2023 – 4th – National Finalist
2022 – 18th – Eliminated in Region Final
2021 – 6th – Eliminated in National Semifinal
2020 – 4th – COVID
2019 – 2nd – National Finalist
2018 – 4th – National Finalist
2017 – 2nd – National Finalist
2016 – 2nd – National Finalist
2015 – 10th – Eliminated in National Semifinal
2014 – 3rd – National Finalist

Team Total
1. 198.375 (March 6, 2015)
2. 198.325 (April 5, 2014)
3. 198.275 (April 14, 2017)
4. 198.175 (March 15, 2019)
4. 198.175 (February 18, 2018)

Team Vault — 49.825 (March 6, 2015)
Team Bars — 49.750 (March 17, 2018)
Team Beam — 49.725 (March 17, 2018; April 15, 2017; March 11, 2005)
Team Floor — 49.775 (February 5, 2022)

All-Around
1. Haleigh Bryant, 39.875 (March 10, 2023)
1. April Burkholder, 39.875 (March 21, 2003)
3. Rheagan Courville, 39.825 (February 6, 2015)
3. Ashleigh Clare-Kearney, 39.825 (April 12, 2008)
3. April Burkholder, 39.825 (March 11, 2005)

Individual Vault — 10.000
–Haleigh Bryant x8
–Aleah Finnegan
–Kiya Johnson
–Kennedi Edney
–Ashleigh Gnat x5
–Jessie Jordan
–Rheagan Courville x3
–Sarie Morrison
–Ashleigh Clare-Kearney x4
–April Burkholder x2
–Jennifer Wood x9

Individual Bars — 10.000
–Haleigh Bryant
–Sarah Finnegan x2
–Lexie Priessman
–Sharene Mamby
–Syreeta Barnett

Individual Beam — 10.000
–Aleah Finnegan
–Kiya Johnson x2
–Sarah Finnegan x2
–April Burkholder x2
–Terin Martinjak
–Amy McClosky

Individual Floor — 10.000
–Haleigh Bryant
–Aleah Finnegan x2
–Kiya Johnson x4
–Sarah Finnegan x2
–McKenna Kelley
–Kennedi Edney
–Myia Hambrick
–Ashleigh Gnat x4
–Lloimincia Hall x7
–Ashleigh Clare-Kearney
–April Burkholder x4
–Terin Martinjak
–Nicki Butler
–Nicki Arnstad x2
–Rachelle Fruge

LSU will consider 2023’s 4th-place finish a triumphant result given the sheer number of injuries and loss of expected routines that befell the team throughout the year. LSU spent the first two-thirds of the regular season ranked in the 8th-9th zone—and never higher than 6th—so to come through with postseason hits all the way to the championship and erase the memory of 2022’s regional final debacle was a big win.

LSU is losing a grand total of zero routines from last year’s team while bringing key gymnasts back from injury, as well as welcoming significant transfers and several top first-years. So, it’s formidable.

Kylie Coen won the all-around in the Junior F session of 2021 Dev Nationals but has barely competed since, provoking some questions about what she might be able to deliver at LSU. At the preseason 101, she showed reasonable contending options on beam and floor.

Amari Drayton reached the acme of her elite career with a trip to Olympic Trials in 2021, placing 13th. She is expected to make her way into LSU’s lineups on vault and floor right away and should be a solid choice for bars as well.

Jillian Hoffman is a 5th-year transfer from Utah whose early career was marked by injury but who made her way into the vault lineup in 2023 with a Yurchenko 1.5 that scored as high as 9.975. While she never featured much on floor for Utah, she does own a career high of 9.975 there as well.

Konnor McClain is Konnor McClain, 2022 US champion, and the only question about her college contribution was whether she had sufficiently recovered from WOGAback to be able to do gymnastics. Her routines from the 101, particularly on beam and floor, showed that expectations should be high for her college career.

Leah Miller started L10 in the 2020 season, and her best result came at AZ states in 2022, when she scored 9.675 on floor.

Savannah Schoenherr is a 6th-year transfer from Florida who missed last season with injury but spent the first three years of her college career as a regular in Florida’s vault and bars lineups with a career high of 9.975 on both apparatuses. She showed routines on all four events at LSU’s 101.

Kiya Johnson (5Y)

Amid all the Haleigh Bryant and Aleah Finnegan and Konnor’s A College Gymnast Now!, the sheer importance of Kiya Johnson to all of LSU’s lineups should not fall into the shadows.

