Julie Chu
Julie Chu was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States on March 13th, 1982 and is the Hockey Player. At the age of 42, Julie Chu biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Julie Wu Chu (born March 13, 1982) is an American Olympic hockey player who competes for both the national women's ice hockey team and the position of defense on Les Canadiens.
While attending Harvard University, she received the Patty Kazmaier Award in 2007 for the best female collegiate hockey player.
She finished her college career as the all-time assists leader and points scorer in NCAA history with 284 points until the record was broken in 2011.
She is ranked as the second-most decorated U.S. female in Olympic Winter Games history.
She was chosen by fellow Team USA members to be the flag bearer at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi's Closing Ceremony. Chu was an assistant coach for University of Minnesota Duluth and helped the Bulldogs women's ice hockey team win their fourth NCAA Division I national championship in 2008 and served as coach at Union College from 2010 to 2013.
Early life
In 1982, Julie Wu Chu was born in Fairfield, Connecticut. Wah's father was born in Guangzhou, China. When Wah and his mother were one year old, they migrated to Hong Kong. Wah and his family immigrated to New York City in 1967, when Wah was 16 years old. Miriam, his future wife, arrived at a youth group meeting at a neighborhood church just after arriving. Christina and Richard are Chu's sister Christina and brother, Richard. Miriam's father is Chinese, and her mother is Puerto Rican.
Chu grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut, with her family. Before transitioning to youth hockey, Chu participated in soccer and figure skating as a youth. She attended Choate Rosemary Hall but graduated from Northwood School (Lake Placid, New York) in 2001. She postponed her acceptance into Harvard University until the 2002 Winter Olympics. She received a Ph.D. degree in 2007 with a specialization in psychology.
Personal life
Chu is married to Olympic gold medalist Caroline Ouellette. Chu and Ouellette were both teammates with Les Canadiennes de Montréal and spent as assistant coaches of the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the Concordia Stingers. They previously captained their respective national women's hockey teams, which have a lot in common, and they've competed against each other in three Olympic gold medal finals (2002, 2010) and over half a dozen world championships. Liv (born November 2017) and Tessa (born May 2021) are two daughters. Chu became a permanent resident of Canada.
Playing career
Chu was the first Asian woman to play for the United States Olympic ice hockey team; she competed in the 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014 Winter Olympics. She is ranked second in the most decorated U.S. female at the Olympic Winter Games in history. At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the four-time Olympian was chosen by a vote among each winter sport's team captain to carry the American flag. Chu is Team USA's second ice hockey player to serve as a flag bearer.
Chu became the all-time leading scorer in NCAA history during her tenure at MIT and was named team captain. She was the all-time assists leader and gained 284 points in her four years at Harvard University, the most in NCAA history. In 2007, she received the Patty Kazmaier Award for the best female collegiate hockey player in the United States.
Chu, both as a main participant and assistant captain of Team USA, received silver medals at the Olympic Games in 2002, 2010, and 2014, as a bronze medalist in 2006. In 150 games with Team USA, she has scored 40 goals and 83 assists.
Chu was the top scorer at the 2009 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships tournament (five goals, five assists).
Chu had not decided whether or not she would return to international competition as of May 8, 2015.
Chu starred for the Minnesota Whitecaps of the WWHL from 2007 to 2010 and captured the 2010 Clarkson Cup. She played for two different clubs in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) in 2010-2011, winning her second straight Clarkson Cup title, becoming the first player to win the Clarkson Cup with two separate teams. Chu was one of the top-five scorers in 2010-2011, scoring 35 points, 5 goals, and 30 assists in only 19 games.
Chu has also participated in both the inaugural (2014) and second (2015–16) annual CWHL All-Star Games.
The public voted Chu and forward Natalie Spooner from the Toronto Furies into the second annual CWHL All-Star Game, held at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, on January 23, 2016. During the national voting period, more than 33,000 votes were cast, with Chu leading the polls, receiving 44% of the votes, and Spooner finishing in second with 23%. www.CWHL.ca Chu is the first non-Canadian CWHL All-Star Captain and the first visible-minority player to be honoured captain at an All-Star Game. Team Black of Chu Chu's continued to defeat Spooner's Team White by a score of 5–1.
Coaching career
Chu was an assistant coach for the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 2007-08 and he helped the Bulldogs women's ice hockey team win their fourth NCAA Division I national championship. She joined the Union College women's hockey coaching staff in 2010-2011, serving as an assistant coach. She resigned from the 2012-2013 season to focus full-time on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Chu is currently the head coach of Concordia Stingers' women's ice hockey team.