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Date of Birth: Nov.
9, 1985 Residence: San Francisco Education: Sophomore at UC Berkeley studying architecture Ethnicity: Chinese Rating: 2352 Style: Offensive looper/hitter on both sides Equipment: Stiga Clipper Wood with Stiga Magna 2.0 both sides Sponsor: Stiga Clubs Played: Oakland TTC, Lawton TTC |
Jackie Lee won her first victory at the National Table Tennis Championships at the age of nine. She'd been playing pong for less than a year and since then the Cal-Berkeley sophomore has chalked up countless titles, including a mind-boggling 57 national titles, and finished an impressive second at the open-class 2005 North American Championships, losing to 35-year-old Gao Jun-a former Olympic Silver Medalist. She was the 2005 Collegiate Women's Singles and Doubles champion. She made the U.S. Women's National Team three years in a row. She now has attended the World Championships in Qatar, China, and Germany and the World Junior Championships in Chile. She also made the national collegiate team for the 2006 World University Championships but was unable to attend because of summer school.
She narrowly missed out in making the 2004 US Olympic Team as she was the next person in line to advance to the final stage of the North American Olympic Trials. Only two female players from the US advanced to the final stage of the trials and she finished third. She took her first semester off UC Berkeley to train for the Olympic Trials and played professionally in the top-level female league in Sweden representing the prestigious Angby club in Stockholm, Sweden. This is the same club where World and Olympic Champion Jan-Ove Waldner and World and European Champion Mikael Appelgren played for. A five-foot two-inch pint-sized dynamo, Lee has her sights set on the 2008 Olympics in China and often goes to San Diego to take lessons from World Champion Stellan Bengtsson.