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2025-26 Track & Field Roster

Ava O'Connor

  • Position Distance
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Emo, Ireland
  • High School Scoil Chriost ri Portlaoise
  • Major Kinesiology

Biography

Accolades

  • Member of the National Champion team at the 2021 NCAA Division II Cross Country Championship

  • Member of the 2023 National Championship team at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships 

  • Member of the 2023 National Runner-Up team at the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships

  • Member of the 2024 National Runner-Up team at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships

  • Member of the 2025 National Runner-Up team at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships

  • Represented Ireland at the 2023 U23 European Athletics Championships, finished 8th place (3,000m Steeplechase), 2025 European Team Championships Division B, finished 4th place (3,000m Steeplechase)

  • Runner-Up, Athletics Ireland Senior Championships, 3,000m Steeplechase (2024)

  • National Champion, Outdoor Track & Field, 3000m Steeplechase (2025)

  • National Runner-Up, Outdoor Track & Field, 5000m (2025)

  • All-American, Cross Country (2023, 2024)

  • All-American Indoor Track & Field, 3000m (2023, 2025)

  • All-American, Indoor Track & Field, Mile (2025)

  • All-American Indoor Track & Field, DMR (2023)

  • All-American Outdoor Track & Field, 3000m Steeplechase (2023, 2024, 2025)

  • All-American, Outdoor Track & Field, 5000m (2025)

  • All-Region, Cross Country (2023, 2024)

  • All-RMAC Cross Country (2021,2023, 2024)

 

2024-25

Cross Country

  • RMAC Champion at the 2024 RMAC Cross Country Championships, 19:28.3

  • Finished 4th at the 2024 South Central Regional Championships, 21:30.9

  • Finished 19th at the 2024 NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships

Indoor Track & Field

  • Finished 3rd in the Mile at the 2025 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships in a career best time, 4:41.87

  • Finished 6th in the 3000m at the 2025 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships

Outdoor Track & Field

  • Set a career best in the 1500m at the Bryan Clay Invitational, 4:15.31

  • Ran a career best in the 5000m at the APU Franson Last Chance, 15:49.65

  • National Champion in the 3000m Steeplechase at the 2025 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships, 10:11.14

  • Set a career best in the 3000m Steeplechase at the Montet GP Lahti in Lahti, Finland, 9:45.00

2023-24

Cross Country

  • Finished 17th at the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships (20:25.5)

  • Finished 5th at the NCAA Division II South Central Region Cross Country Championships (20:46.0)

  • Finished 6th at the RMAC Cross Country Championships (21:08.7)

Indoor Track & Field

  • Set a career best in the 3,000m at the Shannon Colyear-Danville Season Opener, 9:10.48

Outdoor Track & Field

  • Set a career best in the 3,000m Steeplechase at the Portland Twilight, 9:54.66

  • National Runner-Up in the 3,000m Steeplechase at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships, 10:08.07

2022-23

Indoor Track & Field

  • Posted career best in the 3000m at the 2023 Indoor Track & Field Championships (9:16.59)

Outdoor Track & Field

  • Posted career best in the 1500m at the Bryan Clay Invitational (4:20.04)

  • Posted career best in the 3000m Steeplechase at the Bryan Clay Invitational (10:07.96)

 

2021-22

Indoor Track & Field

  • Posted career best in the Mile at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & FIeld Championships (4:46.18)

Outdoor Track & Field

  • Posted career best in the 800m at the 2022 RMAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships (2:09.08)

 

Prep: Graduated from Scoil Chriost Ri Portlaoise in County Laois, Ireland in June 2021… Received Sportsperson of the Year (2016-2021)


Off the Track: Daughter of Liam and Sinead O’Connor… majoring in Kinesiology…

Historical Player Information

  • 2024-2025Senior

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  • 2025-26Graduate Student

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