Jillian Vogtli was born in Buffalo, but grew up in Ellicottville, NY. While attending Ellicottville High School, she helped lead the school’s soccer team to a Class D state soccer championship. And it was just down the road from her school that Vogtli started skiing at the Holiday Valley Ski Resort.

In 1996 she graduated from SUNY Brockport, where she was a member of the soccer team, and won the moguls circuit on the Nor-Am Cup later that same year. That victory earned her a spot on the US Ski Team. Shortly afterward, she competed in her first World Cup in Lake Placid in 1997, where she placed 8th in Moguls.

She represented the United States at the at the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002, and at the Torino Olympics in 2006, where she finished 11th overall in the women’s moguls.

Vogtli is a two-time U.S. women’s moguls national champion (2004 and 2005) and she competed for five U.S. World Cup teams (1997, 2001, ’03, ’05, ‘07). In 110 World Cup starts, she earned 8 first, second or third place finishes, including a victory in Moguls in Inawashiro, Japan in 2005. She placed in the top ten 6 out of 7 times in the Freestyle World Ski Championships. Her best finishes in the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships were 6th place in Moguls and Dual Moguls, in 2005 and 2007, respectively.

In 2002, Vogtli shifted gears and added cycling to her portfolio, and after six months of intensive training she won the 2003 Colorado state championship.

Today, Jillian Vogtli lives in Utah, where she is a Certified Fitness & Wellness Coach.