Tiger followers, get excited – fall sports activities are again.
From new teaching additions to large switch portal pickups, every fall sport is coming with slightly little bit of a special look this yr. No roster appears to be like the similar because it did a yr in the past, however the purpose for each program stays the similar: compete exhausting and win massive.
Feeling out of the loop with the happenings of LSU’s fall sports activities? Here’s the whole lot you would possibly’ve missed after a busy offseason:
Football
Fall camp is over, which implies LSU soccer’s season has formally begun. This yr’s squad consists of 64 returners, 18 transfers and 28 true freshmen.
After shedding seven gamers to the 2025 NFL Draft, LSU revamped each side of the ball with the No. 1 switch portal class and a top-10 recruiting class.
Redshirt junior Aaron Anderson is the solely returning top-five receiver, however missed a few of fall camp with a knee damage. Transfers Barion Brown (Kentucky) and Nic Anderson (Oklahoma) be a part of him in beginning competition. Head coach Brian Kelly mentioned the receiver room is the deepest he’s ever had.
Offensive sort out Will Campbell is an enormous loss and tight finish Mason Taylor additionally left massive sneakers to fill. Other drafted Tigers embrace Emery Jones, Sai’vion Jones, Bradyn Swinson, Miles Frazier and Garrett Dellinger.
Fifth-year senior switch Bauer Sharp (Oklahoma) and sophomore Trey’Dez Green have been battling for the tight finish place. Braelin Moore joined the Tigers this yr after two with Virginia Tech, already rising as a star heart for LSU. Just a few freshmen have additionally stood out, together with DJ Chester, who’s engaged on transitioning to left sort out.
Still, LSU returns so much. Fifth-year quarterback Garrett Nussmeier was awarded the No. 18 jersey – the first quarterback since Matt Mauck – for his show of management this offseason. Junior Whit Weeks and redshirt junior Harold Perkins additionally return contemporary off of accidents that occurred final season. Perkins will sport the No. 7 jersey for his dynamic playmaking talents.
The three are preseason AP All-American honorees and might be the vocal leaders for LSU this season.
Men’s basketball
LSU males’s basketball outsourced closely this summer time after one other early finish to its postseason, including seven from the portal.
After key forwards hit the portal in the spring, LSU was in want of scoring expertise. Junior Mike Nwoko (Mississippi State) and fifth-year senior Marquel Sutton (Omaha) add nice peak to the staff with each standing at practically seven-feet tall. Two four-star guards had been additionally added to the roster: junior Rashad King and sophomore Dedan Thomas.
The Tigers have 4 incoming freshmen, all of that are four-star recruits. In whole, LSU ranks No. 16 in transfers and has the No. 23 recruiting class.
In April, head coach Matt McMahon appointed a new assistant coach, Yasir Rosemond out of Indiana. Not even a month after signing his contract, Rosemond left on a suggestion from Oregon.
Despite the loss, McMahon introduced in a new normal supervisor in former participant and NBA government Ronald Dupree and a new director of scouting in Jack Frost. Former SEC Player of the Year Marcus Thornton additionally joins the help workers, serving to gamers develop by mentoring them off the courtroom.
Women’s basketball
LSU girls’s basketball goes to have a new look this yr, with solely 5 gamers from the 2024-25 squad returning to the roster this season.
Senior guard Flau’jae Johnson highlights the returners, coming off first staff All-SEC and AP third staff All-America honors. Another first staff All-SEC honoree returns in junior guard Mikaylah Williams, who began all 37 video games. Senior guard Kailyn Gilbert additionally appeared in each sport, taking part in an enormous function in the Elite Eight run throughout her first yr with the Tigers.
LSU additionally returns sophomore guard Jada Richard and senior guard Izzy Besselman.
Former staff captain and 2023 nationwide champion Emily Ward additionally returns for the Tigers, however in a new function. After some temporary time away from the program, Ward is now on workers as the director of ladies’s basketball operations.
