Emma's Story
Fast Facts
Sport: Freestyle Skiing
Event: Moguls
Olympic History: Milano Cortina 2026
Highlights: Competing at the 2025 World Championships in St Mortiz, Switzerland
Year Born: 2002
About Emma
Moguls skier Emma Bosco has turned years of hard work, recovery from a serious knee injury and her most consistent World Cup season to date into securing selection for her first Olympic Team at Milano Cortina 2026.
Emma is part of Australia’s new wave of mogul skiers, steadily turning promise into performance while balancing elite sport with engineering study at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Hailing from the Perisher Winter Sports Club, she has increasingly tested herself on the North American and World Cup circuits. The National Development Team member has secured Olympic selection due to her extremely consistent 2025-26 World Cup season.
As a teenager, Emma earned selection to the extended national mogul team and was on course for a rapid rise when a knee injury in 2020 halted her momentum. Guided and encouraged by dual Olympian Taylah O’Neill, who had endured similar setbacks, Emma rebuilt patiently and returned to competition at the North American Cup in early 2022, two years after her previous start. The experience deepened her resilience and sharpened her focus on a long‑term Olympic goal.
Her results began to climb in 2024. In April, she won the women’s moguls in the FIS Open at Snowbird (Utah, USA). Competing for Park City Ski & Snowboard while training in the US delivered a confidence‑building international victory. A month earlier, she produced a career‑best North American Cup result at Val Saint‑Côme, Canada, placing fourth in single moguls and 10th in dual moguls, the top Australian female across both women’s events that weekend.
In January 2025, Emma represented Australia at the Winter World University Games in Torino, competing as a UNSW Sydney student and finishing eighth in the women’s dual moguls, a breakthrough top‑10 at a major multi‑sport meet and a valuable taste of championship pressure.
That northern winter also brought Emma’s World Cup debut at Waterville Valley, USA. In a deep field on the birthplace of freestyle skiing, she placed 27th in qualification, a solid first step at the top level and an opportunity to benchmark against the world’s best.
Selection for her first World Championships followed in March 2025. On the Corviglia course in Engadin, Switzerland, Emma lined up in both moguls and dual moguls, advancing to the women’s dual moguls finals and placing 17th overall after the round of 32, an encouraging result on World Championship debut.
Emma’s steady rise reflects a methodical progression: rebuilding from injury, stacking competitive reps in the North American Cup, and translating those lessons to bigger stages at the World Championships and World Cup circuit.
Ahead of the 2025-26 season, she sat inside the top 40 on the FIS World Ranking List for moguls on the provisional Olympic allocation list, evidence that her Milano Cortina 2026 ambition was in reach if she continues her upward trend.
After two 15th-place finishes at the Australian New Zealand Cup events at Perisher in August, she put in another big training block and headed for the northern hemisphere 2025-26 World Cup season. At the opening round in Ruka, Finland, she secured 25th and 20th, just short of qualifying for the Finals.
As the pre-Olympic competition season heated up after Christmas, she maintained a consistent place amongst the world’s best. At Val St. Come (Canada), she was 27th in moguls and 22nd in dual moguls. At the final World Cup event to secure Olympic selection, she was 23rd in the moguls.
Emma’s steady rise reflects a methodical progression: rebuilding from injury, stacking competitive reps in the North American Cup, and translating those lessons to bigger stages at the World Championships and World Cup circuit. It will be exciting to see what she can produce on the Livigno Aerials and Moguls Park as a 23-year-old on Olympic debut.
Away from the start gate, Emma keeps her academic trajectory moving, studying Mechanical Engineering (Honours) at UNSW, while drawing on a close‑knit Australian moguls cohort for day‑to‑day motivation. The mix of study, travel and competition has required resilience and careful planning, but the dividends are clear: a first international win, a World University Games top‑10, a World Championships start, a full World Cup season and now Olympic selection. Those milestones have helped define her skiing identity - calm, consistent and technical.
