As the youngest of four siblings, Eliza Outtrim had plenty of family to chase down the slopes of Mount Snow. When the freestyle program got off the ground at the Vermont resort, she and her brother signed up.

After a breakthrough season in 2009, she hit the full World Cup Tour, where she kept charging. In 2010 she grabbed her first World Cup podium, a victory, at the last competition of the season in Sierra Nevada, Spain. Then she went on to earn two silver medals in both duals and singles moguls at U.S. Nationals. In the 2011 season, she finished ninth overall in the World Cup standings for the second year in a row and took her first national title in the duals competition.

Outtrim turned it up another notch the next season, collecting a second career World Cup podium, four top-five finishes and nine top 10s. A silver medal in the dual moguls at U.S. Nationals brought her career medal count to four.

Not surprisingly, 2013 was no different, as Outtrim earned four World Cup podiums and capped out the season ranked fourth. With her eye on the prize in 2014, Outtrim has proven to be one of the most consistent skiers on the U.S. Ski Team.

ELIZA SAYS
The 2012-13 season was my best yet. My season really took off in January with a third in Calgary, followed up with another third in Deer Valley, where I swept the podium with my teammates Hannah and Heather. The sweep in Deer Valley was a great highlight of the year and I hope to see more of it come 2014. I finished up the season with two more podiums and ended fourth in the world, my best standing yet.  

I have many goals I want to reach in the 2013-14 season, including making the 2014 Olympic team. I look forward to an exciting year and I can't wait to get back on the World Cup Tour.   

FIRST TRACKS

Growing up in Hamden, CT, Outtrim and the family skied often, usually at Mount Snow, Vermont. When Mount Snow started a freestyle program, she was on the first team. "There were eight or 10 of us, and we'd ski Waterville Valley, Sunday River, sometimes at Killington. It was fun," she says. She enrolled at Lowell Whitman School in Steamboat, CO and worked through the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club's heralded program. Outtrim kept punching her way up through the NorAms, and when she tied for second in the NorAm moguls standings in 2005, she earned her ticket to the U.S. Ski Team.

OFF THE SNOW

Last summer, Outtrim picked up mountain biking. “I can't believe I've lived in Colorado for nine years and am just now picking it up.  I love, love, love it.”