The 2024 gymnastics season preview was featured in an earlier issue of IPTAY's Orange: The Experience magazine.On June 17, 2021, Clemson Athletics announced the launch of the Tigers’ gymnastics program. Less than a year later, Clemson Director of Athletics Graham Neff announced Amy Smith, a UCLA graduate, as the program’s first head coach, and the Clemson University Board of Trustees approved a $37 million expansion plan for gymnastics in conjunction with the lacrosse and rowing programs, to vault the gymnastics program off the ground.Building a program from the ground up isn’t easy - gymnastics marks the third women’s sport added by Clemson in the last five years and will begin less than a year after lacrosse had its inaugural season in the spring of 2023. The Tigers found their leader in former UCLA All-American and National Champion, Smith, who has spent five seasons as the head coach at Utah State before taking on the reins of the Tiger program. Familiar with the ACC a