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This year’s Winter Games have special meaning for Botterill as they take place in her home country of Canada. Though winning three Olympic medals would be any athlete’s dream, representing one’s country on home turf is particularly significant—and so far the extra pressure has paid off, with the Canadian women’s hockey team winning three decisive victories against Slovakia, Switzerland, and Sweden this past week...
...native of Winnipeg, Canada, Botterill has both ice-skating and Olympics in her blood as her mother competed in two Winter Games as a speed skater...
Botterill took time off to compete in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City and brought home a second medal—this time gold...
After Julie Chu ’07 tried out for the 2002 Winter Olympics her senior year in high school, her father made a bet that the whole family would get tattoos if she made the U.S. Olympic women’s ice hockey team...
...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...