Career
She moved to Canada in 1989, but then played professionally in a German club for four years. She played table tennis in her spare time, and represented Canada internationally including the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games. After she stopped competing, she established the Geng Table Tennis Academy.
Jimmy Pintea, Sonia Qin, Andrea Liu, Ly Quan Li, Shannon Zheng have all worked with Geng at the academy.
In 2010 Lijuan was the coach of the National Team players at the National Training Center in Ottawa.