Defying Last Year’s Challenges, LSU Gymnastics Team Triumphs Over Arkansas Razorbacks

3 weeks into the meet, the collegiate gymnastics season for 2024 has taken on interesting turns to offer talents new and veteran alongside a grappling for the top spot. The LSU Tigers, who scored the first 198 for the season, have been well fitting the categories as they take on an exciting season. Today, as they aimed for momentum down the path, goodness awaited the team against the Razorbacks. 

“Our focus is to adhere to our standard and be the team that we know we can be,” Coach Jay Clark had said in the wake of the showdown against Arkansas. And today, with a comfortable lead from the start, the LSU Tigers abided by and rather well, to fetch another score on their impressive gymnastics scorecard.

LSU Tigers defy a pattern

The last time the LSU Tigers and Arkansas Razorbacks went against each other was in Jan 2023. Then, the Razorbacks created history by beating LSU to set a program record score. However, today, the Tigers changed the course as Haleigh Bryant led the team on three events, scoring a perfect 10 on the floor to put up 198.475 and fetch the team the highest gymnastics score for the country this season, in presence of over 12 thousand audiences at Baton Rouge.

Moreover, the team also recorded the program’s highest score which last read 198.375 in 2015. Following the last performance against Missouri, Clark had said “If we’re going to be the team we say we are, we can’t sleepwalk through a meet like that… It’s going to get better, I promise.” And the LSU gymnastics stars rose to the occasion.

A promising path for the LSU gymnastics stars

It was a good pace for LSU gymnastics from the start of the meet. Starting with Vault, senior and standout, Haleigh Bryant put up 9.975. The top score for the event further contributed to the team’s 49.525. Bryant stood out twice more as she recorded a perfect 10 on the floor and then a 39.825 all-around. While Savannah Schoenherr led the team on Uneven bars, freshman and Olympic hopeful, Konor McClain conquered the balance beam with 9.975.

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Throughout the team, LSU Tigers dominated the Razorbacks in all 4 of the events with a comfortable lead. In doing so, LSU matched the program record on the floor for 49.775 and set a season high on beam with 49.625. The impressive numbers have pushed the Tigers to adorn 5-2 overall and 2-1 in the South-eastern Conference.  The LSU women’s gymnastics program has unfortunately never recorded a Championship in its 5-decade history. However, the team made it to 4th last season, and with the numbers they have recorded for 2024, the path down glistens for the Tigers.

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