- 2023 — Beijing Cyclones Offensive Rookie of the Year
- 2024 — National Flag Football champion · CNFL runner-up
- 2025 — CNFL national champion
Jones fracture.Missed every game of my first season. Not one practice.
Two months in, I had played my way into the rotation. Then I broke the fifth metatarsal in my left foot — in a non-contact drill. The doctor said six months. I gave it two, and the one-month scan showed the gap had gotten wider. Somewhere in there I stopped listening to anyone and ate my way from 209 to 231 pounds. The foot healed at ten months. I started the 2023 opener at wide receiver.
Five practices in two weeks.Then I started the national final.
I was in Washington, three months out of the country and three months away from the game, when the team made the final. I bought a ticket, flew back mid-semester, and got five practices in two weeks to relearn a playbook I had been away from. I started at wide receiver and played the full game: five catches, seventy yards. We won the 2025 CNFL national championship — my second national title in two years, and the first one I had to buy a plane ticket for.
- 2025 — CSBA D.C. champion · GWU captain · All-Star
- 2026 — DMV Chinese Basketball League champion
- 2023 — Capital University 3x3 runner-up · USTB captain
- 2021 — CUBA 7th
- 2023 & 2024 — CUBAL Beijing 7th
- 2024 — CUBAL regional round of 16 · two years as captain
Basketball was never going to be the job.I knew that from the first day. I kept going anyway.
I was never going to turn professional. I knew that the first day I picked up a ball. What the game was good for was getting me to the next place — it got me recruited out of middle school, it got me into a school I could not have tested into, and at USTB it made me captain of a team I had to hold together myself. Two years wearing the C, a CUBAL regional round of 16, a 3x3 runner-up. Then I put it down and moved to Washington, D.C.
- 2018 — CHBL Beijing 7th · Jr. NBA Beijing scoring leaderboard 11th
- 2019 — CHBL Beijing 7th (broken toe, then the pandemic)
- 2020 — CHBL Beijing 3rd · league scoring champion · five-star recruit · Beijing Municipal Games champion · Beijing Traditional Schools League champion
No success arrives all at once.A little fame, then arrogance, then reality, then history.
No school wanted me in middle school. I trained my way into an invitation from Capital Normal University High School, started as a freshman, and by sixteen I was the team’s first option. So I stopped putting in the extra work. A broken toe, a torn ankle ligament, three months out, then a lockdown I spent making rap songs. I came back for my last year and started staying late with the freshmen instead of by myself. We took CHBL Beijing 3rd and the Traditional Schools League title — the school’s best in eight years. In 2026 those freshmen broke my record.
- 2016 — Founded the basketball team at Beijing National Day School — a roster with no recruited athletes on it
- 2017 — Haidian District league runner-up, matching the best result in school history
- 2018 — Recruited by Capital Normal University High School
Basketball is a team sport.One person can go fast. A group can go far.
I learned basketball in primary school. No middle-school team would take me, so I ended up at a school that did not have one. In eighth grade I started it — an open call to anyone who wanted to play, and drills I taught myself off the internet. People left for exams and for schools abroad until we were down to six. Then the coach at Capital Normal University High School gave me a tryout and a condition: fifty pounds. I took his drills back to my team, and at the regional tournament we beat his own middle-school squad — a roster of recruited athletes, beaten by a group of ordinary students. He signed me after the season.
Rather than leave a trophy behind,
I would rather leave a culture —
a way of solving problems for whoever comes next.
That is what I think leadership is.