Career
She also participated in several World Allround Championships and competed in the 1500 m and the 3000 m at the 1972 Winter Olympics. Poulos participated in the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and she entered in three distances. The first race was the 1500 m, in which she finished 6th.
The next day, she skated the 500 m and finished 4th – only 0.04 seconds away from a bronze medal.
Poulos-Mueller retired from competition for one year. The following year, Poulos-Mueller finished second at the World Sprint Championships and one week later, at the 1980 Winter Olympics, she participated in the 500 m and the 1000 m, winning silver in both.
Poulos-Mueller was inducted into the National Speedskating Hall of Fame on 13 May 1988.