 She is from Brighouse, West Yorkshire.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.