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Watch This Fierce Video of Olivia Dunne’s Gymnastics Floor Routine

The 2024 SI Swimsuit rookie was honored with the Coaches Award at LSU.

Ananya Panchal

Olivia Dunne
Olivia Dunne / Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports

Olivia Dunne is just over a week away from commencement and really soaking in her final moments as an LSU Tiger. The gymnast, who is the highest-paid female college athlete in the country, just made program history with her team as they won the university’s first NCAA women’s gymanstics championship last month.

The 21-year-old, who is dating pro baseball player Paul Skenes, was honored with the Coaches Award for her punctuality and dedication to the sport this season. On Monday, May 6, the team’s official Instagram account shared a stunning, fierce pic of the New Jersey native wearing her signature sleeveless sparkly purple-and-black leotard.

The 2024 SI Swimsuit rookie, who traveled to Puerto Rico for last year’s feature and Portugal for her most recent photo shoot, rocked a full face of competition glam and her blonde locks were tossed up with some fun ribbon accessories.

“The ultimate team player,” read the caption. “@livvydunne received the first annual Coaches Award for always being prepared at any moment and delivering when her team needed it!”

The carousel also featured a super impressive video montage of clips from Dunne’s fabulous, skilled floor routine this year. She showed off her flexibility, muscles and happy attitude, smiling with each move and beaming with joy when she stuck each of her landings. The clip was set to an upbeat and dramatic audio, and was also shared on X (formerly Twitter).

The social media sensation, who has racked up a following of 5.1 million on Instagram and 8 million onTikTok, recently announced a new NIL contract. She has partnered with Passes, a platform that allows creators to monetize their content through subscriptions and livestreams.

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Ananya Panchal
ANANYA PANCHAL

Ananya Panchal is a writer on the Lifestyle and Trending News team for SI Swimsuit, where she covers fashion, beauty, pop culture and the internet’s favorite personalities and trends. She joined the brand in 2022 after roles at Bustle, the San Francisco Chronicle and the TODAY Show. Panchal loves to write about fashion in all its forms—from standout runway moments and evolving street style to the best accessories to elevate each season’s wardrobe (she rarely goes anywhere without a stack of jewelry and a coffee in hand). A self-proclaimed beauty fanatic, she’s always on the hunt for must-have products and loves breaking down viral trends. Her favorite series at the moment is spotlighting female founders and the stories behind the brands they’ve built—especially those shaping the future of fashion, wellness and tech. She is based between New York City and San Francisco and, when she’s not writing, can be found rewatching One Tree Hill, playing sudoku, trying new restaurants or ranking her favorite Disney Channel Original Movies. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and journalism with a minor in criminal justice from Boston University.

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