Kumi Nakada has just ended the time to take on the position of the coach of the Japanese women's volleyball team after the Tokyo Olympic Games is not very good when the home team stops in the group stage.
However, it is undeniable that she is one of the legends of cherry women's volleyball. The person who has contributed greatly to help the home team win the Los Angeles Olympic Games 1984.
Kumi Nakada started playing volleyball in junior high school, she was known to be able to beat the ball with both hands and was called in the Japanese national team in 1980 when she was 15 years old.
Only three years later, she became the top star of the team and helped bring back the gold medal in the Asian Championship.
Owning a height of 1.76m but she succeeded in the first time attending the Olympic Games in the US. 4 years later, she also brought the home team to the semi -finals and won the 5th position at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
She also participated in the 4th and Saturday -4th Investment Prize, played in 3 World Cups and was honored with the best athlete in the 1989 World Cup.
In her career at the club, she played for Hitachi Belle Fille Kodaira from 1981 to 1993 with 10 national championships and retired shortly afterwards. She used to hold the youngest athlete in Japan's No. 1 tournament when it was 16 years old, the record was kept until 2007.
Regarding the coaching career, she started as a training assistant at the team that was attached to her before going to Italy to develop her career. In 2011, she returned to Japan as the head coach of Hisamitsu Spring and created the powerful empire of this team over the years.
She now returns to the whole team to lead this team after defeating in the Olympic Games and helped the home team have impressive achievements in the past season when ranking first national tournament.