he will also teach her some skills of serving and spiking.
In this way, under the strict requirements of teachers and Sun Yue's own efforts, Sun Yue successfully entered the first team of Jiangsu Province from 65438 to 0989 and served as the main substitute of women's volleyball team.
Although only the main substitute, Sun Yue cherishes this opportunity. She began to work harder in training, with no less than 8 hours of basic training every day, repeated study and practice of countless 100-meter runs, spiking and serving.
Sun Yue knows that only by persisting in the belief of hard training can he get a technical upgrade.
The National First Class League of Women's Volleyball Team is the first match after Sun Yue became the main force of women's volleyball team. In order to win glory for Jiangsu volleyball team and live up to the coach's expectations, she secretly made up her mind to break the poor performance of Jiangsu women's volleyball team in the past and win the championship.
However, a strong sense of victory or defeat may not bring good results.
I don't know if it's because of too much pressure or lack of experience in regular competitions. Sun Yue didn't play his own strength and made frequent mistakes, which made the ranking of Jiangsu women's volleyball team fall from Group B to Group C. ..
After that, Sun Yue made a long time of self-adjustment. She gradually realized the lack of her skills and the importance of exercising her mind. Slowly, she walked out of the mire that trapped herself, regrouped and began to work harder to return to training.
Spring goes, winter comes and autumn goes, and the days pass little by little in this day-to-day high-intensity training. Looking at her daughter who works hard every day, Sun Yue's mother is also very distressed, but she still encourages Sun Yue with tears: "The road you want to take is not an easy one, but it is the one that anyone who wants to succeed must take."
Sun Yue's style on volleyball court is not only brave but also strong, so coach Huang and his players nicknamed her "Little Tiger".
1990, 17-year-old Sun Yue finally officially shouldered the banner of the main force of the volleyball team and represented Jiangsu women's volleyball team in the Tangshan National Games the following year. In Group A and Group C, Sun Yue left a deep impression on Liu Huacong, former deputy director of the Volleyball Department of the State Sports Commission, by virtue of his perfect performance on the court.
Liu Huacong is very optimistic about Sun Yue's positive performance on the court. After the game, he introduced Sun Yue to China women's volleyball coach Jin Hu. Soon after, Sun Yue was transferred to the national team.
After entering the national team, Sun Yue felt unprecedented pressure.
Compared with professional players, Sun Yue is inevitably inferior in both experience and details. She began to feel anxious and often couldn't sleep well at night.
But she didn't want to give up. She gritted her teeth and survived hard training again and again, repeating one skill and action every day. At that time, Sun Yue was always the last person to leave the training ground.
Three months later, Sun Yue became the main force of China Women's Volleyball Team 1992 warm-up match in Europe and America with her own efforts.
This is the first time that she has participated in such an important competition, and it is also the first time that she has decided where her future lies. Although the final result of the competition was not very satisfactory to her, she also learned a truth from it: the real meaning of the competition is not to win or lose, but to find the ladder of promotion from repeated self-denial.
1993 Sun Yue won the title of "Best Pass" in the 7th Asian Women's Volleyball Championship with her excellent cooperation with her teammates. At the age of 20, she became a veteran of the team. However, Sun Yue is not happy about this.
At that time, the situation of women's volleyball team in China went from bad to worse, and there were endless doubts from the outside world, which made the players become passive, as if they had been overshadowed, and some players even had the idea of retiring.
Although for such a situation, Sun Yue also felt powerless, but thinking of those day and night training, thinking of her mother's expectations of herself, she persisted. She is waiting for her chance, so is the China women's volleyball team.
1995, Lang Ping returned to coach the women's volleyball team, which was 18 months before the Atlanta Olympic Games.
Sun Yue, who was full of hope again, began a particularly strict training. Under the guidance of Lang Ping, Sun Yue and his team members practiced with Dai Yue every day, and kept trotting for fear of wasting a little training time, whether changing training programs or picking up the ball.
In this way, with the efforts of Sun Yue, Lang Ping and the whole women's volleyball team, China women's volleyball team won the runner-up in Atlanta Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup, Asian Championships and Asian Games in the following years, and Sun Yue herself won many honorary titles such as individual MVP.
Sun Yue is very satisfied with her contribution to the China women's volleyball team. She is very grateful to her coach and teammates for their trust, but she has always regretted not helping China women's volleyball team win a gold medal in the Olympic Games.
In 2000, after the Sydney Olympic Games, Sun Yue announced his retirement and then went to play in Italian professional leagues.
