Auburn star Suni Lee, the defending Olympic all-around gold medalist, won’t compete in the Tigers’ final home meet of the season.

The sophomore and defending NCAA beam champion is dealing with a “non-gymnastics health issue” and won’t compete in Auburn’s regular-season finale against Penn State on Friday night at Neville Arena, head coach Jeff Graba announced Thursday night. It’s the second consecutive meet Lee will be sidelined due to a non-gymnastic injury.

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“Suni is going through a non-gymnastics health issue that has impaired her ability to train,” Graba said in a statement. “We do not want to put our athletes in any position that could risk their overall health and well-being. With that said, we’ve decided that it is in Suni’s best interest to take Friday’s meet off.”

Though she will not be competing against Penn State on Friday night, she will be among the eight players Auburn will honor on senior night at Neville Arena. Despite being just a sophomore, Lee announced before the season that this will be her final year competing at the collegiate level, as she plans to shift her focus to training for the 2024 Olympics in Paris and an opportunity to defend her all-around gold medal she won at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 before she enrolled on the Plains.

In a short time, Lee has become one of the most accomplished gymnasts in program history at Auburn. Along with her three Olympic medals (she took home silver with Team USA and also won bronze on the bars in Tokyo), Lee was the runner-up in the all-around at last year’s NCAA championship, finishing behind Florida’s Trinity Thomas. Lee, who won the beam title as a freshman, also won the bars title at the SEC Championship last year. She earned first-team All-America honors in the all-around, beam and floor, and she was a second-team All-American on bars.

Lee also owns the Auburn record for career perfect-10s, with nine to her name. She scored five 10s last season: on bars against LSU and in the SEC Championship, and on beam against Kentucky, Florida and in the NCAA Regional. This season, she has added four more, including two during Auburn’s road meet against rival Alabama (bars and beam). The other two this year came on beam in the Super 16 Challenge to open the season in Las Vegas and on bars against LSU.

Lee, who owns the fourth-highest individual all-around score in the nation this season (39.825), also has the fourth-highest average all-around score this season (39.683) and is seventh in national qualifier score (39.655). She has helped anchor Auburn’s lineup for much of the year, as the Tigers have the ninth-best NQS team score in the country (197.460) entering their regular-season finale.

Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.