The No. 2 LSU gymnastics team will make its 33rd NCAA postseason appearance in the Lincoln Regional.
LSU will be the No. 1 seed in the regional, which will take place on Saturday April 1 at 4 p.m.
“Regionals is a big competition for everybody so just the regular preparation that we’ve been doing,” senior all-arounder Ashleigh Gnat said. “We don’t need to do anything more or anything less. I think we need to be ourselves and stay in the process of what we’ve been doing and it’s going to come together.”
The Tigers will be going head to head against No. 11 Boise State, No. 14 Nebraska, Arizona, Iowa State and Minnesota.
The top two teams from each regional will advance to the national semi-finals in St. Louis, Missouri.
After a challenging SEC Tournament, this regional may seem like a breeze, but the Tigers are not taking their position for granted.
“We want to do our best in Lincoln because it’s going to propel us forward into nationals,” Gnat said. “So we take it just as seriously no matter what. It’s another opportunity to get a great score and to build confidence going into nationals.”
The mix of veteran and newcomers has given the team the right amount of confidence and experience to perform well at regionals and nationals alike.
LSU coach D-D Breaux said this team’s heart is what separates it and gives it the opportunity to win.
“Everything they do, they do it for LSU,” Breaux said. “They do it for all the right reasons. They really have that old school kind of spirit. They walk the walk and talk the talk and they really like each other. There’s such a tremendous amount of respect up and down the lines.”

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LSU gymnastics team finds out that they will be attending NCAA regional in Lincoln, Nebraska on Monday, March 20, 2017, in the Gymnastics Practice Facility on campus.