Clukey started luge in 1999 and became US youth champion in 2000. She won the title again the following year and was third at the US Junior Championship. In 2002 and 2003 she won the silver medal. With the US team, she won the team competition at the Junior World Championships in 2003. Clukey has been competing in the Luge World Cup since the 2006/07 season . She contested her first race at Königssee , where she finished fifth. She could not improve this result in her first season in the World Cup. At the 2007 Luge World Championships she finished eighth at her first World Championship. At the beginning of the Luge World Cup 2007/08 , Clukey finished fourth and had her best ever World Cup result.
At the 2008 Luge World Championships in Oberhof , Clukey finished 12th. In the 2008/09 season she lost the connection to the top of the world and was only 30th in the overall World Cup ranking. Only at the 2009 Luge World Championships on her home track in Lake Placid did she convince as fifth. In the following Luge World Cup in 2009/10 , Clukey found his way back on the road to success and qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver with good World Cup results . There she finished 17th after four runs. Before the fourth and final run she finished 16th but fell as run 25. still back to 17th place. At the US Championships in Lake Placid in 2010, she won the bronze medal in the single-seater.
In the 2010/11 season Clukey drove in Park City once more than fifth to a top place. However, during the season she was diagnosed with Chiari malformation . Despite this illness, she won her first national title at the beginning of winter 2011/12. At Königssee she was part of the team relay for the first time and immediately finished fifth with her team members. At the end of the season, Clukey celebrated her first two podium places with second place in Lake Placid in the individual and second place in the team relay. At the beginning of the 2013/14 Olympic season , she won silver at the US championships. As a result, however, there were no top placements in the World Cup. In the association's internal elimination for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she only missed qualifying by 0.013 seconds.
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