LSU Gymnastics: National Champs at Last!

The dream is real.

After decades of waiting, hoping, praying that we could see this moment, it’s real, D-D’s baby is finally a champion. LSU clobbered its way to a national title Saturday with a 198.2250 to beat Cal, Utah and Florida and earn their spot as the eighth program with an NCAA women’s gymnastics championship. This won’t be a typical breakdown of the meet itself, that’ll come in due time. I’m going to use this as a chance to let out how I feel and why it meant so much to me to the point where I learned what tears of joy feel like.

For those of you who read this, you get why that moment meant so much. It was the culmination of years of torturous closeness feeling like the…