Background
Outtrim grew up in Hamden, Connecticut, and when she was young she skied at Mount Snow, Vermont, where she joined the freestyle ski team
Outtrim grew up in Hamden, Connecticut, and when she was young she skied at Mount Snow, Vermont, where she joined the freestyle ski team
Later, she attended the Lowell Whiteman School in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and trained with the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, both of which, the school and the ski team, have produced many Olympic skiers. She attended college while skiing on the United States Ski Team, graduating from Colorado College.
Outtrim earned a spot on the United States Ski Team in 2005, after she tied for second in the Nor-Am Cup moguls rankings. On January 13, 2006, she competed in her first World Cup, which took place in Deer Valley, Utah, and she placed 7th. She started strong, as that was her best World Cup result that season and only top-10 out of those 8 World Cups.
Her highest world ranking was 8th in moguls in 2012, but she was 9th in moguls in 2011 and 2010 as well.
In the World Ski Championships in Inawashiro, Japan, on March 7–8, 2009, she placed 6th in dual moguls and 17th in moguls. But she improved upon that in the 2011 World Ski Championships in Deer Valley, Utah on February 2 and 5, 2011, placing 5th in moguls and 9th in dual moguls.
She has two World Cup podiums, a 1st and a 2nd. Between 2005 and 2010, she was on the Nor-Am Cup podium 14 times, with 7 victories.
Eliza is one of few women on the World Cup who performs the very difficult Doctorate-Spin (an off-axis 720) aerial maneuver in moguls.