LSU’s Livvy Dunne says goodbye to gymnastics after failed NCAA championship run: ‘It’s been real’

LSU gymnast and societal media prima Olivia "Livvy" Dunne announced the extremity of her gymnastics vocation successful a societal media station Thursday aft the Tigers failed to successfully support their NCAA title title. 

The fifth-year elder shared a station connected societal media aft LSU finished 3rd successful the NCAA semfinals astatine Dickies Arena successful Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday. 

LSU Tigers gymnast Olivia Dunne kisses the title trophy aft the Tigers won the nationalist title successful 2024 astatine Dickies Arena.  (Jerome Miron/USA Today Sports)

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"[Peace] retired gymnastics it’s been real… and of people everlastingly LSU," she said successful a station connected X. 

Dunne, 22, did not vie this week aft revealing successful an Instagram station past period that she had been sidelined with an "avulsion fracture of my patella." 

"It perfectly breaks my bosom not to get the accidental to vie successful the (Pete Maravich Assembly Center) 1 past time," Dunne wrote astatine the time. 

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Olivia Dunne of the LSU Tigers earlier a conscionable against the Florida Gators astatine the Stephen C. O'Connell Center Feb. 23, 2024, successful Gainesville, Fla.  (James Gilbert/Getty Images)

The New Jersey autochthonal was injured aft returning for her 5th twelvemonth astatine LSU. She had an other twelvemonth of eligibility owed to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Dunne, who is dating Pittsburgh Pirates pitching sensation Paul Skenes, was 1 of the NCAA's apical NIL earners and boasted millions of followers crossed respective societal media platforms. She played a relation successful helping LSU triumph its archetypal NCAA rubric past year.

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LSU's Olivia Dunne poses for a photograph holding the trophy aft the team's triumph successful the NCAA women's gymnastics championships successful Fort Worth, Texas, April 20, 2024.  (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

While LSU failed to support its rubric arsenic a No. 1 seed, Utah clinched its 5th consecutive Final Four quality astatine the NCAA women’s gymnastics championship. It joins UCLA, Oklahoma and Missouri. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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