Career
In 1998, the newly promoted Beijing Olympians hired Li as their head coach for their debut season in the Chinese Basketball Association. She thus became the first ever female head coach in the College of Business Administration, but she was fired after only five games and replaced by Mike McGee, a former player of the Los Angeles Lakers, who then became the first ever foreign head coach in the College of Business Administration. The Olympians finished fourth and lost in the semi-finals to the Bayi Rockets in the 1998-1999 season.
