The only thing bigger than the excitement at a South Greensburg restaurant Saturday afternoon was the pride for Jeannette native Jasmine Jones, who will come home as an Olympic medalist. That, and the decibel level from the cheering.

Jones, a 2014 Hempfield Area graduate, and her teammate, Kaillie Armbruster Humphries, won a bronze medal in the two-woman bobsled event at the 2026 Winter Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, on Saturday, finishing third behind two German teams.

“We’re just so proud that someone from a small town made it to the Olympics,” said Jones’ aunt Tonya Poole-Brundage of Dormont, who joined family and friends to watch the event at Morelands at Waterworks in South Greensburg. “She was determined she could do this — and she did it.”

It was the second day for their watch party at the restaurant, where Jones had once worked as a hostess and waitress. They were there Friday for the first two heats, in which Jones and her teammate had also placed third.

“We did it! We did it!” said Jones’ aunt Chris Harman of Greensburg. “We went, we saw, we conquered.”

Harman’s pride extended to all of Team USA.

“We left it all on the ice, and we got what we were out to achieve,” she said. “We’re so proud of Team USA.”

Jones, 29, now lives in Lake Placid, N.Y., where she is stationed with the Air Force. A former track star at Eastern Michigan University, she failed to make 2022 winter Olympics team following the birth of her daughter, Jade, in February 2021.

“I’m happy she got to go this time,” Morelands owner George Moreland said. “It’s not too often you get somebody from this area to compete in the Olympics.”

Patti DeFeo of Greensburg said she has long known Jones’ mother and Jones since she was a young girl.

Jones launched a GoFundMe to raise money so that her mother, Christine Graves, could be in Italy with her.

“She was always so respectful,” she said. “These are the kind of people you want to see achieve their dreams.”

Harman said Jones — who goes by “Jazz” and whom relatives call “Jazzy” — represents the true meaning of perseverance and dedication.

“Now, she’s reaping the rewards,” she said. “What an awesome feeling, to represent your country.”

Godmother Rachel Gant, who often babysat Jones while her mother was working, said words could not express the pride she was feeling.

“I’m just overwhelmed,” she said. “Her first time in the Olympics, and look what she won.”