UWEC Athletics Hall of Fame
Competing in four sports at Eau Claire from 1980 to 1984, Sheild holds the honor as the only athlete, male or female, at UWEC to become a four-sport All-American which she accomplished in swimming, cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. Her athletic career highlights include setting the NAIA 3,000-meter outdoor record her junior year; finishing third at the national cross country championships her junior year; placing second as part of the national 800-yard freestyle relay team her freshman year; and placing sixth at the national indoor 2-mile event her junior year. Sheild was selected as Female Athlete of the Year by the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram in 1983. A native of Madison, Sheild graduated from La Follette High School in 1980. An Academic All-American and WWIAC Scholar-Athlete while at UWEC, at the time of her induction Sheild was pursuing a master's degree in marine biology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
