SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Former Notre Dame track & field athlete Jadin O’Brien has been named to the 2026 U.S. Olympic Bobsled and Skeleton Team for the two-woman bobsled, as announced by Team USA on Monday.
O’Brien is one of six athletes to earn a spot on three teams that will compete in Italy next month, and she will compete as a push athlete in the two-woman bobsled event.
Women’s Bobsled Athletes (pilot / push athlete):
Kaillie Armbruster Humphries / Jasmine Jones
Kaysha Love / Azaria Hill
Elana Meyers Taylor / Jadin O’Brien
A native of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, O’Brien is one of the most decorated track & field athletes in Notre Dame program history. She was a three time NCAA Champion in the pentathlon and was twice the NCAA Runner-Up in the heptathlon. A ten-time All-American and two-time Olympic Trials Qualifier in the heptathlon, O’Brien was the 2025 USTFCCCA Indoor and Outdoor Great Lakes Region Field Athlete of the Year. In 2025, she became the fifth four-time indoor champion in ACC history with her fourth-consecutive pentathlon title. She also became the first combined athlete ever to accomplish the feat of being a four-time indoor ACC champion.
It is the first USA Bobsled Team selection for O’Brien, who had earned a spot on the World Cup team for Team USA in September. She was part of a fourth-place finish alongside teammate Elana Meyers Taylor at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation World Cup races in December in Sigulda, Latvia.
The 2026 Winter Olympic Games take place in Italy. The bobsled portion of the Olympics will be held at the Cortina Sliding Centre, and the two-woman official training heats begin on February 17.
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