Hall of Athletic Honor
A backstroke specialist without parallel, Shelden was a cornerstone of the most dominant era in Gettysburg women's swimming history. During her four years in the pool, she was named an All-American 11 times and an All-America honorable mention on 15 other occasions while helping the Bullets claim four Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) titles and three top-ten NCAA team finishes.
She made her presence felt immediately as a freshman in 1987-88, winning four gold medals at the MAC championships and earning the meet's Most Valuable Swimmer award. She swam to All-America honors for the first time with a fourth-place finish in the 200 backstroke at the NCAA championships. The following season, she won three more events to help Gettysburg claim another MAC title, then earned All-America honors in four events as the Bullets finished eighth in Division III.
She was again a triple gold medal winner at the 1990 MAC championships and earned four more All-America honors to help the Bullets finish a program-best seventh at the NCAA meet. For the grand finale in her senior campaign, she bagged four more MAC gold medals, earned All-America honors in the 200 backstroke for the fourth straight year and won the 1991 Clair B. Noerr Award.
A native of Moorestown, N.J., she graduated from Gettysburg in 1991 with a degree in philosophy.
