Julia MARINO

United States of America

Snowboard

Date of Birth: 11 Sep 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Place of birth: YONKERS, NY

Birth Country:

United States of America

Residence: WESTPORT, CT

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Snowboard	Women's Snowboard Slopestyle	2
	Women's Snowboard Big Air	DNS

Schedule

Location	Event	Status
Genting Snow Park H & S Stadium	Women's Snowboard Slopestyle Qualification	Finished
Genting Snow Park H & S Stadium	Women's Snowboard Slopestyle Final	Finished
Big Air Shougang	Women's Snowboard Big Air Qualification	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location
10	Women's Big Air	2018	PyeongChang, KOR
11	Women's Slopestyle	2018	PyeongChang, KOR

World Cup Rankings
Season	All	Halfpipe	Slopestyle	Big Air	Overall Park&Pipe
2021/2022			33	17	50
2020/2021			22	10	30
2019/2020			8	15	11
2018/2019			19	7	18
2017/2018			28	3	7
2016/2017			2	3	3
2015/2016			46	1	13
2014/2015			25		51
2013/2014	149		36
2012/2013	70		11
2011/2012	161	36

World Cup - Best Achievements
Season	Slopestyle
2013/2014	1 x 17th

Hobbies:

Photography, playing guitar, drawing, skateboarding, travelling, gardening, and going on adventures with her dog, Ziggy. (heavy.com; usskiandsnowboard.org)

Occupation:

Athlete

Education:

St. Joseph High School (Trumbull, CT, USA)

Family:

Father, John Marino. Mother, Elaine Marino. Sister, Cece.

Languages spoken:

English, French

Coach:

National: Mike Jankowski (USA)
Personal: Max Henault (CAN)

Other sports:

Football: State champion football player. After winning gold at 2017 X Games, she gave up a Division I college football scholarship to focus on snowboarding. (heavy.com; xgames.com, 19 Jan 2020)

Debut:

2015 World Championships in Kreischberg (Slopestyle - 15th)
2015 World Cup in Park City (Slopestyle - 13th)

Injuries:

Jan 2020: Fractured left radius.

National team:

2014

Start:

Originally preferred skiing over snowboarding but ended up making a switch at age eight. Began competing and training at age 12. (wnyt.com, 6 Nov 2017)

Reason:

During a family ski vacation she broke one of her skis and was forced to use a snowboard instead. "Dad said he wouldn't rent more skis because I had a perfectly good snowboard." (wnyt.com, 6 Nov 2017)

Training:

Does much of her training in Quebec (Mont Castor in Sainte-Agathe) with Canadian coach Max Henault. (dewtour.com)

Memorable:

Winning an X Games gold medal as a rookie in January 2017. (Athlete, 19 May 2020)

Hero:

Baseball player Jackie Robinson (USA), first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. "In middle school, I wrote a research paper on him and learned a lot about his life and the challenges that he faced. Knowing the tremendous amount of hardship that he overcame is truly motivating. Even with everything that he went through, he never allowed those extreme obstacles to play as an excuse or stop him from achieving his athletic goals or his goals for achieving racial equality." (wnyt.com, 6 Nov 2017)

Influence:

Her parents. "They showed me endless support and confidence in me through my entire life and that's something I've always appreciated. Getting into this kind of career wasn't easy either. It was expensive and required a lot of traveling and being away from home at a young age. But they knew it was my dream and they were fully committed in every way to helping me achieve that dream." (wnyt.com, 6 Nov 2017)

Philosophy:

Luck is at the intersection of hard work and opportunity. (wnyt.com, 6 Nov 2017)

General Interest

CHILDHOOD FRIEND
Besides competing at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, she had the opportunity to reunite with her Korean childhood friend (Kim Chaihyun), originally from Seoul, that she had befriended in kindergarten in the United States of America. (kxan.com, 21 Feb 2018)

CHEERING SECTION
She had 17 friends and family members cheering her on in her Olympic Winter Games debut at PyeongChang 2018. (deadspin.com, 26 Feb 2018)

PAYBACK
Her parents feel like they already paid for college for her, by paying for her sports expenses when she was 16. Appreciating what her parents did for her, as soon as she was a professional and earning her own money, she started paying her own expenses and gave 10% of her earnings back to be put into her sister Cece's college fund. (deadspin.com, 26 Feb 2018)

Milestones

Silver medallist in women's slopestyle at Beijing 2022.

Made her Olympic Winter Games debut at PyeongChang 2018 competing in big air (10th) and slopestyle (11th), where she fell on both her runs in extremely bad weather, as did many others.

In two World Championship appearances (2015, 2019), she has a pair of 19th place finishes in slopestyle.

Finished 13th in slopestyle in her one start at the Junior World Championships in 2015.

Five World Cup wins. Her first was in February 2016 in her first big air competition, held at Fenway Park (Boston, MA, USA), where she burst into the spotlight.

Seven-time X Games medallist, 2017 X Games slopestyle champion.

In 2015, at age 18, became the first woman ever to land a double in a slopestyle competition - she landed not one but two in the same run - a cab double underflip and a double backflip. (usskiandsnowboard.org)

Social Media

Legend

:: Silver
:: Gold Medal Event
DNS:: Did Not Start

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