LSU athletics has captured a handful of national championships in the past calendar year. In 2023, their baseball and women’s basketball programs brought home Natty’s in their respective fields. This year, the women’s gymnastics team kept the title parades in Baton Rouge, LA, going after they won the program’s first-ever title.
LSU’s women’s basketball coach, Kim Mulkey, knows a thing or two about winning a program’s first-ever title, as that is exactly what she and the Tigers did last season. During LSU’s women’s gymnastics championship celebration, Mulkey was there to embrace and congratulate the gymnastics team as they celebrated their accomplishment.
You can see the Tigers women’s basketball head coach at the championship parade in 2024, showing love to the Queens of College Gymnastics.
LSU wins women’s gymnastics national championship
When the smoke finally settled on the final round of the gymnastics championship competition, it was indeed LSU that finished out on top, bringing home a national title and besting a crowded field of competitors. And it helps LSU shed an ignominious title: The best program to never be national champions.
That reality is no longer. And the Tigers got over the hump by a narrow margin.
Cal, Utah, and Florida pushed the Tigers to the edge, but neither the Pac-12 outfits nor their SEC rivals could match the Tigers’ team effort.
“I love these kids so much and they did everything we asked them to, all year long,” head coach Jay Clark said on the ABC broadcast after the win. “They never complained, they were unselfish when they needed to be but it was hard, from time to time. We weren’t without adversity and we caught some breaks and made it interesting sometimes, but it feels fantastic and I’m just so happy for them. I’m speechless.”
LSU won with a final match score of 198.225. Cal finished in second place with 197.85, Utah finished third with 197.80 and Florida came fourth with 197.4375.
It was a tight race for the lead right to the very end and the Tigers needed a strong performance on the beam during the fourth and final rotation in order to secure the title. The job fell to Aleah Finnegan to close out the match for the Tigers, and she delivered.
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