Enrolled at Eastern in the fall of 2013 after lettering two seasons at Division II Southern Connecticut State University, helping the Owls to consecutive Northeast-10 Conference championships... competed in a variety of events, including the breaststroke, butterfly, individual medley, freestyle and relays... as a freshman, finished fourth in the 100 and fifth in the 200 breaststroke at the NE-10 Championships...
Coach Fahey: "Shannen continues to excel in the fly and breastroke events. Her hard work and determination will have a big impact on team this year. Her flexibility to swim different events will boost the team's success."
2013-14: One of eight first-year letterwinners... six-time All-NEISDA in the freestyle (3rd), butterfly (4th) and breaststroke (7th) and with three relays... swam the third legs on the record-setting 200 medley relay at the LEC meet and the 400 medley relay at NEISDA... second-team All-LEC with the 200 medley relay... captured nine firsts in dual meets... was undefeated during the regular season in the 50 butterfly... began her career with a fourth-place finish (tops among newcomers) at the USJ Pentathlon.. during the season, had the team's fastest times in the 50 and 100 butterfly and second-fastest times in the 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke...
High School: Swam for four seasons, helping the Vikings to as many conference championships... high-point person as a senior captain... set program records in the 100 breaststroke and 100 butterfly...
PERSONAL: Born Shannen M. Barnard February 8, 1992…Parents: Susan and Peter… Brothers: Tyler, Jamie ...Major: Business Information Systems… Career Plans: Business Analyst...Residence: Niantic…
Individual Results
2014/15
2013/14
SHANNEN... REVEALED
Favorite activity other than sports: Going to the beach
Best place for pizza: The Recovery Room
Favorite actor: Heath Ledger
Most difficult aspect of college: Finding a balance
Most important thing in your life: Family
Most difficult aspect of your sport: Keeping the motivation up
Best athlete of all time: Muhammad Ali
Sport requiring the most strength: Gymnastics
Greatest song ever: Don’t Stop Believin’- Journey
Favorite pro team: Giants
One thing you would like to do before you die: Travel the world
Greatest coach of all time: Geno Auriemma
Most embarrassing moment: As a freshman, forgetting what lap I was on in the 200 breaststroke and stopped too early…still didn’t get last place though!
Favorite smell: Sweet pea
Biggest crisis facing the world: Poverty
Closest brush with greatness: Being in the same room as Bill Cosby
Your greatest thrill in sports: The men’s 4x100 freestyle relay in the 2008 Beijing Olympics
What would you like to get paid to do for a living? Working out
Most influential person in the world: Nelson Mandela
Automobile you would buy tomorrow if you had the money: Dodge Viper
Favorite city ever visited: Boston
Favorite Olympic sport to watch: Beach volleyball
Red Sox or Yankees: Yankees
Best vacation of all time: Bahamas
