Entering his third season as head coach at Cameron University Qi Wang (pronounced CHEE Wong), has over 400 total coaching wins and seven NCAA Tournament appearances as an assistant and head coach at the Division II level.
Wang is in the top-50 nationally in active coaching victories and in winning percentage; he also reached the NCAA Division II National Championship Game in 2002 and 2004, and was National Coach of the Year in 2002. In his first season at Cameron, Wang turned around a program that went win-less in the Lone Star Conference in 2013 to their first postseason semifinal appearance in seven years. Wang oversaw an eight win improvement from 2013 and their first non-losing season since 2011 with a pair of All-Conference selections. Â In his second season, Wang led the Aggies to a program best 13-0 start, and a second appearance in the LSC Tournament Semifinals.
Prior to CU Wang spent four seasons at Angelo State as the programs number-one assistant and helped the Rambelles archive over 100 wins, a Lone Star Conference regular season title, and three NCAA South-Central Regional berths.
Prior to his four years at ASU, Wang led Florida Tech to 21-12 and 20-14 records in his two seasons from the school's previous season record of 2-31. He marched Tech to an 11-0 start in 2007 setting the record for most consecutive wins, and tied the school record for wins (21) overall.
Wang also spent two winning seasons at Northern Michigan (2005-06) after an impressive eight year stay at Truman State (1997-2004) splitting his time as both assistant and head coach. During his tenure at Truman, Wang was 133-17 (.887) overall and led the Bulldogs to three MIAA regular-season crowns, two MIAA tournament championships and three South Central Regional titles. Truman advanced to the NCAA II Elite Eight three times and played in the championship match twice during his stay at TSU. In 2004,
Wang led the Bulldogs to a program best 37-1 record, with the team's only loss coming in the championship game; he was also awarded AVCA South Central Regional Coach of the Year accolades three times in 2001, 2003 and 2004.
Wang has coached eight All-Americans including two first-team members. Sarah Shearman, the 2003 AVCA National Freshman of the Year was one of his recruits and stand-out student-athletes. In four years as the head coach at Truman, 12 of Wang's players earned all-region honors, while also capturing 24 all-conference awards. Twice, he had a player named the MIAA Most Valuable Player, while also coaching two players to the MIAA Freshman of the Year award.
Wang earned his undergraduate degree in sports science with a specialization in volleyball from Beijing Sports University of China in 1983. He continued on, earning a master's degree at Beijing in teaching theory and methods in volleyball in 1987.
Wang also played volleyball collegiately and on China's elite professional level. Wang came the United States and earned his second post-graduate degree at Eastern New Mexico University in 1997, receiving a master's degree in the coaching of sports.
He has published and presented more than 20 scholastic and scientific papers relating to volleyball, sports science and physical education in leading Chinese and international professional journals and at conferences.
Wang had articles published in Volleyball and Science which has been recognized as one of the most valuable training guides.
Wang and his wife Shelly (Xiao-Xin) Wang have a son, George Wang.
