Gymnastics 2009 Season Review

June 12, 2009

Date	Opponent	Results
Jan. 10	Rocky Mountain Open	First (355.000)
Jan. 18	Nebraska	W (349.050)
Jan. 31	Texas	W (349.050)
Feb. 5	Winter Cup	Individual results
Feb. 21	Iowa	W (354.250)
Feb. 28	Nebraska	W (355.300)
March 7	Minnesota & Stanford	W (357.850)
March 14	Ohio State	W (357.450)
March 21	Penn State	W (366.850)
April 4	MPSF Championship	Second, (358.350)
April 16	NCAA Qualifier	First, (360.950)
April 17	NCAA Team Finals	Third, (361.200)
April 18	NCAA Event Finals	11 All-Americans

Bold indicates home meets
* Individual, non-NCAA event

2009 Season Notes

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NORMAN, Okla.--Head Coach Mark Williams and the Oklahoma men's gymnastics team completed another banner year, finishing undefeated in the regular season and adding three national crowns to its history.

Steven Legendre proved ready to follow in Jonathan Horton's footstep's by capturing three more career individual National Championships. The sophomore claimed the national all-around crown and titles on floor and vault to move past Bart Conner (three titles) in the OU record books. Legendre's five career national titles places him one behind Horton's total.

The Sooners tallied 361.200 points to finish third at the 2009 NCAA Championship in Minnesota. Stanford (362.800) claimed the National Championship, as Michigan (361.500) finished second, and California (361.150) fourth.

Following the 2008 Sooners, who won the program's eighth title, the 2009 team finished with 11 All-America honors as well. Collecting All-America honors for OU this season were seniors Chris Brooks (AA, FX, V), Russell Czeschin (FX, V), Kyle McNamara (HB), and Jacob Messina (PH) and sophomores Bobby Shortle (FX), and Legendre (AA, FX, V).

Oklahoma finished second (358.350) in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation conference championship for the first time since 2004. The team had won 10 out of the last 11 years and the four previous MPSF championships. The Sooners claimed one team event title on vault (64.350) and senior co-captain Chris Brooks finished second in the all-around with a score of 90.050.

Also in 2009, OU added to its international resume by placing three members on the U. S. Senior National Team with senior co-captain Chris Brooks, sophomore Steven Legendre, and former OU gymnasts Jonathan Horton. No current NCAA Division I men's gymnastics program has more members on the Senior National Team than Oklahoma and this is most National Team members that the Sooners have had since 1994 (4).

The 2009 season also marked the end of six collegiate careers for gymnasts Reed Pitts, Russell Czeschin, Jacob Messina, Chris Brooks, Kyle McNamara, and Jason Laughton.

University of Oklahoma Athletics

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