Li Yuan, born on May 29, 2000 in Yantai City, Shandong Province, is a Chinese women's basketball player, serving as a point guard, and currently plays for the WCBA Inner Mongolia Nongxin Women's Basketball Team.
Li Yuan was born in a sports family, her parents were athletes, one practiced football, the other engaged in track and field, little Li Yuan was also placed on high expectations by her parents, she began to participate in sports activities at a very young age, inherited her parents' excellent genes, her athletic talent is outstanding, especially physical speed, which makes her full of vitality. When he was a child, Li Yuan practiced roller skating and learned to swim, until he was selected by the Zhifu District Sports School in the third grade of primary school to start practicing basketball, and Li Yuan, who had just come into contact with basketball, became a team scorer, not only able to break through three points, but also pass well to mobilize the whole team to attack, in 2010 Li Yuan entered Yantai Sports School and began more professional training.
From the sports school to the Shandong provincial team, although Li Yuan is not tall, he is fast, hardworking, full of fighting spirit, and full of aura on the court. When the Chinese women's basketball team was continuously suppressed by the Japanese small guards and began to carry out reforms, Li Yuan ushered in the opportunity of her national team, won the gold in the National Games, and won the U18 Asian Cup, which made people see her potential, and Li Yuan, who entered the national team, never left and became the secret of the national team. In the WCBA, Li Yuan also became an all-star, and she was able to connect the team well from Shandong to Inner Mongolia. With the rise of the Chinese women's basketball team again, Li Yuan also followed the Chinese women's basketball team to win the Asian Cup championship, the Asian Games championship, and the World Cup runner-up.
On February 8, 2024, in the women's basketball Olympic qualifying match, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated New Zealand, and Li Yuan contributed 5 points, 11 assists and 4 steals. When Wang Siyu was not in good shape, Li Yuan came off the bench to help the team win, especially his attitude of actively fighting on the field was impressive. Calm but full of fighting spirit, young but mature and steady, Li Yuan on the court used her efforts to help the Chinese women's basketball team win.