LSU Police are looking for whoever stole approximately 40 championship rings from legendary gymnastics coach D-D Breaux’s on campus office. Breaux retired as coach in 2020 and still works for the university in an ambassador role. She says she normally keeps her door locked when she leaves for the day; but one day earlier this month, she didn’t. She says she first realized that something was amiss when a news article she kept on top of the case of rings was moved.
“I cut out a news article that had Jordan Chiles’ picture on it and a story about her trying to reclaim that (2024 Olympic Bronze) medal. And it fit right on top of this case!” Breaux said.
Breaux says whoever stole the rings was apparently only after the rings and nothing else.
“I had a box of coins, like a little LSU wooden box of coins on my desk, the money that I had found over the 43 years I worked at LSU. It was half-full of pennies and nickels and dimes, but they didn’t take that. They just took my rings,” Breaux said.
Breaux says the rings that were stolen dated as far back as the 1980s and were for individual events. She says she still has the team championship rings she won.
“This was all my individuals. The Susan Jacksons, the Rheagan Courville, Lloimincia Hall, all the SEC and all the National Championship Individual rings were in that case,” Breaux explained.
The value of each ring stolen is believed to be more than three-thousand dollars. So far, university police have no suspects. Breaux is praying the rings turn up in a pawn shop somewhere so that the rings can possibly be returned.
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