BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Olivia Dunne is making her debut in next month’s “Sports Illustrated” swimsuit issue.

The magazine made the announcement via social media on Thursday, April 27 and called Dunne “an absolute inspiration for other female athletes around the world”.

The Louisiana State University junior is said to be the highest-earning college athlete on Instagram. She has 3.9 million followers on Instagram, 7.4 million Tik Tok followers and 79k followers on Twitter.

She told “Sports Illustrated” that she hopes to bring attention to college gymnastics and its athletes. She also talked to the magazine about mental health, a pay gap in NIL deals and modeling swimwear for the first time.