Jenna O'Hea (born 6 June 1987) is a former Australian professional basketball player and former captain of Australia's national team, the Opals.
[11] In the team's 66–61 preliminary loss to the Adelaide Lightning, O'Hea scored 28 points and had a field goal percentage of 55%.
[18] She played in France in 2008/2009 with Arras Pays d'Artois Basket Féminin in the Fédération Française de Basket-Ball,[19] and in the American Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2011–2013 seasons,[20][21] before being traded to the Seattle Storm for the 2014 season.
[23] She participated in a week-long training camp with the national team in Canberra in late March and early April 2008,[24] but did not make her Opals debut until 2009.
[4][9] In mid-2010, she participated in a tour of China, USA and Hungary,[25] and in 2010, was a member of the senior women's national team that competed at the World Championships in the Czech Republic.
[1] Opals teammate Lauren Jackson named O'Hea and Belinda Snell as players who would step up after Penny Taylor was injured and ruled out for London.
[28] O'Hea participated in the national team training camp held from 14 to 18 May 2012 at the Australian Institute of Sport.
[16] Opal players who make the team wear Dunlop Volleys shoes, which are highly coveted by O'Hea.
[17] In early May 2012, O'Hea and several of her national team teammates did a strength conditioning effort in the lead up to the mid-May training camp.
[16] O'Hea, like all the other members of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Opals women's basketball team, had a difficult tournament.
[29] Jenna O'Hea was born in Traralgon, Victoria on 6 June 1987,[1][4] and was educated at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne, from which she graduated in 2006.