2004 Jenn began pole vaulting with coach
Rick Suhr.
2005 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. She went on to set three personal bests, eventually clearing on her first attempt to leapfrog from a tie for third. Later that indoor season she won the
NAIA indoor national title in the pole vault.
2006 Suhr began her career with her coach
Rick Suhr providing financial support to her by re-mortgaging his home. 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 . She captured her first USA Outdoor title with her winning clearance of at the 2006 AT&T USA Outdoor Championships. She finished third at the
2006 World Athletics Final.
2007 Suhr won the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships in Boston on February 25, 2007. On May 20, 2007, Suhr broke the American outdoor pole vault record with a clearance of at the
Adidas Track Classic in
Carson, California, beating the previous record set by
Stacy Dragila in 2004 by one centimeter. Two weeks later, at the
Reebok Grand Prix on June 2, 2007, Suhr cleared , breaking the American record for a second time and becoming the second highest vaulter in history behind Russian
Yelena Isinbayeva. Suhr then attempted a new world record vault of – one centimeter higher than Isinbayeva's record at the time – but failed on three attempts at the height. Suhr took her second national outdoor title at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in
Indianapolis with a vault of , her only successful clearance of the competition The victory secured Suhr a place on the US team for the
2007 World Championships in Athletics, held in
Osaka,
Japan. Competing in her first major global championship, Suhr finished in 10th place in the
final, with a clearance.
2008 Suhr won the Indoor U.S. Nationals, which qualified her for the
2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's pole vault in Valencia, Spain, where she finished second on a countback to
Yelena Isinbayeva. Both cleared . At the Adidas Track Classic on May 18, 2008, Suhr cleared , breaking her own American record. She missed all three attempts at , which would have been a world record. The U.S. Olympic Committee named her its female athlete of the month for May. At the U.S. Olympic Trials on July 6, 2008, Suhr cleared , winning the trials and breaking her own American record. At the
Aviva Grand Prix on July 25, 2008, two women attempted the world record in the same meet for the first time. Both Suhr and Isinbayeva were unsuccessful. At the
Olympics in
Beijing on August 18, 2008, Suhr finished second to Isinbayeva, clearing . Isinbayeva broke her own world record with a jump of . Suhr finished with the silver medal and credited her coach
Rick Suhr for his strict regimen in preparing her for the competitiveness and high stress of the Olympics.
2009 She set a new American record on February 7, 2009, at the
Boston Indoor Games when she cleared . Suhr won each Visa Championship Meet and broke her own American record with a vault of at the US Indoor Nationals in Boston on March 1, 2009, giving her a 7th US Title. On July 1, 2009, she cleared at the
2009 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Oregon to win another American title. Suhr was forced to withdraw from the US team for the
2009 world championships in
Berlin with an
Achilles tendon injury.
2010 On June 27, 2010, Suhr won the USA Outdoor Gill Women's Pole Vault in
Des Moines, Iowa, with a vault of . It was her fifth consecutive US outdoor title and was the best mark by any woman vaulter in the world for 2010.
2011 On February 27, 2011, Suhr won her tenth national title overall with a win at the 2011
USA Indoor Track and Field Championships with another national record clearance of for the indoor event. Her run of five consecutive national outdoor titles was ended by
Kylie Hutson at the
USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, with Suhr finishing in second place with a vault. Suhr cleared – the highest vault of the year – in Rochester, New York on July 26. She subsequently finished in fourth place at the
world championships in
Daegu,
South Korea with a leap of . Suhr also took
Diamond League victories in London and Zurich during the season, defeating 2011 world champion
Fabiana Murer and three other former world champions in the latter competition. Track & Field News ranked Suhr the number one women's pole vaulter in the world for 2011.
2012 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. She won the USATF Indoor Championships in Albuquerque on Feb 25 with a vault of 4.63. A meet record of 4.65 m followed in the outdoor season at the
Drake Relays in April. On June 24, Suhr won the Olympic Trials (and the United States Championships) to qualify for her second Olympic games. 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.
2013 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.), becoming the 2nd woman in history to vault over 5 meters. Suhr won
2013 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in . Suhr earned silver medal at
2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault in .
2014 Suhr earned silver medal at
2014 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in . Suhr won
2014 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in . Suhr finished 5th in
2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's pole vault in .
2015 Suhr won
2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in .
2016 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 . Suhr earned silver medal at
2016 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in . Suhr won gold medal at
2016 World Indoor Championships in in a world indoor championship meet record. Suhr won the 2016 USA Olympic Trials and competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 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. Doctors were never able to identify the cause of Suhr's symptoms.
2022 Suhr announced her retirement in June 2022. Over the course of her career, Jenn Suhr won 17 USA National Championships, 7 indoor and 10 outdoor which included every outdoor national championship from 2006 to 2016 except for 2011. ==Sponsorship==