Thursday, April 9, 2009

The MODAN Girls! Molly Ellowitz





Molly Ellowitz
Hometown: El Paso, TX
Current residence: Salt Lake City, UT
Age: 19

Molly Ellowitz is one of the originals of Modan productions and is thoroughly excited to see this actually coming together. Molly moved to Utah with her family at a very young age and has been skiing the Wasatch Range since she was 3 years old. At about the age of 11 Molly started keeping up with her brother and family in the big mountain including the infamous peaks of Alta and Snowbird. Around 3 years ago, with the influences of her good friends she picked up park skiing here in Utah and quickly developed a niche for the sport. Molly has been skiing with Salomon skis and Alta Sports for 3 seasons and Scott goggles for 2 seasons. Using girl skiers as influences including Sarah Burke, Ingrid Backstrom, and good friends Ashley Battersby, Dania Assaly and Veronica Kelly as immediate inspiration in pipe, on jumps and on rails. While Molly skis she jams out to Lil Wayne, DL Incognito, Cool Kids, Bob Mary, Cali P and of course Britney Spears. As Molly's forte is jumping her favorite trick is a mute 5. Molly this season has focused a lot on getting her air sense down and you can tell that she feels good and confident throwing anything in the air now it has been so fun watching her improve this season I can only imagine where she is going to take skiing! Molly took some time off competing this year to play in the powder and hang more with her friends this year she competed in the queens cup which she and her team won the previous year. Molly tweaked her knee at queen's cup which unfortunately put a little damper on her season but she is heading down to Mt. Hood with fellow team member and good friend Anna Borgman to shred Windells for the summer. Molly is always down to party and has a positive outlook on life, she loves to climb, travel, camp hike and so much more. Being that Molly grew up so close to the mountains and the outdoors Molly became a very outgoing person and loves to be outdoors. Molly is a great girl and an amazing skier and we are so glad to have her on our team!