2023 is an unforgettable and extraordinary year for Zhang Luhan, the successor of the Shanghai Gezhi Middle School girls' volleyball team. This summer, she was admitted to Tsinghua University, China's highest university, with excellent grades. This is the best feedback to Zhang Luhan's sweat and hard work in the volleyball field for more than ten years, and it is another successful practice of Huangpu District's deep cultivation of the integration of sports and education. Now, let's walk into Zhang Luhan's journey of youth and dreams together!
From "Volleyball White" to "Volleyball Princess"
Zhang Luhan's first encounter with volleyball was also traced back to the first grade of primary school, "because my father was a basketball player before, so the family wanted me to learn a sports skill to enhance my physical fitness", influenced by the family environment, Zhang Luhan in childhood has a strong interest in sports since she was a child, and the sports events broadcast on TV at home and the tall figure who watched her father gallop on the field quietly planted a seed in her heart.
At first, when she first trained with the volleyball team, Zhang Luhan did not seem to find the joy of volleyball, but instead was uncomfortable with the higher intensity physical requirements and the fatigue of boring basic exercises. As the youngest member of the team, she was not discouraged, but took the initiative to try to adjust herself, "sometimes I don't want to practice will look at the sisters around me, thinking that they have practiced longer and harder than me but are serious persistence, I will also abandon distractions and be more focused", in order to make up for the strength and technical gap brought by her young age, Zhang Luhan made more efforts than other team members, and repeated thousands of times a day to flip the ball, throw the ball also laid a solid foundation for her later growth.
In addition, with the gradual deepening of the training content, Zhang Luhan also gradually began to carry out independent time planning, in order not to affect the completion of daily learning tasks, while better ensuring the rest and recovery after training, she began to get used to using the free time in school to complete daily homework and consolidate new knowledge, "Time is like water in a sponge, the time saved can allow me to get full rest, because the body is the capital of the revolution!" The good habit of time management has also become an indispensable factor for her to successfully enter her dream university in the future.
"Long winds and breaking waves will sometimes"
From primary school to middle school, Zhang Luhan has always insisted on being accompanied by volleyball, and the increasingly heavy academic burden has not hindered her from moving forward, on the contrary, the training model of integrating sports and education has brought her a bigger stage. "I remember my middle school days, especially when I was in high school at Shanghai Gezhi Middle School, and the way the school was nurtured was very unforgettable", although the learning content is increasing, the school does not occupy the daily study time of the players, but insists on pursuing better competition results while ensuring the quality of learning. "The professional venues and full-time coaches equipped by the school have benefited me a lot, not only saving me a lot of time on the training journey, but also eliminating the sense of separation between us and our classes and classmates, allowing me to have more energy to balance training and learning." It is also in this environment that Zhang Luhan focuses more on the polishing of personal skills and strives to achieve a better bloom on the field.
The hard work paid off, and by chance, Zhang Luhan, who was in her second year of junior high school, got the opportunity to enter the Shanghai U15 women's volleyball training team and prepare for the "National Second Youth Meeting" in 2019 with outstanding players of the same age. This is her first time on the national stage, excitement and nervousness are overflowing, "I remember that it was the preliminary round against the Heilongjiang women's volleyball team, when the score was 23 draws, my successive serving errors and service errors made the team lose that game and fall into a passive situation", although in the end with the unremitting efforts of her teammates still defeated her opponent, but that mistake always made her difficult to let go.
In the subsequent games, Zhang Luhan will consciously or unintentionally remember the picture of mistakes every time when handling key balls, and the heart demon has been accompanying her to the 2022 Shanghai Games women's volleyball final, "It was the last city games in my middle school, and it was also the key moment of the final, I was replaced by the coach to serve, standing on the court, I repeatedly recalled the coach's instructions, concentrated on the volleyball in my hand, the moment I heard the whistle, I knew that I had succeeded, won the game and overcame my inner demons." "That is the first champion of the City Games that belongs to Zhang Luhan.
"The light boat has crossed the 10,000 mountains"
Compared with the ups and downs and thrills on the field, the recruitment of high-level athletes outside the arena is more like a battlefield without gunsmoke: in the face of athletes from all over the country who have excellent academic and training skills, how to maximize their advantages and win the "offer" of the ideal college, there is a lot of knowledge in it. When asked how to correct his mentality and finally knock on the door of Tsinghua, Zhang Luhan's answer was quite surprising: "I only filled in the Fudan University and Tsinghua University that I yearned for, and I regarded the recruitment of high-level sports teams as the icing on the cake." ”
It turned out that Zhang Luhan, who has long insisted on studying and training at the same time, has always maintained a good state of study, and her academic performance is also very satisfactory, "Even if I failed to be admitted in advance, I was confident that I would be admitted to the university, so I did not consider filling in the guarantee college at that time", such confidence comes from her good study habits and years of hard work, but also from the correct guidance and hard work of home-school cooperation under the background of sports and education integration.
Looking back, the light boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains. Now, Zhang Luhan, who has just entered the campus of Tsinghua University, has opened a new chapter in her life, but her love for volleyball will not stop there, "Volleyball has become an indispensable part of my life, and it has taught me a lot of truths, accompanied my growth and transformation, and made me meet many like-minded friends through volleyball, so that I am no longer lonely on the road ahead." In the future, Zhang Luhan also hopes to continue to adhere to volleyball training and add glory to the school, "Tsinghua is a traditional strong school of volleyball, in the face of academic training elites from all over the country, only redouble efforts can catch up with the pace of everyone's progress. ”
Looking ahead, the long road is also brilliant. May this Huangpu athlete continue to uphold a lofty attitude, blossom on the new stage, and forge ahead without fear of wind and rain!