Born in
Edmonton,
Alberta in
Canada, Ross was on skis at age two at the
Snow Valley ski hill, as her father was a former alpine racer. The family moved to
Klamath Falls, Oregon, when she was age 7 and Ross skied and raced at
Mount Bachelor near
Bend. She was selected to the
U.S. Ski Team in 2006, and made her World Cup debut in December 2009. Ross was moved up to the World Cup team for the 2011 season and represented the U.S. at the
2011 World Championships, where she finished tenth in the
women's downhill. Ross attained her first World Cup podium in March
2013, placing second in a
downhill at
Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
Germany. In the summer of 2013, Ross switched from
Atomic to
Völkl skis. Ross divided her time between the professional ski circuit and the
University of Oregon in
Eugene, where she studied art. She graduated in 2025 from the University of California, Berkeley with a Master of Architecture. ==World Cup results==