The LSU gymnastics team nearly won its second national championship in three years on Saturday, but Oklahoma performed extremely well on the floor to edge the Tigers by percentage points on Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas. Coach Jay Clark says it was a heck of an effort by his team.
“I don’t know that I’ve been prouder of a team, because they’re gutsy. They fought and fought and fought through injury and all sorts of adversity, some of which was known and some was not,” Clark said.
It was the Tigers’ fourth runner-up finish in program history, while Oklahoma won its eighth national championship. Clark says Oklahoma is the gold standard, but LSU is not going away.
“We’re not going anywhere. We’ve got a great group coming back, and we fully expect to be right back in the mix and take another swing at this thing next year,” Clark said.
It was a historic season for Kailin Chio, who earned 13 perfect 10s, including one on the vault on Saturday. Chio will return next season, along with 85% of their scoring from this year’s squad.
“You know, we always talk about the depth. A lot of our depth isn’t going anywhere, so that’s really great to know. And people who are incoming, I’m just excited for them to come in and join this team and continue building what we left from this year,” Chio said.
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