The LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne spent her offseason attending her boyfriend, Paul Skene's MLB games, and also going on vacation with her family members. She enjoyed the 2024 Paris Olympics and also promoted the release of LSU's docu-series called "The Money Game."
But it seems like the offseason has come to an end for Dunne, who shared a fun collage of herself practicing at the gym along with a gymnastics teammate. She wore a black leotard and happily smiled for the camera for the picture.
Dunne and the LSU Lady Tigers won the 2024 NCAA championship title last year, the first gymnastics title in the school's history. She featured in nine meets and competed in the bars and floor events. She averaged 9.857 on floor exercises and 9.383 on bar events last season.
Olivia Dunne shared details about difficult gymnastics training
Olivia Dunne appeared on LSU Tigers' hooper, Flau'jae Johnson's "Best of Both Worlds with Flau'jae" podcast last week. In the episode, she talks about how difficult it is to train for gymnastics and that it is a highly demanding sport that requires great strength.
"I think all sports have like different levels of like how hard you need to train for your sport but gymnastics is obviously your own body weight and your job is to make it look easy," she said. "Like if you're not making it look easy then you're not doing it right." (13:03)
"For the fifth year back, we have this conditioning test and it's eight exercises and it's like kind of what we did in Elite Gymnastics, which is very hard...if you fail any exercise you can't train until you can pass. So that you're in your best physical shape and so you don't get hurt. But it's just hard like coming back from such a crazy summer and then having to do these things. It's such a rude awakening."
Olivia Dunne has decided to return for the fifth and final season of her collegiate career. She is the second-highest NIL earner in the world of college sports and the first among women college athletes, as per On3 Sports.
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