Foucher works on the CrossFit Level 1 Seminar Staff, and graduated from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in 2017.
[2] Foucher came to CrossFit Ann Arbor / HyperFit USA in the summer of 2009 with a background in high school gymnastics and track and field.
At the time, she was pursuing a degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan and preparing to apply to medical school.
During her Games debut, Julie Foucher had stand-out performances on "Amanda" (5th place in 8:06 consisting of 9-7-5 repetitions of muscle-ups and 95-lb.
[4] The next year, Foucher moved from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Cleveland, Ohio, to begin medical school in the fall.
Foucher instead competed individually at the 2011 Games, winning the Beach Event at the Santa Monica Pier in 39:04, the fastest of all the women[5] and all but nine of the men.
[10] She returned in 2014 determined to win the title "Fittest on Earth", but the top spot on the podium was the only achievement that had eluded her.
She worked with Olympian Dominique Moceanu and Ohio State Gymnast Mike Canales[11][12] and enlisted the help of other world-renowned coaches.
She earned a remarkable 8th-place finish on the triplet of rowing, chest-to-bar pull-ups, and strict deficit handstand push-ups, and closed out by completing the 15 muscle-ups of the final event while skipping the 5 cleans that followed.
"[17] Foucher is a medical student at the Cleveland Clinic, where she is studying to become a primary care and functional medicine physician.