Lily Zhang

Lily Zhang @lilyyz is a Chinese American Table Tennis player and she lost today in the round of 16. She is a 4 time Olympian and this is her best performance to date. Her father immigrated from China to teach math at Stanford, her mother was a highly ranked player in China and wanted to introduce Lily to Table Tennis as a way to help her preserve her heritage and also add an extracurricular activity to help her get into colleges.

They didn’t have a big home so they used the Ping Pong table as the dinning room table. Table Tennis doesn’t pay well, Lily won an international tournament earlier this year and the prize money was only $650. But Lily loves Ping Pong and wants to keep playing, she wanted to win a medal in Paris to help promote the sport. Even though she didn’t end up on the medal stand she had the crowd chanting her name today, “Lily” clap, clap, clap “Lily” clap, clap, clap. Lily says whenever she shows people a video of Ping Pong they are blown away by how dynamic it is! My children are defiantly now a fan of yours and Table Tennis.

Keep playing Lily, Keep chasing your dreams and what matters most is the journey, the people you meet and the people you lift up on the way! Go. Lily, Go #teamusa. @make.us.visible

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