Beatrice Shea

Photo by: Chris Floyd

Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Squadron:
14 Cobras
High School:
Oak RIdge

SOPHOMORE YEAR | 2023: Competed in four meets, including the conference championships…clocked a career-best 6K time of 22:22.7 to finish 58th at the Mountain West Championships…Falcons’ No. 3 finisher at the Roadrunner Invitational…recorded a 23:24.03 to finish 17th out of 79 runners and help Air Force to a third-place finish…earned a top-15 finish at the UCCS Open (13th) after clocking a 5K time of 18:18.3…opened the season with a three-mile time of 19:06 at the Air Force Invitational (11th)…academic all-conference.

FRESHMAN YEAR | 2022: Competed in three meets…made collegiate debut at the Air Force Classic, posting a three-mile time of 20:09 (16th)…clocked a 5K time of 20:03.9 to place within the top half of the field at the Woody Greeno/Jay Dirksen Invitational (119th)…finished 61st at the UCCS Open after completing the 6K course in 26:24.1.

HIGH SCHOOL: Oak Ridge High School…All-American at the 2021 USATF Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships…finished 26th at the Tennessee DI state cross country championships as a sophomore…named Best Female Athlete, Anderson County in 2019…all-state honoree in the indoor two-mile run…two-time member of the All-South Footlocker Team…all-Metro Knoxville selection in cross country…also competed in varsity rowing (third at the Tennessee Indoor Championships) and varsity swimming (2021-22 Most Improved)…member of the National Honor Society and French National Honor Society…Mu Alpha Theta honorary president…member of the 30+ Club…earned Honorable Mention honors on the French National Exam and a Seal of Biliteracy…attended the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts (oboe)…played French horn and oboe in the Knoxville Youth Symphony…Tennessee Volunteer Girls’ State Delegate.

PERSONAL: Full name is Beatrice Elizabeth Howell Shea…daughter of William and Beth Ann Shea…father served in the Navy…both played sports in college – mother was a coxswain for the club rowing team at Purdue University and father played club rugby at Old Dominion University…is an only child…earning a double major in applied mathematics and meteorology…future plans include becoming a weather officer, while running professionally…serving as the Training NCOIC…named to the Commandant’s List and Dean’s List as a sophomore…hobbies include caving, exploring national parks and horseback riding…trained in classical ballet, pointe and other styles of dance for 15 years…grandfather, John E. North, served in the U.S. Army Air Corps…great uncle, Richard T. Shea, is a 1952 graduate and former distance runner at Army West Point…spent three weeks interning at the Sandia National Lab in New Mexico over the summer as part of the Cadet Summer Research Program…compared the capabilities of ground- and space-based optical lightning sensors during CSRP, with results to be presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in December…also traveled to Incirlik AB, Turkey, for Ops (first time traveling abroad) and was a member of the Support Staff during Basic Cadet Training, serving cadets at Metal Mitch’s during their time in Jack’s Valley…member of Cadet Squadron 14.