LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne, some of the adopted collegiate athletes on social media, opened up about her targets and ambitions on Monday in an interview with Instagram.
Dunne and the Tigers are making ready for the NCAA Gymnastics Championships later this week. She talked about desirous to see change in girls’s sports activities.
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LSU Tigers gymnast Olivia Dunne throughout a meet towards the West Virginia Mountaineers on March 10, 2023, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (John Korduner/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Pictures)
“The change I need to be and work towards is equality for ladies in all sports activities. I like workforce competitors versus particular person, as a result of I get pleasure from competing with a gaggle of unbelievable girls,” Dunne mentioned.
Dunne may need some of the hectic schedules of any collegiate athlete. She has a number of identify, picture and likeness (NIL) offers, 7.4 million followers on TikTok and a further 3.9 million on Instagram, together with balancing being a collegiate athlete and schoolwork.
LSU Tigers gymnast Olivia Dunne on March 10, 2023, on the Pete Maravich Meeting Middle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (John Korduner/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Pictures)
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“When it comes to balancing faculty, social media and gymnastics, I take it one factor at a time,” she mentioned. “I get up, go to highschool, go to follow after which, social media after. That’s the way it goes each single day. It’s all essential to me, however it’s referred to as a scholar athlete for a motive – being a scholar earlier than an athlete.”
Dunne added she actually needs “to spark confidence and present that you could have all of it.”
LSU will compete in Session I of the NCAA Semifinals. LSU’s opponents embrace Florida, Denver and Cal. It’s the thirty second look within the NCAA Championships for the Tigers.
“The change I need to be and work towards is equality for ladies in all sports activities,” Olivia Dunne mentioned. (John Korduner/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Pictures)
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The highest two groups from every semifinal will advance to the championship. Oklahoma, Utah, UCLA and Kentucky are within the different semifinal.
