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The day after the national team was announced, her parents, brother, and sister each got tattoos bearing the Olympic rings and Julie’s No. 13, according to NBC’s 2010 Winter Olympics Web site.
Chu started to play hockey as an eight-year-old in Connecticut, after spending time as a figure skater and soccer player. She captained her high school hockey team at Choate Rosemary Hall until she was asked to join the national team as a senior.
With several national championship performances and an Olympic appearance under her belt—not to mention the co-authorship of “I Am a Skater”—Hughes by no means resembles the typical Harvard undergraduate. But for all her athletic accomplishments, she says...
“There are all sorts of stars in the class, people who are doing things on a regional or a national or an international level,” he said. “The skating regimen is pretty relentless...I think what was required of her was pretty...
Hughes’s love affair with skating began at the age of three, when her mother would take her out to the rink with her older siblings. Soon enough, her bouts on the rink evolved into a passion for figure skating, and in the 2004 to 2005 season, Hughes...