Johnson looks like she’ll remain a lock on every event even with the increased depth this season and last year’s Achilles tear, and LSU’s chances to win this time around will hang most significantly on Johnson’s ability to return to her previous level on all events.

2023 Event Ranking: 3

With the depth added to this lineup, LSU should have designs on being at least a top-2 vault school in 2024 and will be able to pick and choose the most consistent Yurchenko 1.5s while setting others aside. LSU’s quest to create a Super Team is most apparent on this apparatus, where there will be 9.9-level vaults that don’t see any competition time this year because there’s just no room.

The most interesting dynamic will be whether absolute lineup locks of past seasons like Shchennikova and KJ Johnson still have a place, or whether they get smashed out by new gymnasts. Will the transfer Y1.5s from Schoenherr or Hoffman show the landing consistency to move ahead of Shchennikova in the hierarchy, or will being a proven entity on this team carry weight? KJ Johnson’s Yurchenko full is still among the three most impressive pieces of gymnastics on this vault roster. But how do you put up a full when you have 10-12 options for 10.0 starts?

As for what we know, Haleigh Bryant will retain her spot as the top vaulter on this team. Kiya Johnson’s DTY should be warmly welcomed back into the fold, and Aleah Finnegan’s Omelianchik has the argument of earning a 10.000 last February. Among the Yurchenko 1.5s, Chase Brock’s is the cleanest, so I’d give that the inside track to get into the lineup right now, but Amari Drayton has been impressing in preseason—and has the most distance of the bunch—which will also work in her favor. And then does McClain just elbow everyone else out of the way with a DTY?

2023 Event Ranking: 9

LSU is not as spoiled for choice on bars as on vault but should have the quality this season to upgrade and filter out a few of the more mid-9.8 options that had this event ranked 9th last time around.

Those new and restocked lineup routines should include Schoenherr, whose Jaeger amplitude and double front 1/2 dismount will move her toward the top of the pile. A healthy Kiya Johnson also likely returns to the leadoff position as her routine reassumes its ancestral role of getting a lower score than messier routines later in the lineup.

Haleigh Bryant has established herself as the top bars worker on the team and will be back, and while Aleah Finnegan doesn’t always gets the scores on bars—usually because of landing control on the double Arabian—her level of execution needs to be in this lineup. And a consistent Finnegan landing for 9.950s would be a big upgrade in itself to LSU’s bars for 2024.

Shchennikova almost surely comes back to the lineup because it’s Shchennikova, but she was outscored last season by Alexis Jeffrey, so watch that space, and will also have to contend with Konnor McClain and the Church she is retaining for her college routine, as well as the very viable option from Drayton, and athletes like Tatum, Cowan, and Dunne who have been in the lineup before.

2023 Event Ranking: 10

Last year’s injuries thwarted LSU the most on beam, where the team was typically forced to get through the event rather than excel on it. This season will see a massive increase in depth and should see key changes to the final six lineup members.

Key-est-est among those changes will be having Konnor McClain, who has always ranked best on beam and who should be a scoring leader here. LSU will also relish again having Kiya Johnson, who more often than not has been the team’s best beamer during her career. With Aleah Finnegan as the #1 returning score here (and front-runner to retain that #1 title), and Bryant as, you know, also great on this one, LSU has a very strong core of four beam routines around which to build this season.

The trick will be finding out who joins them. At LSU’s 101, we saw many believable possibilities featuring many switch 1/2s that probably go without deduction in most college contexts—but that really should see some combination of 0.05s for hip-alignment, soft knees, or flexed feet. A best-case LSU beam lineup won’t just see who’s hitting for 9.900 at home against Kentucky in January and go with that, but will instead cultivate those routines with the potential for the fewest built-in deductions (the committee nominates Annie Beard if the gainer full is there) to create the kind of lineup that won’t drop four tenths to Oklahoma come April.

2023 Event Ranking: 3

On floor, LSU has the least to mess with from last season—but also enough new options that they’ll be forced to mess with things from last season. Konnor McClain and Amari Drayton are showing the combination of double layout and real, actual leaps that high floor scores are made of, and they’re definitely going to push some people out of this lineup.

Haleigh Bryant, Aleah Finnegan, and Kiya Johnson should be immune to that pushing with seven career floor 10.0s among the trio, which already brings us up to five before factoring in that KJ Johnson is also legally required to be in this lineup. That six would exclude gymnasts like Shchennikova and Ballard (whom I’m sure we’ll see plenty of), and Brock was a weekly lineup member last season who certainly has the tumbling. But it will be tough to make it into the final group.