South Lake Tahoe's Jamie Anderson Takes Gold in Sochi

South Lake Tahoe's hometown girl Jamie Anderson cleaned up her second run to earn the first-ever women’s slopestyle snowboarding gold medal Sunday at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games.

"This is definitely the biggest stage in the world for sports." said Anderson after the historical win. "After getting second at X Games last week I was really passionate and determined to come out here and do my best and do everything I can to be my strongest, most grounded calm self even with the hype of everything on the outside world. It just feels out of control. I can’t even explain what I’m processing now."

Her smooth style during her final run secured her the gold with a score of 95.25, putting her on top of the podium ahead of Finland’s Enni Rukajarvi and Great Britain’s Jenny Jones, who took silver and bronze. The slopestyle final airs on NBC during its primetime Olympic coverage Sunday Feb. 9 at 7:00 p.m.

"I don’t know how it happened," Anderson continued. "I was so impressed with all the girls’ riding. I really was just trying to focus on the run I chose to do, really visualizing that and seeing it to the end and knowing that I was going to land everything perfect and try to do it with as much style as possible. The rest was out of my hands. I just wanted to do what I was capable of doing."

Karly Shorr of Truckee had a 75 on her second run to put her in 6th place.