The thrilling national championships was far from the only jaw-dropping moment of 2024, as this gymnastics season provided endless highlights and lowlights. Let’s reminisce on a handful of the best moments and a few we hope to forget once the chalk has finally settled.
Highs
New National Champions
Three years after getting just the seventh national champion in the 40-plus year history of NCAA women’s gymnastics, we now have our eighth, as LSU took home the title to conclude its historic season. The Tigers were once known as “the best program to have never won a championship,” having finished as runner-up in 2016, 2017, and 2019, and are now free of that moniker as their title followed a 2024 campaign that included an SEC title and new program high score of 198.475. NCAA all-around champion Haleigh Bryant, who recently announced she’ll return for a fifth season, was the leader of the team that propelled Jay Clark to his first title as head coach after winning five in a row (plus two others) as an assistant at Georgia.
Record-Breaking Regular Season
The biggest story coming out of the NCAA semifinals was Oklahoma taking itself out of contention in the opening rotation, as it followed a regular season for the history books. The Sooners’ resume was unblemished…
