McKayla Maroney’s ‘Pretty Sick’ Silver; Gluckstein Falls on Trampoline (VIDEO)
Maroney hoped for gold in vault; Steven Gluckstein doesn’t make finals, talks to genConnect about his sport
Steven Gluckstein is from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. He started trampoline in 2000 at the age of 10, and he quickly found his niche.
Winning over 8 national titles and several international events as a Junior Elite athlete, Steven was named to the Senior National Trampoline team in 2007. Steven was also the front runner going into the Final Selection event of the 2008 Olympic Trials. In 2009 and 2010, Steven won the US Senior Men's Trampoline Title at the Visa National Championships, and in 2010, was ranked number one in the world in Synchronized Trampoline, winning the two-year World Cup Circuit.
Steven also sits on the New Jersey State Trampoline and Tumbling board as the athlete representative, and has been a Category 1 USA judge since 2008.
He recently earned the one and only men's trampoline spot to represent USA Gymnastics in the 2012 London Olympics.
Maroney hoped for gold in vault; Steven Gluckstein doesn’t make finals, talks to genConnect about his sport
16-year-old American clinches women’s all-around, Aly Raisman takes third but no medal