2022-2023: Indoors – Ella enjoyed a stellar indoor season that included winning the WAC indoor championship with a new school record of 43-7/13.28m, as well as the Jarvis Scott Open. She finished 2^nd in the TTU Red Raider Open TJ to open the season. Qualifying for the D1 national meet, Ella would break the school record as she finished 12^th at the NCAA D1 Indoor Nationals in what is considered to be the most competitive indoor national TJ in history. Her jump was 44-0.75/13.43m and extended her own school record from 2 weeks prior. Outdoors – competed in 5 meets outdoors, a highlight was when she won the LJ and TJ at the Oliver Jackson Twilight, before successfully defending her TJ title at the WAC outdoor meet. She would finish the season by placing 19^th in the West Prelim TJ. 

2021-2022: Indoors – won the WAC championship in the triple jump, with an indoor PR of 42-4.75/12.92m. Also finished 2^nd in the Texas Tech Open TJ and 4^th in the Charlie Thomas Invitational at College Station. Outdoors – completed the sweep of winning both WAC triple jump competitions in one season as she won the TJ in Seattle at the conference meet. Also won the Oliver Jackson Twilight TJ with a new PR of 42-6.25/12.96m, finished 3^rd in the TTU Masked Rider Open, and 5^th in the Michael Johnson Invitational. Qualified for the NCAA West Prelim meet and finished 41^st.

2020-2021: Indoors – finished 2^nd in the SLC triple jump, after finishing 3^rd in the Corky Classic TJ in Lubbock behind eventual national champion Ruth Usoro of Texas Tech. All T&F athletes can count this as a redshirt season due to the pandemic. Outdoors – competed in 7 meets for the Wildcats and won the SLC TJ with a huge jump of 43-7/13.28m, but the wind was too high for the jump to be added to the national performance list. Two weeks later, Ella finished 20^th in the NCAA West Prelim triple jump with an outstanding jump of 42-5.5/12.94m. Other highlights during the season include a 3^rd place finish in the TJ at the Baylor Invitational, 4^th in the Michael Johson Invitational TJ, and 3^rd in the Aggie Invitational TJ.

2019-2020: Indoors – competed in 4 indoor meets for ACU and finished the indoor season by placing 11^th in the SLC triple jump. Outdoors – season cancelled due to pandemic and all T&F athletes can count this season as a redshirt season.

2018-2019: Indoors – medical redshirt due to injury. Outdoors – redshirt season, but did compete in the Oliver Jackson Twilight meet unattached.

Before ACU: Placed 7^th in the Finnish U20 triple jump in the summer of 2018 competing under her Finnish name of Tua-Talvikki Anttila. While an exchange student at Jonesboro (TX) HS, Ella competed at the Texas State meet in 1A in 2017 and won the triple jump (with a new 1A state meet record distance of 39-1.5), also placing 2^nd in the long jump and 3^rd in the 100 hurdles at the state meet.

Personal: Ella was a 2018 graduate of Makelanrinteen Lukio in Helsinki, Finland. She finished her BS in Psychology in May of 2022. She is currently working on her MS in Counseling Psychology. Her parents are Jari and Mia-Annukka Anttila

 

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