At Fredonia High School, she played softball, basketball, soccer, and track and field, and won the New York State pentathlon title in 2000 as a senior.

[4][5] Suhr attended Roberts Wesleyan University in Rochester, New York, where she competed in basketball and track and field.

In the 2005 USA Indoor Championships in Boston, Jenn Stuczynski entered as an unknown, unseeded competitor and won the US title having only trained for 10 months.

Suhr started the 2006 indoor season with personal bests at nearly every meet and becoming the #2 American all time, behind only Stacy Dragila, with her clearance of 4.68 m (15 ft 4 in).

[8] Two weeks later, at the Reebok Grand Prix on June 2, 2007, Suhr cleared 4.88 m (16 ft 0 in), breaking the American record for a second time and becoming the second highest vaulter in history behind Russian Yelena Isinbayeva.

[9] Suhr took her second national outdoor title at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Indianapolis with a vault of 4.45 m (14 ft 7 in), her only successful clearance of the competition [10] The victory secured Suhr a place on the US team for the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, held in Osaka, Japan.

[14] At the Aviva Grand Prix on July 25, 2008, two women attempted the world record in the same meet for the first time.

[17] Suhr won each Visa Championship Meet and broke her own American record with a vault of 15 ft 10 in (4.83 m) at the US Indoor Nationals in Boston on March 1, 2009, giving her a 7th US Title.

[18] On July 1, 2009, she cleared 15 ft 3 in (4.65 m) at the 2009 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Oregon to win another American title.

She subsequently finished in fourth place at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea with a leap of 4.70 m (15 ft 5 in).

She opened 2012 with an American record clearance of 4.88 m at the Boston Indoor Grand Prix, re-establishing herself as the second highest female vaulter of all-time.

On August 6, 2012, Jenn Suhr won the gold medal in the women's pole vault at the Olympic Games, defeating Cuba's Yarisley Silva on countback after both competitors had cleared 4.75 m. On March 2, 2013, Suhr broke Yelena Isinbayeva's world indoor record (set on February 23, 2012, in Stockholm) at the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with a vault of 5.02m (16 ft. 5.5 in.

Suhr earned silver medal at 2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault in 4.82 m (15 ft 9+3⁄4 in).

Suhr broke her own women's indoor pole vault world record at a Division III track and field meet at the State University of New York at Brockport on January 30 with a jump of 5.03 m (16 ft 6 in).

She came down with a severe illness prior to the competition, and although she passed through the first day of qualifying without a problem, she finished in seventh place, below initial expectations.