When: Friday, Jan. 3, 2025 – 6:30 p.m. Switching Sides to LSU: Where: Pete Maravich Assembly Center (13,215) – Baton Rouge, La. LSU enters 2025 coming off of the program’s first-ever national championship. The Tigers went unbeaten at home last year and had three consecutive sellout crowds. From the Notes: Storylines: Leading Off: Voted 32nd […]
When: Friday, Jan. 3, 2025 – 6:30 p.m.
Switching Sides to LSU:
Where: Pete Maravich Assembly Center (13,215) – Baton Rouge, La.
LSU enters 2025 coming off of the program’s first-ever national championship. The Tigers went unbeaten at home last year and had three consecutive sellout crowds.
From the Notes:
Storylines:
Leading Off: Voted 32nd in the WCGA Preseason Poll, Iowa State will kick off the 2025 season this Friday, as it travels to Baton Rouge to take on the defending national champion LSU Tigers.
- The Cyclones return 10 gymnasts from last year’s roster, including standouts Noelle Adams and Josie Bergstrom-Te Slaa. Both Adams and Bergstrom-Te Slaa were named to the Big 12 Preseason Gymnastics team.
- Iowa State returns 10 gymnasts from last year’s squad that made the largest improvement in the country.
- ISU will add in four freshmen and one transfer for a team of 15.
- ISU has five seniors on its 2025 roster: Josie Bergstrom-Te Slaa, Hannah Loyim, Emma Ricks, Lauren Thomas and Rachel Wilke.
- 2025 will mark the first year that Iowa State competes in a conference schedule, as the additions of Arizona, Arizona State and Utah put the conference at seven teams.
Iowa State will look to carry last year’s momentum under then-first year head coach Ashley Miles Greig into 2025. Miles Greig helped guide the Cyclones to a 15-spot jump in the Road to Nationals rankings last season, taking the team back to the postseason after missing out in 2023.
- This marks the third-straight year that the Cyclones will face off with the defending national champions on the road. ISU competed against OU in Norman in each of the last two seasons.
- Iowa State’s 10 victories this season are tied for the most since it won 20 in 2018.
- Sophomore Noelle Adams claimed 14 event titles last year in her freshman campaign. Those 14 titles were the third-most in program history by a first-year gymnast.
- As a team, ISU claimed 17 event titles last season.
Who: No. 32 Iowa State (0-0, 0-0 Big 12) at No. 2 LSU (0-0, 0-0 SEC)
- Head Jay Clark is entering his sixth season as the head coach of the LSU program.
- In his nine-year head coaching career, Clark is 116-44-2.
- He is 67-16 during his time at LSU.
- The Tigers were voted the second-ranked team in the WCGA preseason poll, one spot behind SEC newcomer and former Big 12 school Oklahoma.
- It is the 13th straight year that the Tigers will open the season ranked in the top-10 and the 28th year in the top-25.
- LSU was one of five teams nationally to receive first place votes.
