In a season that saw all other female contestants voted off first, Phoenix teenager Lauren Froderman hung on to win it all on "So You Think You Can Dance" Thursday, becoming only the third female to win the TV dance competition.
To do so, she had to beat another 18-year-old contemporary dancer to get there, runner-up Kent Boyd of Wapakoneta, Ohio, who many had listed as a favorite.
Robert Roldan, 20, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., finished third in the two hour finale show.
Casting a shadow over all the results were the injuries that took out two of the most promising dancers of season seven, Alex Wong and Billy Bell.
Bell was well enough to recreate some of the dances he did earlier on the show. But Wong, still in crutches, was left to watch one of his standout performances on tape.
On the other hand, his dancing had been so strong that in spired Ellen DeGeneres, the talk show host and retired "American Idol" judge, to recreate a hip hop routine he had done with tWitch Boss.
That performance had been hyped all night as being from a dance superstar and surprise guest, but the Fox network had in fact announced the routine hours earlier.
Producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe mocked the misery of the season full of injuries (Ashley Galvan was also injured and had to leave the competition) by limping on stage at one point on crutches and wearing an oversized cast.
Winning the meaningless moniker "America's Favorite Dancer," Froderman also won $100,000 $250,000, a photo spread in Dance Spirit magazine and a bottle of Gatorade from the previous season winner, Russell Ferguson.
The finale brought a full panel of judges to the table, including one that had been missing most of the season, Mary Murphy, who uncorked one of her "hot tamale train" screams for the occasion.
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