Julie Chu

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 two siblings.

Chu grew up with her family in Fairfield.

As a child, she participated in soccer and figure skating before transitioning into youth hockey.

Julie Wu Chu (born March 13, 1982) is an American-Canadian former Olympic ice hockey player who played forward on the United States women's ice hockey team and defense with Les Canadiennes of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL).

Julie Wu Chu was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, on March 13, 1982.

Her father Wah was born in Guangzhou, China.

Wah and his mother moved to Hong Kong when he was one year old.

She attended Choate Rosemary Hall but graduated from Northwood School in 2001.

She deferred her acceptance into Harvard University until after the 2002 Winter Olympics.

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.

As a key member and assistant captain of 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.

She won the Patty Kazmaier Award in 2007 for best female collegiate hockey player while at Harvard University.

She graduated in 2007 with a concentration in psychology.

She won the Patty Kazmaier Award in 2007 for best female collegiate hockey player in the United States.

From 2007 to 2010, Chu played forward for the professional hockey Minnesota Whitecaps of the WWHL and won the 2010 Clarkson Cup.

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.

She was previously an assistant coach for the University of Minnesota Duluth and helped the Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey team win their fourth NCAA Division I national championship in 2008 and served as an assistant coach with the Union Dutchwomen of Union College in 2010–2013.

Chu was the leading scorer at the 2009 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships tournament with ten points (five goals, five assists).

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.

She finished her collegiate 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 tied as the second-most decorated US woman in Olympic Winter Games history.

She was selected by fellow Team USA members to be the flag bearer at the Closing Ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

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.

Chu has also participated in both the inaugural (2014) and second (2015–16) annual CWHL All-Star Games.

As of May 8, 2015, Chu had not decided on whether or not she will return to international competition.

Chu has served as head coach of the Concordia Stingers women's ice hockey program in the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) conference of U Sports since 2016.

Chu 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.