Alissa Johnson

Alissa Johnson (born May 28, 1987) is an American ski jumper, who has been ranked in the top ten in the world. She was involved in the drive to add women's ski jumping to the Winter Olympics, being featured in the film Ready to Fly. Johnson attempted to qualify for the event when it was included in the programme at the 2014 Games but was not selected for the US team.

Career Alissa Johnson is the daughter of Alan Johnson, who was a ski jumper during the 1960s. Like her father, and brother Anders Johnson, Alissa became a ski jumper. Alissa completed her first ever ski jump when she was five, and also competed in swimming until the age of 14 to concentrate only on ski jumping. At the time, Johnson was ranked as the tenth best female skier in the world. Around the same time, the funding for women's ski jumping was cut, with Johnson resorting to crowd funding to continue competing.

When her brother competed in Turin in 2006, women's ski jumping was not introduced until the Sochi games in 2014.

She was one of seven women who competed in the first US Olympic trials for women's ski jumping, and Johnson was not selected for the remaining spots. As of 2015, she was unsure whether she would attempt to qualify for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.