Members of Catholic High’s Division II state championship winning gymnastics team include, from left, Coach Shane LeLeux, Braelynn Gautreaux, Bralynn Judice, Reagann LeLeux, Kaitlyn Delcambre, Macy Lipari and Coach Morgann LeLeux.

Catholic High’s Reagann LeLeux spent most of the spring on her signature event, pole vault, as she prepared for the Class 2A Outdoor State Track Meet this Friday at LSU.

But before concentrating on her main event, she was a pretty accomplished gymnast. That gymnastic training came to the forefront over the weekend as LeLeux pulled an individual apparatus state titles, won the All-Around state championship and helped Catholic High to the Division II state title at the LHSAA State Gymnastic Meet held at Baton Rouge High School.

LeLeux won the vault with a score of 9.500, was tied for second on the uneven bars (9.550), third in the floor exercise (9.650) and seventh on the balance beam (9.450).

Those scores were good enough for first All-Around at Level 4 (38.150) just edging out Assumption’s Michaela Matherne (38.100).

As a team, Catholic High scored 111.800 which won the Division II Championship, just edging out second place E.D. White (111.400).

“I only had two practices before I went to the state meet,” said LeLeux. “I was pretty excited to win the All-Around for gymnastics.

“You can pull the gymnast our of gymnastics but you can’t pull gymastics out of the gymnast. You never really lose anything. Every year I come back in just enough time to do gymnastics for the state meet but this year I only came back a very short time for the state meet.

“I was surprised that I was able to pull it off.”

The CHS junior, already with one state championship in indoor pole vault this year and going for another in outdoor pole vault Friday, was surprised that she was able to get another state title.

“I was very surprised,” she said. “Usually the girls I’m competing against are really good, but this year it didn’t seem to have as many competitors as last year.

“When it was announced that I was the champion, the other schools and competitors were shocked.”

With only two practices under her belt in about a two week period before the state meet, LeLeux wasn’t expecting that much as she headed to the competition.

“I just wanted to go have fun and compete,” said LeLeux. “I never really expected to go and win anything.”

Her first rotation was one of her favorite events, the vault (floor is the other) and she went out and stuck the vault and the landing.

“To me, the vault is just an object to go over,” she said. “I don’t really think about what I’m doing I just go, get over the bar, stick it and land.

“I’ve always been able to hit high 9’s on the vault and to do it again for this meet was great.”

The problem was that LeLeux didn’t know she had won the vault. She didn’t know how she did in any of the four events until the winners were announced at the end.

“But I knew I did well and I was like, ‘Okay, we can do this,’” said the CHS junior. “I’m basically the cheerleader for the team.

“When we got to the awards and they announced Reagann LeLeux wins the vault, I was like ‘Woah, that’s me.”

LeLeux was so surprised that she won that she said she had pulled her gym suit down and had a shirt on. When she was announced she had to hurry up and get dressed again to go and receive her medal.

“Even when it came time for the All-Around, I still wasn’t expecting to be called,” she said. “I kept hearing all these names before me and when they got to first place I was jumping around and yelling, ‘That’s me, that’s me,’”

After that, the winning of the team title was almost anticlimactic.

“I kind of figured that we’d win the team title after I won the All-Around because me, my cousin Braelynn (Gautreau) had high nines and everybody else had pulled down at least two nines,” said LeLeux. “Having all those high scores from the team, I knew that we’d win it.”

Gautreau finished tied for 12^th in the All-Around, Kaitlyn Delcambre finished tied for 21^st, Bralynn Judice finished 25^th and Macy Lipari finished tied for 33^rd.

Added together, it was enough to wrest the title away from E.D. White, which won the team title in 2016.

Westgate’s Kauri Courtois also competed in the meet and finished tied for eighth in the All-Around.

So now LeLeux turns her attention back to track and field and goes for her third state title this school year.

But she will be back next year in gymnastics to defend her All-Around title.

“Next year I’m going to start training earlier,” she said. “I’m not going to go into the state meet on just two practices.”