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Jadin O'Brien
American multi-event athlete (born 2002) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Early life
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
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]
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Personal life
In 2025, she was linked to a try-out for the USA Bobsleigh team.[15]
References
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