Age at Games: 17

High School: Logan Park High School, Dunedin

Ethnicity: NZ European

Career highlight: 21st in Youth World Cup race at Konigssee in Germany (8/12/2019)

How did you get into your sport: My family own a crib in Naseby, I started luging as a 7 year old in a school holiday camp.

What do you love about the sport: What I love about luge is the speed, the adrenaline, the thrill that sliding down an icy slope at 100+ kph gives you. And also what it takes to luge. Luge takes everything, every muscle must work, every line must be good, your start strong and brain focused. If you get it right it is incredible. The feelings after a good run are indescribable. If you get it wrong it’s rather painful. I love that it’s high risk, high reward.

Ella Cox

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