{"id":2778,"date":"2014-06-19T18:09:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2014-07-01T18:15:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T18:15:33","slug":"julia-clukey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/julia-clukey\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 116: Olympic American Luger Julia Clukey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a0116
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0June 14
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Julia Clukey
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Olympic American Luger Julia Clukey<\/a> was born in Augusta, Maine.\u00a0 She has studied at the University of Maine (Orono) and is currently taking online classes through Devry University to become an engineer.<\/p>\n

Clukey told Stevoe how she discovered her passion for luge at the age of 12,\u00a0during a USA Luge recruitment tour event in Portland, Maine in 1997.\u00a0 She also described for Stevoe what it was like the first time she was on the luge sled.\u00a0 By the age of 13, she was competing at the junior level in international competitions. By age 17, she had captured many individual Junior World Cup medals and was on her way to success.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods (left) host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe recently sat down with Olympic American Luger Julia Clukey (right) to discuss her Camp for Girls at Camp KV.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2010, Clukey reached one of her goals by qualifying for the U.S. Olympic team. \u00a0For the first time in her career she competed in front of a national television audience at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, where she finished 17th.<\/p>\n

In 2010-2011, Clukey continued to climb in the World Cup rankings with top 15 finishes. She posted strong times in December that include a 1st place finish in a Nation\u2019s Cup event and a 5th place finish in a World Cup Event at Park City, Utah in late December.<\/p>\n

In February of 2012, Clukey captured her first two silver medals in World Cup competition. \u00a0After finishing 6th place overall in the final World Cup standings, she was also named the USA Luge \u201cFemale Athlete of the Year\u201d.\u00a0 In 2014, Julia missed qualifying for the U.S. Olympic team, finishing just 13 thousands of a second away from going to the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.\u00a0 Clukey told Stevoe about her intense training schedule, but added that “luge is what I do, but not who I am”.<\/p>\n

Since 2012, each summer Clukey hosts \u201cJulia Clukey\u2019s Camp for Girls at Camp KV<\/a>\u201c on Maranacook Lake in Readfield, Maine. \u00a0The camp was designed for girls ages 8-11 as a place to develop self-confidence and a healthy lifestyle. \u00a0This year will be the third year of camp) many of the girls are underprivileged and receive a scholarship or economic assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Olympic American luger Julia Clukey was recently in the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio to talk about her career as a luger, and what led her to this discovery. Host Steve Woods and Clukey also talked about their recent meeting at the Maine Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony. They also discussed Clukey’s summer camp for girls at Camp KV on Maranacook Lake in Readfield, Maine. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}