Sun Yue once said that if colors are to represent the three Olympic Games she has participated in, they must be gray, red and blue respectively.
She said frankly:
"1992 is gray, and I am very excited to participate in the competition for the first time, but my ability is insufficient;
Atlanta Olympic Games was a hit. Although we didn't win the championship in the end, as the main force, I have tried my best to play my best and have a clear conscience.
The last Sydney Olympic Games was blue. This is a game full of regret and nostalgia. I understand that China's women's volleyball team is not weak, but it met a stronger team and won the Cuban team. "
However, she said that she benefited from her previous physical education major and took a part-time job in the university. I think her article should still be recognized by readers, and she also hopes to know and help more people from the platform of Yangzi Evening News.
In the following two years, Sun Yue wrote an autobiography entitled "Love Can't Stop" to show his volleyball experience to the public, and at the same time served as an assistant coach of Jiangsu women's volleyball team.
In 2008, Sun Yue was the torchbearer of the Nanjing Olympic Torch Station.
After retiring, Sun Yue was not only very successful in her career, but also very happy in her love life.
Sun Yue's husband, He Guowen, is a Hong Kong civil servant and a former basketball player. He has represented the Hong Kong team in many sports meetings and competitions in China.
The two met at a friend's party. When He Guowen first met Sun Yue, he fell in love with her. But He Guowen couldn't speak Mandarin well at that time, so Sun Yue didn't notice anything at that time. In the end, they just exchanged phone calls out of courtesy.
In pursuit of Sun Yue, He Guowen immediately enrolled in a Putonghua training class after returning to Hong Kong, and earnestly studied oral expressions and simplified characters every day. When I called Sun Yue again, he was already able to speak fluent Mandarin.
Later, Sun Yue felt his gentleness and carefulness in several times with He Guowen, and began to have a good impression on him, and the contact between them gradually increased.
Shortly after Sun Yue retired, He Guowen called Sun Yue, hoping that Sun Yue could be his girlfriend. Although Sun Yue hesitated about long-distance love, he finally fell in love with He Guowen and promised him.
He Guowen is very interested in this relationship. Whether it's Valentine's Day or Spring Festival, He Guowen will fly from Hongkong to Sun Yue to spend the holidays with her. He will send Sun Yue's favorite tulips, and he is willing to listen patiently to Sun Yue's difficulties at work.
In this way, under the careful maintenance of the two, this seemingly impossible long-distance love lasted for 8 years.
Later, He Guowen and Sun Yue ended their long-distance love run, joined hands in the marriage hall, and got pregnant with two daughters after marriage.
After their marriage, Sun Yue went to Hong Kong with He Guowen and worked as a volleyball coach in a school in Hong Kong. After the birth of her daughter, Sun Yue became a full-time wife, running the daily life at home and accompanying her children to grow up.
It has been 14 years since she married in Hong Kong, and Sun Yue has taken root in Hong Kong and lived a happy life.
When asked if her daughter will also engage in volleyball in the future, Sun Yue replied seriously: "It depends on the child's own interests and talents."
Sun Yue said that professional athletes are hard work, but if her daughter is interested, she won't stop them. She will give her daughters professional advice and let them make their own choices.
"Hey, it's beautiful again." Lang Ping said kindly after seeing the arrival of Sun Yue.
Later, Sun Yue was lucky enough to be invited by TVB several times. She also told the public about her life and her love for volleyball.
Now Sun Yue is 48 years old and her daughters are growing up. She often shares her daughter's growth on social platforms.
In the interview with Sun Yue published by Hong Kong Commercial Daily on social platform in August, 200212000, we can see that Sun Yue is still the extroverted personality, and still loves life and volleyball.
In an exclusive interview, Sun Yue said that she has been used to life here for many years, and now she enjoys this dull and fulfilling happiness. If possible in the future, she also hopes that her daughter can continue to write a legend of a volleyball family.
She emphasized that sports is a bridge. If you quit the women's volleyball team and marry in Hongkong, you will cherish what you have now. Although there are many disappointments, you will often go back to the mainland to cheer for the China women's volleyball team.
People should not only have dreams, but also have the courage to stumble forward bravely and grow up crazily.
Although it is always a pity to watch Sun Yue's volleyball career, the real meaning of the game is not all about winning or losing. Re-examine yourself after each self-denial and improve your ability, so that you can calmly face every problem in the world. This is the most important thing.
Looking back, what Sun Yue hides in her smile on the volleyball court is not only her confidence, but also the future of China women's volleyball team.
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