MSU Women's Track Hires Qingyi Zheng As Assistant Coach
9/16/2004 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track and Field
Sept. 16, 2004
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State head women's track and field coach Angela Goodman has announced that Qingyi Zheng (pronounced CHIN-yee Zen) has been added to the Spartan staff as an assistant coach. Zheng, who has more than 30 years of coaching experience in both China and the U.S., will coach MSU's throwers, vertical jumpers and multi-events, and will administer the strength and conditioning program.
"In 2001, I had the pleasure of working with Qingyi Zheng while serving on the U.S. staff for the World University Games in Beijing, China," said Goodman. "He brings a tremendous amount of experience and expertise to our program along with a tireless work ethic. Qingyi's former athletes have been very successful under his training methods, and I'm sure that we'll see those same results here at MSU. I am very excited to have added Qingyi to the women's track and field staff."
Zheng was most recently an instructor in the Department of Physical Education at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, where he also served as an assistant coach on the women's track team from 1997-2002. During Zheng's tenure at UNLV, the Lady Rebels finished second in the Mountain West Conference each of his last three seasons. More than 20 athletes ranked among the school's all-time top five in 14 individual events, 17 athletes placed in the top eight in both indoor and outdoor conference championships, including one All-American, two conference records, eight conference titles, eight school records and five freshman school records.
While at UNLV, Zheng spent August of 2001 as an assistant coach on the U.S. Women's Track and Field team for the World University Games in Beijing, China.
Prior to his stint at UNLV, Zheng was a men's assistant coach at the University of Idaho from 1993-97. While at Idaho, the Vandals won the Big Sky Outdoor Track and Field championship in 1995 and 1996, and the 1997 Big West Outdoor Track and Field championship. Under his tutelage, more than 20 athletes qualified for the Big Sky/Big West Indoor and Outdoor Championships in all nine field events. Among them, 15 athletes placed in the top six at the conference championships, including four All-Americans, 12 conference titles and one conference record, three school records and one U.S. Junior Championship title.
During his time at Idaho, Zheng completed both his M.S. in Physical Education and his Ph. D. in Education with a concentration in Physical Education & Sport Science. He had previously received his B.S. in Physical Education from Hangzhou Education Institute in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China in 1986.
Zheng began his coaching career in 1972 in Hangzhou. He was a physical education teacher and track and field coach at both the collegiate and high school levels in Hangzhou until 1989, when he first arrived in Idaho to begin work on his Master's degree.