Gymnastics No. 1 wins the 15th regional NCAA championship, is advancing in the third NCAA – LSU – LSU championship

State College, PA – The LSU 1 gymnastics team classified at the national level and the seeded won the Penn State Regional 2025 after finishing in addition to the regional final on Saturday with their 198,050 score inside REC Hall. The LSU score on the day has marked the first time in the history of the program that the Tigers marked on an 198 in the two regional towers.

The Tigers won their 15th regional champion title in the history of the program on Saturday. With the victory, the program won its 34th appearance in the NCAA championship in the general classification and their third consecutive appearance in the NCAA championships.

“There is no complaint after marking a 198. It was difficult to get out of this thing, and we did what we had to do to win and advance,” said head coach Jay Clark. “We told them to focus on the basic tubes, and that’s what they did. We understand that we have to be better to win a championship, but that’s not what needs this evening.”

LSU n ° 1 (198,050) beat N ° 8 of Michigan State (198.00), Kentucky n ° 9 (197.625) and No. 16 Arkansas (197.325) in the final on Saturday to finish in the first two and qualify for the NCAA semi-finals.

The second place of MSU in the evening was its best regional finish in the current regional format introduced in 2019. Spartans will only make their second appearance in the history of the program at the NCAA and first championships since 1988.

Two tigers won individual titles in the evening – Aleah Finnegan Senior won the title on the floor with its 9.975 and won a part of the beam title with its 9.950. The recruit of the year in title of the dry, Kailin Chio, also claimed a part of the title of the beam with a 9,950 of his own.

Their two night scores landed the third in LSU records for the highest individual event scores in a region.

LSU opened the competition on bars, where Lexi Zeiss recruit equaled its career summit on the event with a 9.925 in first place. Junior Ashley Cowan scored a 9.875 in the follow -up spot before a 9,900 of the first year Kailin Chio in the third place. Spot Four saw a Senior Aleah Finnegan score at 9,850, followed by another 9,850 score from the second year Konnor McClain student in fifth place. Haleigh Bryant Senior anchored the rotation with a 9,900, taking the team scoring during the opening event at 49,450.

LSU narrowly led the competition after the first rotation, holding a narrow advance on the state of Michigan (49,425) and Arkansas (49,400).

The second rotation saw the tigers on the beam. The graduate student Sierra Ballard set the tone for a strong rotation with a 9.90 in the head point. The second year student Kylie Coen reached a career summit of 9.925 in the second place, followed by Chio corresponding to his career summit with a 9.950 in place three. Fourth place saw MCCLA reaching a 9.925 before 9.925 from Bryant to fifth place. The anchor point saw Finnegan scoring 9,950, which scored the team in the beam to a 49,675 stellar.

The 49,675 is an increasingly in a beam for the LSU in a regional NCAA region, beating the previous 49,600 summit marked in the 2014 REGIONAL red stick. The lowest score dropped in the rotation was 9,900 because the six tigers in the range displayed 9.9+ scores.

Halfway, LSU held the head with a score of 99.125, with Michigan State (99,075) holding second place on Arkansas (98,900) and Kentucky (98,700).

Rotation three took the tigers to the ground, where Coen marked a 9,850 at the opening point. Ballard obtained a 9,900 in the second place before an alignment back to the board for McClain, which marked 9,900 in his routine on the first floor of the 2025 season. Second year Amari Drayton added a 9.925 in fourth place before Finnegan made an almost flawless routine on its way to a 9.975. Bryant anchored the event with a 9.875, bringing the total of the event to 49.575.

The 49.575 was the second highest floor score of the 2025 season for Tigers, and the highest fourth score on the ground in a regional NCAA region in the history of the program. Before the final rotation of the night, LSU 148,700, followed by Michigan State (148,650), Kentucky (148,225) and Arkansas (148,125).

The final rotation saw LSU on Vault, where senior Kj Johnson scored a 9,900 in first place. Zeiss scored a 9.825 in the second place before Finnegan added 9.825 of his own place in third place. Drayton scored a 9,900 in fourth place, followed by a 9,750 chio. The competition was classified by Bryant, who marked a 9,900 to end the day and bring the team’s rotation score to a 49,350. This score was sufficient to bring the overall score to a 198,050 and win the regional title for tigers, in a narrowly 198,000 ahead of the Michigan State.

LSU 198,050 score on Saturday marked the sixth consecutive competition that Tigers have marked 198,000 or more, which is the longest sequence in the history of the program and the second longest sequence in NCAA history.

Finnegan won two other event titles in the evening, spending his total career to 43, with 17 of those who came to the ground, 13 on beam, six on Vault, one on the bars and six driving. His 17 career floor titles are the sixth in the history of the LSU.

Chio added one more to his CV, now with 23 titles in his young career.

LSU and Michigan State were the first two teams to qualify for the NCAA championships with the UCLA and UTAH in the Salt Lake City region. There are still two regional finals which take place on Sunday, April 6 to determine the last four teams that will compose the elite eight.

The remaining teams that fight for their place at the national championships are Oklahoma, Missouri, Auburn and Arizona in the regional final of Seattle and Florida, Auburn, Alabama and Cal in the regional final of Tuscaloosa.

The eight best teams will participate in two sessions from the semi-finals of the NCAA championship on Thursday, April 27 at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. The two best teams from each session of the semi-final will pass in the Final Four and will compete for the national title.

The two semi-finals of April 17 will be broadcast on ESPN2, and the national championship on Saturday April 19 will be broadcast live at 3 p.m. CT on ABC.

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