is a Japanese volleyball player.

Life

She was born with the name Ya Chen Wang in China. Whilst being educated in America she played for Jefferson College and

Long Beach State California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) is a public research university in Long Beach, California. The 322-acre campus is the second largest of the 23-school California State University system (CSU) and one of the largest universities i ...

. She graduated from Jefferson College in 2009. She became a

naturalized Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-citizen of a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of that country. It may be done automatically by a statute, i.e., without any effort on the part of the in ...

Japanese citizen in 2015 and assumed a Japanese name. She was selected for the

Japan women's national volleyball team The Japan women's national volleyball team (Hinotori Nippon, 火の鳥NIPPON), or ''All-Japan women's volleyball team'', is currently ranked 10th in the world by FIVB. The new head coach is Masayoshi Manabe. One of their greatest successes was ...

in 2017.

References

1988 births Chinese emigrants to Japan Japanese women's volleyball players Living people Naturalized citizens of Japan Jefferson College (Missouri) alumni Long Beach State Beach women's volleyball players Ageo Medics players {{Japan-volleyball-bio-stub Volleyball players from Beijing