Livvy Dunne emotionally tears up during LSU gymnastics tribute video

The gymnastics career of Livvy Dunne is over. After spending five seasons in Baton Rouge with the LSU Tigers, Dunne saw the 2025 season end in Fort Worth in the NCAA gymnastics national semifinals. A bittersweet way to close the book but there is still plenty of celebrate.

Dunne produced a tribute video to the sport, going back to her younger days. She then began to get emotional when reacting to the final product. Plenty of highlights are included from childhood all the way to her success with LSU.

“Time flies when you’re having fun,” Dunner said in the video. “Something said when you’re enjoying yourself to the point where time seems to slip away from you. And that’s exactly how the past 20 years in this sport have felt. The highs, the lows. Making the USA National Team and competing for our country. Every risk was worth the reward. Finishing my career over the past five years at the best university in the world has been an incredible journey and I’m forever grateful.

“Gymnastics, you have filled my heart and will always be a part of me. You’ve shaped me into the person I am today, creating memories and sisterhoods that will last a lifetime beyond this sport. You were my first love.”

Dunne was not fully able to participate for LSU during their run at back-to-back national championships. There was an injury to deal with dating back to early March after missing a meet against Georgia.

“It’s about pain. It’s about her pain. It’s an unusual thing,” LSU head coach Jay Clark said on March 10. “I had to look it up. I didn’t even know what the retinaculum in your knee was. And generally speaking the little, she put it on social media, so it’s okay, I guess, for me to talk about it. But the little avulsion fracture that she has, she and I were talking about it yesterday, that generally happens to people who have been in a car accident or some sort of blunt force trauma that has… and she can’t recall anything like that.”

In nine total meets, Dunne competed in both the bars and floor events. At the NCAA Fayetteville Regional Second Round, a career best 9.900 was recorded on the floor. If nothing else, she walks away from gymnastics competing at an incredibly high level.

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