It was a day of celebration in Bayou as the Louisiana State University women’s gymnastics team celebrated their first national championship this past week with a parade and rally.

Among the newly crowned champions is LSU junior, Filipino-American gymnast Aleah Finnegan.

During the victory rally, she took to the stage to speak about how she was feeling before her championship-clinching beam performance.

Aside from team gold, she also nabbed the individual national championship in the floor exercises.

"I think I was most excited when I looked at my team before I went and they had all the trust and all the confidence in the world in me," Finnegan recalled. "I was the best thing that I can bring out to that routine."

The 21-year-old is no stranger to winning. She previously represented the Philippines in the 2021 Southeast Asian Games and brought home two gold medals for the country.

Finnegan also snagged gold as part of Team USA in the 2019 Pan American Games.

While her performances helped bring the first national championship to LSU, she is hoping that 2024 can bring an Olympic medal for the Philippines.

In October, Finnegan qualified for the Olympics after finishing in the Top 14 of the women's all-around qualification at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Belgium.

She will be joined in Paris this summer by fellow Fil-Am gymnast Levi Jung Ruivivar, a Stanford-bound high school senior, and 2020 Olympian Carlos Yulo.