Embyr-Lee Susko

Biography

Embyr-Lee Susko is set to make her Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026.

Susko achieved a major career highlight in her second appearance at the senior FIL World Championships in 2025. She placed fourth in women’s singles and won a bronze medal as a member of the Canadian relay team. Her singles performance also won her the silver medal in the U23 division.

Just a couple weeks after her senior worlds debut in 2024, Susko won the silver medal in women’s singles at the FIL Junior World Championships. She first competed at the junior worlds in 2022, which marked her international debut.  

Susko competed in singles and doubles throughout the 2023-24 season, but her success in singles led her to focus on that event. That success included three straight Junior World Cup victories and her career-best World Cup result, a ninth-place finish in Whistler.

Susko was a double bronze medallist at the 2023 America-Pacific Championships, taking third place in both singles and doubles with Beattie Podulsky.

A Little More About Embyr-Lee

Getting into the Sport: Started luge at age 6, following her older brothers, Cain and Matthew, into the sport… First tried luge during a Cub Scouts field trip… Started sliding from the women’s start position at age 12 because she always wanted to follow the older kids… Made the junior national team in 2020… Had her Olympic dream sparked while watching Vancouver 2010… Outside Interests: Does a lot of knitting during the competitive season to keep her busy on the road… Sometimes sells things she’s sewn, such as fleece hats, through her small business Flower Power Fleeces… In the off-season enjoys being outside in the mountains (climbing, hiking, riversurfing, backpacking)… Studying Business at the University of Calgary… In the process of attaining her private pilot’s license… Odds and Ends: Inspired by her mom, who competed in many sports including ironman triathlons, and Olympic gold medallist in ski cross, Marielle Thompson, who trains at the same gym… Has a stuffed hedgehog named Hairington that her mom gave her when she first made the junior national team and has travelled with it ever since… Favourite motto: “You are so brave”, sometimes as a joke to keep things lighthearted, but also as a reminder that she knows what she’s doing…