LSU Gold

Christian Brennan Season 2024

Position
Sprints
Height
5'4
Class
Senior
Hometown
Waterdown, Ontario, Canada
Previous School
Oregon
High School
St. Mary's Catholic HS

Events: 200M (IN: 24.22; OUT: 23.38w/23.43), 400M (IN: 53.83; OUT: 52.12)

NCAA Champion
2-time All-American

CAREER CAPSULE
Graduated from LSU in May 2017 with a degree in sociology.

2017
Competed in six meets in her final season at LSU in 2017 … Ran a seasonal-best time of 56.84 seconds in the 400-meter dash for a third-place finish at LSU’s Bayou Bengal Invitational during the indoor season … Also ran the 400 meters indoors at the Auburn Invitational (58.18) and LSU Twilight (58.09) … Placed seventh in the 600 meters in her season debut at the Purple Tiger Invitational with a run of 1 minute, 37.81 seconds … Twice lined up in the 400 meters during the outdoor season … Earned a 17th-place finish with an outdoor seasonal best of 57.61 at the Battle on the Bayou … Also placed 20th in the B section at the LSU Alumni Gold with a time of 58.99.

2016
Ran the 200 meters and 400 meters in her debut season with the Lady Tigers … Clocked an indoor seasonal best of 24.66 for fourth place in the 200 meters at the LSU High Performance Meet during the indoor season … Also placed fourth in the event at the Bayou Bengal Invitational … Clocked 24.89 for 34th place at the Power Five Conference Clash and an altitude-adjusted time of 24.75 for 26th place at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic … Also ran her fastest 400 meters of the indoor season at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic, finishing ninth overall with a time of 55.56 … Led off LSU’s “B” team that finished runner-up in the 4×400-meter relay at the Bayou Bengal Invitational during the indoor season … Also ran on relay teams at the Power Five Conference Clash, New Mexico Collegiate Classic and LSU High Performance Meet during the indoor season … Opened her outdoor season by placing sixth in the 400 meters at Miami’s Hurricane Twilight with a time of 56.03 … Ran the third leg of LSU’s “B” team that finished runner-up in the 4×400 relay at the Hurricane Twilight with a time of 3:43.68 … Placed 10th at the Battle on the Bayou (55.49) and 16th at the Texas Invitational (57.93) … Also ran the 200 meters at the Battle on the Bayou, placing 20th overall with a wind-aided time of 24.32 (+2.3).

PRIOR TO LSU
An NCAA Champion and All-American 400-meter sprinter in her two-year stint at the University of Oregon in 2014 and 2015 … Member of Oregon’s NCAA-title-winning 4×400-meter relay team at the 2014 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships, running the third leg on the team that set the collegiate indoor record of 3 minutes, 27.40 seconds in the national final to clinch the NCAA Indoor team title for the Ducks … Also ran on Oregon’s 4×400-meter relay team that earned a third-place national finish at the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Championships with a time of 3:29.03 in the final … Opened her collegiate career by clocking seasonal bests of 53.83 indoors and 52.81 outdoors in the 400-meter dash in 2014 … Was an NCAA Championships qualifier in the 400-meter dash as a freshman at Oregon while finishing in 33rd place overall at the 2014 NCAA West Preliminary Rounds after running 54.62 in the first round of qualifying … Clocked her 2014 seasonal best of 52.81 in a third-place finish at the Mt. SAC Relays … Swept sprint titles in the 200 meters (23.61) and 400 meters (54.43) at the Oregon Preview in her collegiate debut outdoors in 2014 … Ran her indoor personal-best time of 53.83 in a runner-up finish in the 400 meters at the Don Kirby Elite meet during the 2014 indoor season … Followed in 2015 by clocking seasonal bests of 24.47 in the 200 meters at the UW Indoor Preview at the University of Washington and 55.15 in the 400 meters at the Don Kirby Elite meet … Once again an NCAA Championships qualifier during the 2015 outdoor season as a member of Oregon’s 4×400-meter relay team … Featured for the Ducks at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships where she ran on the team that clocked 3:39.07 for 18th place in the NCAA semifinals … Helped the Ducks qualify from the national quarterfinals with an eighth-place finish in the relay at the 2015 NCAA West Preliminary Rounds with a time of 3:33.69 … Also lined up in the 400 meters at the NCAA West Prelims, finishing in 36th place overall with a time of 54.81 in the first round … Was a Pac-12 Outdoor Silver Medalist in the 4×400-meter relay as a member of Oregon’s team that placed second with a time of 3:34.73 at the conference meet in 2015 … Qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds in the 400 meters for the second-straight season after running a 2015 seasonal best of 53.94 in a runner-up finish at the Oregon Relays … Ran 2015 seasonal bests of 24.21 wind-aided at the Oregon Twilight and 24.57 wind-legal at the Trojan Invitational while running the 200 meters … Arrived at the University of Oregon following a distinguished youth career as one of Canada’s top sprint talents … Silver medalist in both the 200 meters and 400 meters at the 2011 IAAF World Youth Championships … Set the Canadian youth record with a personal-best time of 52.12 in the 400-meter final at the IAAF World Youth Championships in 2011 … Clocked a wind-legal 23.47 (+0.1) to win the World Youth silver medal in the 200 meters … Set the Canadian junior record with a personal best of 23.43 (+1.8) at the 2011 Canadian Youth Championships … Bronze medalist in the 400-meter dash with a time of 52.49 at the 2011 Canadian Senior National Championships at the age of 15 … Won three-straight Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) titles in the 400 meters for St. Mary’s Catholic and added 100-meter and 200-meter provincial titles in 2010 and 2011 … Also ran a wind-legal PR of 11.77 in the 100 meters as a youth.

PERSONAL
Full name is Christian Evelyn Brennan … Born on March 27, 1995 … Parents are Chris and Diane Brennan … Has one older brother, Patrick, and two younger brothers, Austin and Spencer … Majoring in pre-humanities and social science.

 

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