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Aleah Finnegan Season 2026

Position
All-Around
Height
5'4
Class
Senior
Hometown
Lee's Summit, Mo.
High School
Summit Christian Academy
Club
GAGE Gymnastics

2025 Honda Award Finalist
2025 AAI Award Finalist
2025 NCAA All-American (FX)
2025 NCAA Penn State Regional Beam Champion
2025 All-SEC (VT, BB, AA)
2025 SEC Beam Champion
2025 WCGA Regular Season All-American (VT, UB, BB, AA)
2025 Winter SEC Academic Honor Roll
2024 Paris Olympian (Team Philippine)
2024 NCAA Floor Champion
2024 WCGA All American (FX)
2024 WCGA Regular Season All-American (FX)
2023 WCGA All-American (UB, FX, AA)
2023 WCGA Regular Season All-American (BB, FX, AA)
2023 All-SEC (FX)

SENIOR SEASON (2025)
Competed in the all-around in 13 out of 15 meets for the Tigers … Finalist for both the 2025 Honda Sport and AAI Awards… Recorded season highs of 9.950’s on vault and bars, 10.00 on beam, 9.975 on floor and 39.725 in the all-around… Claimed 20 individual titles on the season, with four coming on vault, one on bars, six on beam, six on floor and three in the all-around… Finished her career with 43 titles, the 13th-most by a gymnast in LSU history… Earned one perfect score on the year, which came against Georgia on March 7, moving her career total to eight …  Helped lead the Tigers to their second-straight SEC Championship with her all around score of 39.675 in the meet… Won her first individual SEC Title on beam with her score of 9.925 at the conference championship meet in Birmingham … She also earned All-SEC Honors on vault, beam, and the all-around, making her a four-time All-SEC member… Finnegan became a two-time individual regional champion following her 9.950 on beam in the 2025 Penn State Regional Second Round to take home a share of the beam title… Marked back-to-back years that Finnegan won an individual regional title after she was named the regional floor champion in the 2024 Fayetteville Regional … Finished the season with averages of 9.883 on vault, 9.866 on bars, 9.883 on beam, 9.836 on floor, and 39.480 in the all around … Ranked nationally on multiple events, finishing the regular season ranked No. 10 on vault, No. 9 on beam, No. 14 on floor and No. 9 in the all-around … Claimed a total of five All-America honors in 2025, with four coming on vault, bars, beam and the all-around in the WCGA Regular Season All-America honors and one NCAA postseason honor on floor… With her five honors on the year, Finnegan finished her career with 13 All-America honors, which is tied for the eighth-most in LSU history… Named to SEC Academic Honor Roll… Completed her bachelor’s degree in May 2025.

JUNIOR SEASON (2024)

One of the top floor performers in the country all year long and an essential piece of the 2024 Tigers squad… Took home two All-America honors on the event in both the regular and postseason to make her an eight-time All-American, with four of those honors coming on floor… Also earned nine event titles throughout the year and three perfect scores on floor, moving her career total to five, the second most on floor in program history… Was crowned the 2024 NCAA Floor Champion after posting a score of 9.9625. The title was the first of her career and the fourth floor title in school history… Joined her sister, Sarah, in LSU history as the only sibling duo to own individual national championships… Her floor score in the NCAA Semifinals matched the highest recorded by an LSU Gymnast at championships… averaged a 9.868 on floor in 2024… Represented the Tigers in the 2024 Paris Olympics as she competed in the all-around of the qualifying rounds with Team Philippines.

SOPHOMORE SEASON (2023)
Competed in all but one meet for the Tigers… Recorded perfect scores on three events this year in four consecutive weeks… Earned her first perfect 10.00 on floor against No. 17 Georgia on February 3rd… In the squad’s competition against No. 5 Auburn, she earned a perfect score on her Omelianchik vault, a 9.875 on bars, a 9.950 on beam and a 9.975 on floor to notch a career high 39.800 in the all around… She continued her streak of perfection as she recorded a 10.00 on beam against No. 2 Florida… Posted her second career perfect score on floor and fourth in her career in the Tiger’s meet against No. 9 Alabama… Her four consecutive perfect scores marked the longest streak by an LSU gymnast… She now owns four career perfect 10’s with two on floor, one on vault and one on beam… Recorded a career high 9.925 on bars against the top-ranked Sooners on January 16th… She matched her bars career high against West Virginia and in the NCAA Championship Semifinals… Ranked as one of the top 10 floor performers in the country for five consecutive weeks … Earned her first career All-SEC Honors on floor after finishing in the top two at the SEC Championships on floor with her score of 9.950… Named a WCGA Regular Season All-American on beam, floor and the all-around… In her NCAA Championships debut, she recorded a floor score of 9.9625 in the semifinals to tie the highest score on the event by an LSU gymnast at the championships… Placed first on floor, third on bars and third in the all-around in the first session of the NCAA Championship Semifinals to earn All-America honors and move her career total to six for the year… Finished the season with averages of 9.856 on vault, 9.818 on bars, 9.856 on beam, 9.823 on floor and 39.353 in the all-around.

FRESHMAN SEASON (2022)
Made her college debut against Georgia on January 28 scoring a 9.875 on beam… Set career highs of 9.850 on bars, 9.925 on beam, and 9.925 on floor… Earned her career high of 9.925 on beam twice at the TWU quad meet and at the SEC Championships in the season… Competed once in the bars lineup at Missouri with Arkansas, where she scored a 9.850… Tallied her career high 9.925 on floor in the Tigers victory over No. 4 Utah… Recorded three 9.90 routines on floor against No. 4 Florida, No. 8 Alabama, and at the TWU quad meet.

FINNEGAN’S CAREER HIGHS
Vault: 10.000 (2/10/23 at No. 5 Auburn)
Bars: 9.950 (Twice; First: 3/14/25 at Auburn; Last: 3/22/25 at SEC Championships)
Beam: 10.00 (Twice; First: 2/17/23 vs. No. 2 Florida; Last: 3/7/25 vs. Georgia)
Floor: 10.00 (Five times; First: 2/3/23 vs. No. 17 Georgia; Last: 4/4/24 at Fayetteville Regional)
All-Around: 39.800 (2/10/23 at No. 5 Auburn)

FINNEGAN’S CAREER INDIVIDUAL TITLES
Vault: 6
Bars: 1
Beam: 13
Floor: 17
All-Around: 6
Total: 43

FINNEGAN’S CAREER PERFECT 10’S
Vault: 1
Bars: 0
Beam: 2
Floor: 5
Total: 8

FINNEGAN’S ALL-AMERICA HONORS
Vault: 1
Bars: 2
Beam: 2
Floor: 5
All-Around: 3
Total: 13

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