To fill the holes in LSU’s roster, head coach Kim Mulkey hit the switch portal and introduced in some massive names. Among the three transfers are senior ahead Amiya Joyner (East Carolina), sophomore ahead Kate Koval (Notre Dame) and junior guard MiLaysia Fulwiley (South Carolina).
Along with the transfers, Mulkey and the recruiting workers have introduced in the No. 1 ranked freshman class. The Tigers add four five-stars in Grace Knox, Bella Hines, Divine Bourrage and ZaKiyah Johnson, along with four-star Meghan Yarnevich.
LSU girls’s hoops could have misplaced a lot of final yr’s roster, nevertheless it shortly reloaded with simple expertise. That together with veteran chief Johnson and star switch Fulwiley, the Tigers will probably choose up the place they left off.
Volleyball
Head coach Tonya Johnson enters her fourth season with the Tigers and returns most of final yr’s beginning lineup. She additionally hit the switch portal for some depth.
Junior and sophomore center blockers Angelina Lee and Jessica Jones look to proceed their defensive contributions this season. On the pins, LSU returns senior Ana Tevdoradze, sophomore Lainee Pyles and redshirt freshman Bri Watson, who’s coming off a foot damage.
Junior Ella Hemmings and sophomores Aly Kirkhoff, Remi Nuss and Sophie Bonnaffee all return to battle for a spot in the again row.
The biggest get for the Tigers is AVCA All-America honorable point out junior exterior hitter Nia Washington. Washington joins LSU after a primary staff All-SEC efficiency final season with Ole Miss.
Washington will complement junior exterior hitter Jurnee Robinson, who spent her summer time with the U23 National Team. Robinson brought home gold after serving to the U.S. go undefeated in the NORCECA Pan American Cup.
LSU added transfers in redshirt junior reverse hitter Tireh Smith (South Carolina), sophomore libero Emilee Prochaska (Houston softball) and junior setter Lauren Brooker (UC San Diego).
To cap off LSU’s roster, Johnson recruited 4 freshmen in Laurel Cassidy, Camryn Jeffery, Sanaa Donaie and Takyla Brown.
The largest query mark for LSU is the setter place after graduating Bailey Ortega, so this place battle might be one thing to observe as the season strikes alongside.
Soccer
LSU soccer’s season kicked off in early August with two exhibition matches earlier than the common season started with a shutout victory at dwelling in opposition to South Alabama.
The Tigers then misplaced on the street to nationwide runner up Wake Forest, however solely let up one purpose. They rebounded in the program’s first-ever matchup with Florida Gulf Coast, taking a commanding 6-1 win to mark head coach Sian Hudson’s a centesimal win by way of 5 seasons.
LSU returns some from final yr, together with pictures chief junior Ava Galligan. Last season’s purpose chief Ida Hermannsdottir additionally returns, in addition to senior goalkeeper Sophine Kevorkian, who had a stellar postseason efficiency final yr.
Midfielder Makena Dominguez is LSU soccer’s largest portal win. The graduate pupil was on the championship-winning UNC staff in 2024. Fellow graduate pupil Morgan Witz is one other addition, transferring from California Baptist.
Aside from the portal, Hudson additionally seemed internationally. The Tigers welcome Catalan nationwide staff members Gadea Blanco Gonzáles and Sol Taboada Martínez, Spanish youth nationwide staff member Daniela Hellin, Maud Ferriére from France and Mireia Sánchez from Spain.
This season, seven gamers had been named to 2025 SEC Preseason Watchlist: Gabbi Ceballos, Sydney Cheesman, Jazmin Ferguson, Amy Smith, Dominguez, Galligan and Hermannsdottir.
Some strikes have been made throughout just a few different sports activities apart from the 5 aforementioned.
The tennis applications welcomed a trio of assistant coaches, with Ashe Ray becoming a member of the girls’s staff and Reece Coleman and Thomas Brown becoming a member of the males’s staff.
Dalton Stanley was additionally welcomed to LSU Athletics as head cheerleading coach and spirit squad coordinator.