Career
As a youngster, Piili pursued various sporting interests including ballet, rhythmic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics and tennis. At age fourteen, after seeing sports aerobic on television for the first time, she became strongly interested in the sport but was barred from participation because of her age. At age sixteen she began training with the goal of competing when she turned eighteen.
However, to her fortune a novice category for athletes ages sixteen to eighteen was introduced to the Finnish Championships that very year.
Thus Piili was able to compete immediately. After graduating from secondary school in Lappeenranta, Piili moved to the town of Jyväskylä in Central Finland to train.
While in Morocco for that competition, she consumed bacteria-tainted food and developed an infection in her back that impeded her training for a period. In 2004, as the "most successful representative of Sports Aerobics", Piili was selected as "Aerobic athlete of the year" by the Finnish Sports Federation.
Piili has appeared twice on the Finnish game show Kymppitonni.
She also did a segment on the Finnish television show Fit 4 You in which she kickbikes up Paloheinä hill in Helsinki. She currently still lives in Jyväskylä, Central Finland.
