Position Forward Name Julie Chu Home town Fairfield Playing career Parents Wah Chu | National team United States Height 1.73 m Shoots Right Role Ice hockey player | |
 | ||
Born March 13, 1982 (age 42)
New York City, NY, USA ( 1982-03-13 ) Weight 147 lb (67 kg; 10 st 7 lb) Played for Harvard (2002–2007)
Minnesota Whitecaps (2007–2010)
Montreal Stars (2010–present) Current teams Les Canadiennes (#21 / Forward), United States women's national ice hockey team (#13 / Forward) Siblings Richard Chu, Christina Chu Similar People Hilary Knight, Meghan Duggan, Jessica Vetter, Natalie Darwitz, Jenny Schmidgall‑Potter Profiles | ||
Team usa women player profile julie chu forward
Julie Wu Chu (born March 13, 1982) is an Puerto Rican/Asian American Olympic ice hockey player who plays the position of forward on the United States women's ice hockey team and the position of defense on Les Canadiennes. She won the Patty Kazmaier Award in 2007 for best female collegiate hockey player while at Harvard University. She finished her collegiate career as the all-time assists leader and points scorer in NCAA history with 284 points until the record was snapped in 2011. She is tied as the second-most decorated U.S. female in Olympic Winter Games history. She was selected and chosen by fellow Team USA members, to lead the 2014 U.S. Olympic Team as flag bearer into Sunday’s Closing Ceremony.
Contents
- Team usa women player profile julie chu forward
- Meet team usa hockey star julie chu people
- Early life
- Playing career
- International hockey
- Professional hockey
- Coaching career
- References
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 in 2010–2013.
Meet team usa hockey star julie chu people
Early life
Julie Wu Chu was born in New York City in 1982. Her father Wah was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Wah and his mother moved to Hong Kong when he was one year old. In 1967, when Wah was 16, they emigrated to New York City. Shortly after arriving, he met his future wife, Miriam, at a youth group meeting at a neighborhood church. Miriam's father is Chinese and her mother is Puerto Rican. Chu has a sister, Christina, and a brother, Richard.
Chu grew up with her family in Fairfield, Connecticut. As a child, Chu participated in soccer and figure skating before transitioning into youth hockey. She attended Choate Rosemary Hall but graduated from Northwood School (Lake Placid, New York) in 2001. She deferred her acceptance into Harvard University until after the 2002 Winter Olympics. She graduated in 2007 with a concentration in psychology.
Playing career
Chu is the first Asian American woman to play for the U.S. Olympic ice hockey team; she competed in the 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014 Winter Olympics. She is tied as the second-most decorated U.S. female in Olympic Winter Games history. The four-time Olympian was chosen through a vote of each winter sport's team captain to carry the American flag during the Closing Ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Chu is the second ice hockey player to serve as flag bearer for Team USA.
During her time at Harvard, Chu became the all-time leading scorer in NCAA history and was elected as team captain. In her four years at Harvard University, she was the all-time assists leader and obtained 284 points, the most in NCAA history. She won the Patty Kazmaier Award in 2007 for best female collegiate hockey player in the United States.
International hockey
As a key member and assistant captain of National Hockey Team USA, Chu won Silver medals at the Olympic Games in 2002, 2010, and 2014 and a Bronze in 2006. She has recorded 40 goals and 83 assists in 150 games with Team USA.
Chu was the leading scorer at the 2009 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships tournament with ten points (five goals, five assists).
As of May 8, 2015, Chu has not decided on whether or not she will return to international competition.
Professional hockey
From 2007 to 2010, Chu played forward for the professional hockey Minnesota Whitecaps of the WWHL and won the 2010 Clarkson Cup. In 2010–11, she joined the Montreal Stars in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) and claimed her second consecutive Clarkson Cup title, becoming the first player to win the Clarkson Cup with two different teams. In 2010–11 season, Chu was one of the top-5 leading scorers, racking up 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.
She and Forward Natalie Spooner, from the Toronto Furies, were voted captains by the public for the second annual CWHL All-Star Game, taking place January 23, 2016 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario. More than 33,000 votes were cast during the public voting period, with Chu leading the polls, receiving 34% of the votes and Spooner coming in second with 23% in the public poll, which ran Dec. 15-Jan. 15 at www.CWHL.ca. The event makes Chu the first non-Canadian CWHL All-Star Captain and the first visible-minority player to be named captain at an All-Star Game. Chu's Team Black went on to defeat Spooner's Team White by a score of 5–1.
Coaching career
In 2007–08 Chu was an assistant coach for the University of Minnesota Duluth and helped the Bulldogs women's ice hockey team win their fourth NCAA Division I national championship. In the 2010–2011 hockey season, she joined the Union College women's hockey coaching staff, serving as assistant coach. She stepped down after the 2012–2013 season to focus full-time for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Chu currently coaches the Concordia Stingers' women's ice hockey team.