#Article Debut Challenge#Looking back on the growth history of Chinese women's volleyball setter Yao Di, it is very appropriate to describe it as Gen Hongmiaozheng!
Yao Di was born in 1992, 182 tall, all the way from the national youth to the national team, are the key training objects, the national youth are the core of the main setter, and won the 2011 World Youth Championships best setter, this is also the Chinese women's volleyball team in the past ten years, since Wei Qiuyue, the only World Youth Championship best setter!
Yao Di's growth period has been full of flowers all the way, and looking at her personal best award in the competition can explain everything. The best setter in the 2011 World Youth Championships, the best setter in the 2011 Asian Club Cup, the best setter in the Asian Club Cup in 2012, the MVP and best setter in the 2013 U23 World Youth Championships, so far Yao Di has been smooth sailing, and her ups and downs began after entering the national team.
From 2013 to 2021, Yao Di's ten-year national team career has always been a substitute. Even if she won the best setter in the 2019-2020, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 Volleyball Super League, even if she successfully fought fires on the bench many times in the national team, she failed to change her fate, and her situation became worse and worse. So much so that Yao Di tearfully said not long ago, "I have lost the platform of the national team".
Why list Yao Di's personal best awards, because each one is extremely rare, and the vast majority of volleyball players can't get one in their lifetime. Taking Ding Xia and Diao Linyu as an example, Ding Xia has always been a substitute, and Diao Linyu has never been selected for the youth national team at all levels.
2024 is the Olympic year, the Chinese women's volleyball team is also in a deep trough, and needs to compete for the qualification for the Paris Olympics.