Steven Legendre – NCAA Floor champion

The rookie from WOGA is the next big superstar from NCAA powerhouse Oklahoma.

Click PLAY or watch Steven’s gold medal routine on YouTube.

I asked Steven why he lands so many skills facing forwards. (He won vault with Handspring double front.) And assumed that he was trying to maximize his start scores. Actually, he has inflexible ankles. He said he has always preferred landing forward because landing “short” from backwards rotation is painful.

Newly crowned national team champs Oklahoma added three event titles to their ever-growing collection as the 2008 NCAA National Championships concluded Saturday in Stanford, Calif., proving their team title upset was no fluke.

Freshman Steven Legendre easily secured the floor win with a whopping 6.5 “A” (difficulty) score that netted him a 16.1. …

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