Biography
Elliott snow-skied when she was two years old.
Elliott's BMX career lasted from 1980 until 1986, and saw a brief comeback in 1989.
From an early age, she was not only dominant in the girls division of BMX (formerly called "Powder Puff"), but was also usually competitive with boys in her age group. An athletic strawberry blond with deep dimples when she smiled, Elliott was approximately five feet tall in the seventh grade, making her somewhat larger than most of the boys in her class at Will Rodgers Intermediate Junior High School and the boys at the BMX track.
During her racing career—and while in the sixth grade of junior high school—Elliott was asked to play "first string"' on the varsity senior high school Basketball team. She helped that high school team win a championship. She continued pursuing other sports during her BMX career, and after leaving the sport in 1986.
Elliott was named Most Valuable Player in both basketball and volleyball during her senior year of high school.
She also played in her college freshman year at the University of the Pacific.
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