Following Boyfriend’s Stellar Debut, Olivia Dunne Scores Career High at NCAA Gymnastics Regionals

First Paul Skenes slayed. Now his girlfriend has complimented him on her way! The 2024 NCAA Regional Competition that commenced on April 3 will be a stepping stone to the National Championships starting on April 18. While the initial day of the Regionals ended LSU sensation, Olivia Dunne left everyone awe-struck by starting her Regionals 2024 journey with a career-high performance.

This comes days after Paul Skenes’ dazzling debut in the Triple-A took over the internet. Now, along similar lines, the NCAA’s highest-earning female athlete is true to her words that she wants to last long while etching her name in the history books of her university.

A post on X by LSU Gymnastics recently revealed that 21-year-old Olivia Dunne slaying the floor routine during the 2024 NCAA Regionals in April’24. The post declared, “Olivia Dunne matches her career high and closes us out with a 9.90!” This brought back memories of her performance from a month back.

This record was just like re-creating the same history that Olivia Dunne had made in the Purple and Gold Classic on Friday, March 8, 2024. At the Raising Cane’s River Center in Baton Rouge on that occasion, she had stunned the audience with a 9.90 in the floor routine. While she has outperformed in her recent routine in the 2024 NCAA Regionals, let us turn our eyes at the baseball arena, or to be more specific, at her boyfriend, Paul Skenes!

2023 MLB Draft’s top pick does justice to his name

Just as the Pittsburgh Pirates sent Paul Skenes, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 MLB Draft, to gain more professional experience in his sport of baseball, the No.3 overall shone to deliver a dominating performance. As the post on x by the MLB Pipeline stated, “4 strikeouts in 2 perfect innings for Pirates’ Paul Skenes in his ‘Indyindians debut’“, it was clear that he had stunned every baseball enthusiast with his five across three perfect innings against the Louisville Slugger Field.

The match lighted up when none of Paul Skenes’ heaters came in below 99.1 mph. He ran an average of 100.1 mph across 21 fastballs. Alongside, reached triple-digits a dozen times. In the third inning, he even touched 101.2 mph. Skenes put up 12 whiffs in just 46 pitches, with six coming on his four-seamer, three on his slider, two on his sinker, and one on his changeup. That comes down to 52 percent whiff rate, including 43 percent on his fastball alone. An elated Paul Skenes did not hold back after the show.

“That tells me that I’m using my pitches correctly more than anything, in terms of counts and setting up hitters and that kind of thing…I’m just super happy with the game plan that we had, how we called the game, attacking each hitter individually, and I think that set it up more than anything,” stated Skenes. Seems like, the couple is on a joint goal to take over their respective scenarios!

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