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Ella Onojuvwevwo Season 2025

Position
Sprints
Height
5'3
Class
Junior
Hometown
Ughelli, Nigeria
High School
Unenurhie Secondary School
Experience
2L
Indoor Class
Junior

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.

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