The state’s two-time returning Gatorade Player of the Year, the 5-foot-2 junior won the Class AAA state meet for a fourth-straight year this past season with a time of 18:25.42, breaking the tape 58.49 seconds ahead of her next-closest competitor and leading the Indians to a 10th-place finish as a team. O’Shea took second at the Eastbay South Regional Championships and 26th at the national Eastbay Cross Country Championships. She has been the top Kentucky finisher in 35 of the 36 races she’s entered in her prep cross country career.
O’Shea has maintained a weighted 4.22 GPA in the classroom. She will begin her senior year of high school this fall.
O’Shea has volunteered locally as part of food drives for the needy and at a retirement community. She has also donated her time as a youth tutor and on behalf of multiple community service initiatives through her church youth group.
