 Ormerod narrowly missed qualifying for the 2014 Winter Olympics when she was 16.In November 2016, she was placed third at the Big Air World Cup in Pyeongchang, a test event for the venue of the 2018 Winter Olympics, and in January 2017 she won the Big Air World Cup event in Moscow and a bronze medal in the Women's SlopeStyle at the Winter X Games XXI in Aspen.In May 2014, then aged 16, Ormerod became the first female snowboarder to land a "double cork 1080", one of the most complex maneuvers in snowboarding which involves three rotations and two inverted flips.