Brooke Buckhannon, Kelly Brennan, Jillian Roberts (Photos courtesy of Jesse Kucewicz)
Sophomore All-OAC distance runner Kelly Brennan broke her own school record in the 800 at the Harrison Dillard Twilight (Photo courtesy of Jesse Kucewicz)
The OAC Champion 4x800 team of Rebecca Penrose, Kelly Brennan, Katie Fowler and Madison Kile
Sophomore All-OAC distance runner Kelly Brennan won the 800m race and was the runner-up in the 1,500m race at the All-Ohio Championships
Sophomore All-OAC distance runner Kelly Brennan placed fourth in the 5k at the John Homon Open
Kelly Brennan

Kelly Brennan

  • Year:
    So.
  • Hometown:
    Akron
  • High School:
    Walsh Jesuit
  • Events:
    Distance
  • Major:
    Accounting & Finance

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2018

  • Earned All-America status with a sixth-place finish in the 800-meter run at the NCAA Outdoor Championships
  • Google Cloud Academic All-American selection
  • Google Cloud Academic All-District 7 team selection
  • Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference selection
  • Broke her own BW outdoor school-record in the 800-meter run
  • Earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors in the 4x800-meter relay (first) and 1,500-meter run (second)
  • Earned Outdoor All-Ohio honors in the 800-meter run (champion) and 1500-meter run (second)
  • Earned United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Great Lakes Region honors outdoors in the 800-meter run 
  • Named Ohio Athletic Conference Women's Track Athlete of the Week on January 22
  • Earned USTFCCCA All-Great Lakes Region honors indoors in the 5,000-meter run
  • Indoor 800-meter run season-best time of 2:18.83
  • Indoor 1-mile run season-best time of 5:07.32
  • Indoor 3,000-meter run season-best time of 10:33.35
  • Indoor 5,000-meter run season-best and career-best time of 17:35.53
  • Outdoor 200-meter dash season-best and career-best time of 28.64
  • Outdoor 400-meter dash season-best time of 1:04.03
  • Outdoor 800-meter run season-best and career-best time of 2:10.05
  • Outdoor 1,5000-meter run season-best and career-best time of 4:37.02
  • Outdoor 5,000-meter run season-best time of 18:06.85
  • Outdoor 4x400-meter relay season-best time of 4:13.33
  • Outdoor 4x800-meter relay season-best and career-best time of 9:20.21

2017

  • United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic selection
  • Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference selection
  • Earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors outdoors in the 3,000 meter run (second) and 1,500-meter (third)
  • Earned All-Ohio honors in the 1,500-meter run (first)
  • Set school-record outdoors in 800-meter run (2:12.02) at Harrison Dillard Twilight 
  • Earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors indoors in the 1500-meter run (third)
  • United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Great Lakes Region performer indoors in the 800 and 1-mile runs
  • Indoor 800-meter run season-best and career-best mark of 2:15.16
  • Indoor 1-mile run season-best and career-best time of 5:06.19
  • Indoor 3,000-meter run season-best and career-best time of 10:21.15
  • Indoor 5,000-meter run season-best time of 19:18.11
  • Outdoor 400-meter dash season-best and career-best time of 1:02.40
  • Outdoor 800-meter run season-best time of 2:12.02
  • Outdoor 1,500-meter run season-best time of 4:39.24
  • Outdoor 5,000-meter run season-best and career-best time of 17:26.83
  • Outdoor 4x400-meter relay season-best and career-best time of 4:08.60
  • Outdoor 4x800-meter relay season-best time of 10:04.75
  • Earned first varsity letter

2016

  • Did not compete in indoors or outdoors due to an injury

High School

  • Four-year letterwinner in track and field
  • Academic All-Ohio selection 
  • Three-time state qualifier
  • Earned four varsity letters in cross country 

Personal

  • Carries a 3.980 grade point average
  • Dean's List student
  • Jacket Scholar
  • Member of the Alpha Lambda and Chi Sigma Alpha honoraries
  • Older brothers Pat Brennan '13 and Michael Brennan '15 were standouts on the men's soccer team and Brian Brennan '19 was a member of the men's cross country and track teams
  • Daughter of Terry and Teri Brennan 
  • Family Feature Story
This page was last updated June 21, 2018