Jenna O'Hea

Fast Facts

Sport: Basketball
Event: Women's
Olympic History: London 2012, Tokyo 2020
Year Born: 1987
Born: Traralgon, VIC

About Jenna

Jenna was a mainstay in the Opals because of her abilities to both create points and defend them, but she had a rocky start to her international career with injury robbing her of a spot on the 2005 FIBA U19 World Championships team.

She was picked for the 2007 FIBA U21 World Championships to make her international debut and Jenna didn't look back.

Grabbing her Opals start at the 2010 FIBA world titles, after her first WNBL All-Star five honour with the Melbourne Boomers, Jenna began attracting overseas attention. The Los Angeles Sparks offered her a WNBA contract for the 2011 season.

She was a member of the London 2012 Olympic Team that won bronze, beating Russia in the play-off.

At 26, Jenna enjoyed the best season of her WNBL career in 2013-14, claiming a fourth WNBL All-Star five honour in five seasons.

In her entire WNBL career, just shy of 300 games, Jenna became a 3x WNBL champion, 5x WNBL All-Star and Life Member.

Jenna won gold for the Opals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and a silver at the 2018 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in Spain, of which she was the team captain. It was their best finish at a World Cup since winning the gold in 2006.

In 2019 Jenna and the team added another medal to their cabinet, bronze at the FIBA Asia Cup.

At the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics - in 2021 - the Opals played Belgium (L 85-70), China (L 76-74) and Puerto Rico (W 96-69) in the group phase. In the quarter-finals they squared off against the USA, losing to the eventual Olympic champions 79-55 and finishing 8th in the tournament.

Jenna captained the side and played in all four matches, averaging 8.5 points, 3 rebounds and 2.3 assists in 20.9 minutes per game.

After 81 senior appearances for the Opals spanning across 12 years, Jenna announced her retirement from both international and national basketball in March 2022.