She is the first female journalist to receive the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2005 for bringing "honor to journalism and to hockey".
One of the first women to cover the sport, Elliott began her career in the late 1970s when many locker rooms and press boxes were closed to women, except by court order.
She has covered almost all major events in ice hockey, including nearly every Stanley Cup Finals since 1980, the "Miracle on Ice" defeat of the Soviet Union national team by the U.S. team in the 1980 Winter Olympics, and the growth of hockey on the West Coast fueled by Wayne Gretzky's arrival to the Los Angeles Kings.
Elliott is a graduate of Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.
[5] In 2015, she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.