COLUMBIA, Mo. — Jordan Roundtree is all too familiar with being the underdog.
She spent much of her childhood as the new kid, moving to and from six different states in her 22 years. The Roundtree family crisscrossed the country — from Oklahoma to Wisconsin to Illinois to Florida to Missouri —when Jordan’s father, Bill, a Missouri basketball player from 1982-1986, took a new job.
“It made her very resilient,” Roundtree’s mother, Teana, said. “Our motto was always, ‘Bloom where you’re planted.’ It’s never easy, so you just have to make the best effort, make the most of it and just press on.