Ye Li
Chinese basketball player (born 1981)
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Ye Li (simplified Chinese: 叶莉; traditional Chinese: 葉莉; pinyin: Yè Lì; born November 20, 1981) is a Chinese professional basketball player who played for the Shanghai Octopus of the Women's Chinese Basketball Association and the China women's national basketball team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[1] She also won a gold medal as part of the Chinese women's basketball team at the 2003 Summer Universiade.
Ye Li | |
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叶莉 | |
| Born | November 20, 1981 Shanghai, China |
| Occupation | Basketball player |
| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) |
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| Children | 1 |
Born in Shanghai, Ye Li attended the University of Houston,[2] where she met Chinese basketball player Yao Ming at the age of seventeen in 1998.[3] They married on August 6, 2007.[4] Ye gave birth to their daughter Yao Qinlei (whose English name is Amy) in Houston, Texas on May 21, 2010.[5]
