The success of Lang Ping in coaching the US team is quite unique, says an article in China Youth Daily. The following is an excerpt:

Lang Ping, former Chinese volleyball star and now the head coach of the US national women's volleyball team, is an outstanding volleyball coach and the wonder she created should go into the history of volleyball.

Lang headed the US team into the Olympic final and the team was said to be not professional three years ago when she started coaching it. What Lang did is like what Guus Hiddink, a Dutch, did to lead South Korea to a 4th place finish in the 2002 FIFA World Cup and what Kim Changbo, a South Korean, did to bring China's women's hockey team to the Beijing Olympic final.