Ella Onojuvwevwo Season 2025
Ella Onojuvwevwo’s TFRRS profile (for top performances and meet results)
2x USTFCCCA First Team All-American
3x USTFCCCA Second Team All-American
2024 Paris Olympian (400 Meter, Mixed 4×400-Meter Relay)
2024 World Athletics U20 Championships’ Finalist (400 Meters)
2024 African Championships Gold Medalist (Women’s 4×400)
LSU All-Time Top 10 Performance List
No. 1: Outdoor 400 Meters (50.57, 2024 SEC Outdoor Championships)
No. 2: Indoor Distance Medley Relay (10:56.41, 2023 Alex Wilson Invitational)
No. 4: Outdoor 4×400-Meter Relay (3:26.55, 2024 LSU Invitational)
No. 6: Indoor 400 Meters (52.47, 2024 SEC Indoor Championships)
2024 OUTDOOR (SOPHOMORE)
The 2024 outdoor season was one for the record books as Onojuvwevwo was the fastest U20 400-meter sprinter in the world during the collegiate season… closed out the year as a finalist at the World Athletics U20 Championships, taking fifth overall in the final with a time of 52.61 seconds… qualified for the Paris Olympics in the 400 meter and mixed 4×400-meter relay… made it to the 400m semifinals at the Olympic games… helped the women’s 4×400-meter relay to gold for Team Nigeria at the African Championships… boosted the Team Nigerian mixed 4×400 to silver at the African Championships… racked up two All-American honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championships to close her collegiate season… finished sixth in the 400m final at the NCAA Championships with a time of 50.72 seconds, clocked 50.70 seconds in the prelims to qualify… helped the 4×400-meter relay to a ninth place finish at the NCAA Championships with their time of 3:32.38… contributed two points at the SEC Outdoor Championships, helping the Tigers claim their 26th SEC women’s team title… at the SEC Outdoor Championships she clocked an LSU record, No. 7 time in the nation, No. 1 U20 time in the world and No. 3 U20 time in African history of 50.57 seconds in the 400m prelims… finished eighth overall in the 400m final at the SEC Championships with a time of 50.86 seconds… helped the 4×400-meter relay team to a fifth-place finish with a time of 3:28.08 at the SEC Championships… punched her first ticket of the season to the 2024 Paris Olympics at the World Athletics Relays in the Bahamas, scorching a split of 50.45 seconds for Nigeria’s mixed 4x400m relay to an auto-qualifying second-place finish in their heat… helped the 4x400m relay to a first-place finish at the LSU Invitational with a No. 4 time in LSU PL history and No. 9 time in the nation of 3:26.55… earned first-place finishes in the 400m and 4x400m relay at the Keyth Talley Invitational… racked up 17 top-10 finishes during the 2024 outdoor season… USTFCCCA First Team All-American (400)… USTFCCCA Second Team All-American (4×400).
2024 INDOOR (SOPHOMORE)
Closed out the indoor season helping the 4×400-meter relay team to an eighth-place finish and a time of 3:31.05 at the NCAA Indoor Championships, earning First Team All-American honors… at the SEC Indoor Championships she helped the 4x400m relay to a fifth-place finish and No. 10 time in the nation of 3:30.07… finished ninth in the 400 meter at the SEC Championships with an indoor personal-best time of 52.47 seconds that ranks sixth in LSU performance-list history… opened the season with a first-place finish in the 4x400m relay at the Corky Classic with a team time of 3:32.96… finished top 10 in the 400m and 4x400m relay at the Razorback Invitational… helped the 4x400m relay to a second-place finish and a time of 3:33.77 at the Tyson Invitational… USTFCCCA First Team All-American (4×400).
2023 OUTDOOR (FRESHMAN)
Racked up another USTFCCCA Second Team All-American honor for helping the 4×400-meter relay team to a 15th-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships… qualified for the NCAA East Preliminaries in both the 400-meter dash and the 4×400… set a huge PR of 51.85 at the SEC Outdoor Championships to take 11th, also helped her team to a seventh-place finish in the 4×400… set a 200 meter personal-best time of 23.35 seconds at the Tome Jones Memorial Invite… opened the season with a first-place finish with the 4×400 team at the Hurricane Invitational… also, took first in the 4×400 at the LSU Battle on the Bayou… finished first in the 400 at the LSU Lloyd Wills Invitational with a time of 52.52 seconds… USTFCCCA Second Team All-American (4×400).
2023 INDOOR (FRESHMAN)
Helped the LSU 4×400-meter relay team to an 11th-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships, earning Onojuvwevwo Second Team All-American honors… one leg of the women’s DMR record setting team that went 10:56.41 to take fourth in a loaded Alex Wilson Invitational field… finished in 13th for the 400 meter at the SEC Indoor Championships with a time of 53.13 seconds… clocked the ninth-fastest 400-emter time in LSU indoor performance list history with 52.61@ (adjusts to 52.72 with altitude) at the New Mexico Collegiate classic… opened up her collegiate career with a second-place finish in the 400 at the Red Raider Open… in her lone 200-meter race of the season, went 24.15 at the Red Raider Open to take 13th…. USTFCCCA Second Team All-American (4×400).
PRIOR TO LSU – Unenurhie Secondary School
Comes to LSU as a specialist in the 400 for Nigeria… a two-time World U20 Champion in the 4×400-meter relay… an African Championships silver medalist in the 4×400-meter relay mixed… has a sixth-place finish in the 4×400 at the Common Wealth games… part of the African U20 record-holding 4×400-miexed relay team that went 3:19.70 in 2022, rank fourth on the world U20 all-time list… heading to LSU, holds a personal-best time of 52.59 seconds in the 400 from 2022 and 2:20.55 in the 800 from 2019.
PERSONAL
Born on March 25, 2005, in Ughelli, Nigeria… daughter of Blessing Emehi Onojuvwevwo and Monica Emehi… has six siblings – Eloho, Favour, Jason, Moses, Progress, and Stephanie… pursuing interdisciplinary studies at LSU.