JaiCieonna Gero-Holt

CHAMPAIGN, IL - April 11, 2026 - Heptathlete JaiCieonna Gero-Holt during the Illini Deca Jam at Demirjian Park in Champaign, IL. Photo By Eason Zhou/Fighting Illini

Photo by: Illinois Fighting Illini

JaiCieonna Gero-Holt and Meagan Humphries

Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
South Hill, Wash.
High School:
Emerald Ridge
Major:
French

2026 Big Ten Heptathlon Champion

All-American Pentathlon (2026) // Heptathlon (2026)

2x NCAA Championships Qualifier

Big Ten Freshman of the Year

1x First-Team All-Big Ten // 1x Second-Team All-Big Ten

Illinois Record - Heptathlon & Pentathlon

2026

Indoor

NCAA All-American (Pentathlon, High Jump)
NCAA Championships qualifier (Pentathlon, High Jump)
Second-Team All-Big Ten (Pentathlon)
National runner-up in the pentathlon with a program record 4,466 points and All-American in the high jump [fourth, 1.85m (6-0 3/4)] at the NCAA Indoor Championships
- Second pentathlon All-American and highest finisher in Illinois history
- Sixth individual high jump All-American in Illinois history
Team's leading scorer at NCAA Indoor Championships (12 points)
Silver medalist in the pentathlon (4,400 points) and fifth in the high jump, 1.81m (5-11 1/4), at the Big Ten Indoor Championships
Leaped the program's third-best high jump at the Razorback Invitational, 1.88m (6-2)

Outdoor

NCAA All-American (Heptathlon)
Big Ten Freshman of the Year
NCAA Championships qualifier (Heptathlon)
Big Ten Champion (Heptathlon)
First-Team All-Big Ten (Heptathlon)
Shattered the program record heptathlon en route to her bronze medal at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (6,010 points)
- Highest event finisher in program history and collected the school's fourth All-America honor
- First Illini woman over 6,000 points in program history
Big Ten Champion in the heptathlon (5,994 points) to earn the school's third title in the event
- First Illini heptathlon champion in 32 years (Carmel Corbett, 1994)
- Corbett and Gero-Holt are the only two heptathlon champions in the program's history as Corbett also won in 1992 as a freshman and again in 1994
Leaped the program's fifth best high jump, 1.84m (6-0 1/2), during her heptathlon at the Tom Jones Memorial

2025

Indoor

Redshirt season

Outdoor

Redshirt season

High School

Nine-time State Champion
Four-year letterwinner

Personal

Born December 2, 2006... Daughter of Justin Holt and Ciera Holland... Chose Illinois because "Coach Petros is amazing at developing Olympic level talent which is where I want to be one day."