Alyssa Leal Season 2025

Alyssa Leal enters her third season as the full-time Assistant Communications Director for gymnastics and soccer.

This is her sixth year working for the Athletic Communications department. In August 2021, she earned a graduate assistantship after serving as a student intern from August 2019 to July 2021.

Leal’s social media strategy put LSU Gymnastics on everyone’s timeline following their 2023 National Championship and 2022 Final Four appearance. She has also assisted in the production of “The Climb,” a Sun Coast Emmy Award winning docuseries, following the LSU Gymnastics team throughout the season.

In her role as a graduate assistant, Leal managed social media accounts for various teams, assisted with all media relations, and oversaw the communications student staff.

For three seasons (2019-2022), Leal served as the secondary contact for the Women’s Basketball team and managed all social media accounts for the team. Her duties include social media strategy, content creation, and assist with all media relations. In her time working with the team, she has managed the accounts for two SEC Tournament appearances and one regional appearance. Leal played a key role in all media relation and social media efforts for the 2022 regional hosted in Baton Rouge.

Leal also worked closely with the softball, football, and gymnastics teams during her time as a student.

She helped lead social media efforts for softball during their Regional and Super Regional appearances in 2021. In 2022, Leal was the acting SID for the gymnastics teams regional appearance in Raleigh.

Leal worked on football for four years during her time as a student in the Athletics Communications office, where she helped manage social media accounts, press conferences, interviews, and game day press box operations.

The New Orleans native graduated from LSU with her bachelor’s degree in public relations with a minor in business in May 2021.