USA Hockey Feature on Julie Chu
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 02:31PM 
Julie Chu and Brian Leetch at CT Hockey Hall of Fame NigBy Doug Williams
Special to USAHockey.com
Julie Chu didn’t have dreams of being an Olympian when she started playing hockey as a little girl in Connecticut.
Back then there was no such thing as women’s hockey in the Olympic Winter Games.
She wasn’t chasing a vision; she was just chasing the puck. Hockey was something fun to play, pure and simple.
“For me, I just kind of fell into the sport,” said Chu, who turned 30 last week. “And when I started playing, I loved it from the beginning.”
She had no idea the game would take her on the trip of a lifetime.
Today, Chu is a role model for girls all over the United States, a woman who has skated up the hockey ladder to heights she never imagined and opened doors along the way for others to follow.
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