‘I Was So Stoked’

Westporter Julia Moreno, 18, is all smiles after completing a first place award-winning run tonight at the women’s Big Air At Fenway snowboard finals in Boston’s Fenway Park “I was so stoked,’’ Marino told the Boston Globe. “I was so happy actually to be able to put down my runs and win. This is an amazing place to have a snowboarding contest. It’s definitely the coolest, most creative place to have a contest because it’s so unique. There’s never been anything like this. It’s just a big jump in the middle of a baseball stadium and that’s pretty cool to say.’’ Marino is a 2018 Olympic hopeful when the Big Air event debuts at the Winter Olympics in South Korea, Julia’s mom, Elaine, said she heads Friday night to Quebec to compete in the Quebec City Big Air. She departs Sunday morning with the U.S. snowboarding team, to compete in a FIS World Cup slope style contest in Pyeong Chang, South Korea, the course that the Olympians will ride in 2018. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Photo from NBCsports.com