Jadin O'Brien
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
| Born | May 8, 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Heptathlon, Pentathlon | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Heptathlon: 6234 (Eugene, 2024) Pentathlon: 4596 (Virginia Beach, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Jadin O'Brien (born May 8, 2002) is an American multi-event athlete. She has won multiple NCAA titles in the pentathlon.[1]
Early life
[edit]From Pewaukee, Wisconsin, her father is former NFL player Kevin O’Brien and her mother Leslie was a track athlete. She played numerous sports as a youngster before focusing on athletics in her freshman year at Divine Savior Holy Angels High School. She began attending University of Notre Dame in 2020.[2]
Career
[edit]She finished twelfth in the US Olympic Trials in the heptathlon in 2021. In 2023, she won the 2023 NCAA Championship pentathlon title.[3] She won the heptathlon at the 2023 NACAC U23 Championships.[4]
She suffered a stress fracture in her shin which limited her 2023 outdoor track season however, but retained her NCAA Indoor pentathlon title in 2024.[5] In April 2024, she set a school record in the women’s heptathlon, scoring 6115 points in California.[6] She finished runner-up to Timara Chapman at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June 2024, with a tally of 6234 points.[7][8] She finished seventh in the heptathlon at the US Olympic Trials in June 2024.[9]
She won the 2025 NCAA Championship indoor pentathlon title on March 14, 2025, in Virginia Beach.[10][11] She did so with a personal-best 4596 points and became the first woman to win three consecutive titles since Kendell Williams.[12]
In June 2025, she was runner-up to Pippi Lotta Enok in the heptathlon at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon with 6256 points.[13] She placed fifth overall in the heptathlon at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, finishing on 5991 points.[14]
Personal life
[edit]In 2025, she was linked to a try-out for the USA Bobsleigh team.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jadin O'Brien". World Athletics. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ Reidy, Tyler (May 17, 2024). "2024 Observer Sports Female Athlete of the Year: Jadin O'Brien". ndsmcobserver. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "Pewaukee native aims for Olympic Trials after consecutive NCAA titles". tmj4. April 11, 2024. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "NACAC U23 Championships". World Athletics. July 21, 2023.
- ^ "Injury should have made repeating as NCAA track champion impossible for Pewaukee's Jadin O'Brien. She won again, anyway". jsonline. April 5, 2024. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "O'Brien sets school record in active track and field weekend". ndsmobserver. April 24, 2024. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "2024 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship Results". Runnersworld. June 8, 2024. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "Florida men, Arkansas women win 2024 DI outdoor track and field championships". ncaa. June 17, 2024. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "U.S. Olympic Track And Field Trials Results Day 4". Flotrack. June 25, 2024. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "JADIN O'BRIEN CHAMPION WOMEN'S PENTATHLON - NCAA D1 INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025". Dyestat. March 14, 2025. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "Daniel wins long jump on Day One of NCAA Men's and Women's Indoor track and field championships". abcnews. March 14, 2025. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "UT's Daniel, Baylor's Brown earn long jump crowns at NCAA indoors". ESPN. March 15, 2025. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "NCAA D1 Track And Field Championships 2025 Results & Women's Finals Scores". flotrack. June 15, 2025. Retrieved June 15, 2025.
- ^ Woods, David (August 1, 2025). "Garland Rises To No. 3 On All-Time U.S. List With 8,869 Points In Decathlon; Anna Hall Ready To Take Another Shot A Gold With Stellar 6,899 Heptathlon For 4th Straight Title". NBC Sports. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
- ^ "NCAA HEPTATHLON CHAMPION JADIN O'BRIEN HAS OVERCOME SEVERE SETBACKS TO BODY, MIND AND SOUL". Runnerspace. May 5, 2025. Retrieved August 2, 2025.