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2018 Women's Track & Field Roster

Melanie O'Brien

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Nevada Union HS
  • Hometown Grass Valley

Biography

Posted season-best 4,313 points in the heptathlon during the 2015 Delta Mustang Invitational…Finished fifth in the hep at the CCAA Track & Field Championships…Pre-Chico Days: A 2014 graduate of Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley…Named the Miners’ Female Athlete of the Year and track & field MVP as a senior…Sierra Foothill League 100- and 300-meter hurdles champion in 2014…Nevada Union’s track & field Rookie of the Year in 2013…Also lettered in basketball, volleyball and softball…Earned All-Sierra Foothill League honors in basketball, helping Miners win a pair of league titles…Personal: Born 5/21/96 in Grass Valley…Daughter of Brian and Rachel…Has one younger brother, David…Sports hero is Jackie Joyner-Kersee…Biggest sports thrill is posting a PR…Enjoys eating, boating in the summer and adventuring…Says the best things about Chico are the food, the people and the trees…Plans to someday go skydiving…Best advice ever received: “don’t be upset with the result you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do”…Would travel the world if money were no object…Majoring in criminal justice…Would like a career in forensic investigation or criminal psychology.

Historical Player Information

  • 2015Freshman

  • 2016Sophomore

  • 2017Junior

  • 2018Senior

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