6^th in Klingenthal, Germany  
1^st in Summer '05 Team Event

When Brenna Ellis from Park City, UT, began ski jumping, she also made the bold decision to compete in Nordic Combined as well.  She was often the only girl among boys and decided that doing both cross-country and ski jumping was what she wanted to do.  It has only been in the past year that Brenna decided to put up her competitive cross-country skis and focus on special jumping. 

Those long hard hours of training did pay off.  At the past two Junior Olympics, Brenna, who started jumping when she was 6, finished 1st in the women's Nordic combined competition and first in the jumping competition. Brenna's best moments in ski jumping was when she set her personal record kicking out-of-attic on the K-90 in Streamboat Springs, CO and going 96 meters. 

Brenna grew up with 2 sisters who both competed in freestyle skiing. She is currently in 10th grade at Park City High School and works part-time in a restaurant in Park City. She's also been playing soccer competitively since she was four years old.

Brenna has a lot of plans for the next years... “I would like to one day compete in the Olympics for skijumping and to go to competitions all over Europe and compete with women... comps like the men have!"

Brenna recently returned from her first European trip competing in Women's Continental Cups in Austria and Slovenia.  She had an impressive 7th place finish and is looking forward in competing again this season in Norway, Austria and Germany.