You could say Cassie Sharpe anted up in a big way.

With M.O.P’s Ante Up cranked in her headphones, the 25-year-old freestyle skier claimed her first Dew Tour win on Friday in Breckenridge, Colorado.

She turned a technically difficult second run — right cork 900, left flare, right 360, switch 360, straight air truck driver, left cork 900, right flare — into 93.66 points and a superpipe victory at the invitation-only event.

“It feels pretty good, honestly,” said the Calgary native who grew up in Comox, B.C. “It’s just nice to be at a big event where it’s only invited athletes, and to be able to go against the best in the world and be able to persevere and be on top, it feels awesome,” she said.

She has already won on the World Cup tour this year as well, taking gold in New Zealand in September. But she fell back to ninth at Copper Mountain just last week and came into the Dew Tour ranked second overall in World Cup points behind Marie Martinod of France.

“It felt good to get another podium under my belt,” said Sharpe, who has been on the World Cup since since 2012. “I’m super happy, super proud to be riding the way that I am. The technicality in there of rotating both ways, flipping both ways and riding backwards in the halfpipe all adds up to a pretty technical run.”

Martinod finished second at 92.00 and American Maddie Bowman was third with 90.33 in the eight-woman final.

The original field of 21 included all the usual World Cup podium threats, attracted by prize money and the fact this event was also an Olympic qualifier.

“I had a lot of people asking me how I’m thinking, because it was an Olympic qualifier, how that weighed on my mind,” said Sharpe. “But honestly, when I’m at the top of the pipe, I’m not thinking about anything else. I’m not thinking about people looking at me, I’m not thinking of the cameras, I’m not thinking about the potential Olympic significance that it can have.

“I’m just trying to stay focused and in the moment of what I’m doing. Once I land a run and I take my headphones off and I can hear everyone, that’s when I have that moment of ‘whoa!’”

This win gives her confidence and a boost for the rest of the season, but she knows how wide open the Olympic competition will be in February. She finished fifth at a test event at PyeongChang last February.

“I think on any given day any of the eight women who make the final can be on top of the podium. It truly depends on the day. The top eight are all so close, we all leapfrog each other, but definitely when one of us is on, we’re on, and that’s it.”

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