Quick Facts
- Position: Push Athlete
- Daughter of Leslie and Kevin O’Brien
- Her father, Kevin, played college football and mother, Leslie, competed in track and field at Bowling Green State University
- One of six siblings
- Three-time NCAA indoor pentathlon champion
Biographical Information
Jadin O'Brien grew up in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, in an athletic family; the daughter of two college athletes, and one of six siblings. O'Brien excelled in basketball and track and field in high school and went on to the University of Notre Dame, where she was a three-time NCAA indoor pentathlon champion. O'Brien competed at two U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field and finished fifth in the women's heptathlon at the U.S. national championships in 2025.
Later that year, O'Brien started in bobsled in August 2025 and made the U.S. Bobsled team for the 2025-26 season as a push athlete. At her IBSF World Cup debut later that year in Sigulda, Latvia, O'Brien would finish fourth in two-woman Bobsled and would be named to her first Olympic team for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.
Olympic Experience
- 1-time Olympian
- Olympic Games Milan 2026, 7th (2-Man Competition - Women)