Olivia Dunne aces her floor exercise and LSU Gymnastics wins with the highest score in program history – Watch!

Olivia Dunne aces her floor exercise and LSU Gymnastics wins with the highest score in program history – Watch!

The senior performed well on both her floor exercise and parallel bars, helping her team set a program record for total score



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Olivia Dunne is not joking in her final season as a student-athlete at Louisiana State University.

Dunne and the No. 5-ranked LSU gymnastics team earned a big win over No. 7 Arkansas on Friday with a score of 198.475 to Arkansas’ 196.200. That total is the highest in the history of the LSU program, the team announced on its website. It’s also the highest score any team has earned in the country so far this season.

In addition, the gymnast’s score ranks 14th among the best scores in NCAA history.

Dunne, on the other hand, performed well in both events, scoring 9.875 for her impressive floor exercise, the third-best score on her team, and 9.775 on parallel bars.

The team’s head coach, Jay Clark, said their focus and “main goal was to put in a good performance, a complete performance,” and that the record was just the icing on the cake.

“I know everyone wants to talk about the result tonight and that’s great. I’m not focused on whether we score low or high. It’s about our performance. We did our job tonight and we can do the same performance somewhere else,” he said, according to the school’s website. “For us, it’s about keeping our eyes on the next step in front of us and taking it one step at a time.”

Dunne, 21, posted three photos of the gathering on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday and wrote: “Doing what I love with the people I love!💜.”

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Before starting her senior year at LSU, Dunne told PEOPLE she was grateful for her time at the school and was still learning to deal with her online fame.

“Last year was probably one of the most rewarding and difficult years of my life,” she said. “Having so many eyes on me was a whole new feeling, but also pretty cool at the same time.”

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At the start of her fourth season, she admitted: “This year I have it under control the most.”

“Over the last few years, since I’ve been juggling NIL, or since my sophomore year of college, since the summer of 2021, I’ve definitely struggled to find balance,” she continued. “It’s really important because when you don’t have balance, it can affect your mental health. I finally feel like I’ve got a handle on it this year. It’s just really important to mentally organize things into my daily routine.”



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She also has her eye on a very special prize.

She really wants to “win the national championship,” she told PEOPLE in October.

“This has never happened at LSU before. This is completely new territory for LSU gymnasts,” she said. “I’m so excited to give it one last go and hope it’s my best yet.”

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