Before Holy Cross: Four-year member of the varsity soccer team at Chatham H.S. in Chatham, N.J., for head coach Tony Mendes...senior captain...is the only freshman at Chatham H.S. to ever play and start on the varsity soccer team...received the Coaches Award in 2006...team won the 2004 Group II State Championship...for her career she had 14 goals and 18 assists...voted the Best Female Athlete in the Chatham H.S. Senior Class...earned first team all-state Group II, first team all-Morris County, first team all-area and first team all-Iron Hills Conference honors...Morris County Daily Record First Team, Star Ledger State First Team All-Group II, Star Ledger First Team All-Morris County, all-state NJGSCA in 2005, 2006 and 2007, NJGSCA "Top 20" North Jersey Player, NJGSCA North Jersey Senior Showcase and New Jersey Senior All-Star Team...member of the Match Fit Academy Magic club team...U17 U.S. Club Soccer National Champions, Super Y League Mid-Atlantic Champions and Score at the Shore Semi-finalists...member of the New Jersey Olympic Development team in 2005...New Jersey ODP State Pool in 2004 and Super Y League ODP National Camp in 2004...also a member of the indoor and outdoor track & field teams...all-conference and all-county...member of the Morris Country indoor record-setting 4x200 relay team...member of the National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society and the Art National Honor Society.

Personal: Daughter of Scott and Jo Shenk...parents have run a combined total of 32 marathons and one ultra marathon as well as numerous shorter distances and four triathlons...has one brother, Matt, and one sister, Meghan.