Ellie Shea college?

Her entry mark. Her race hasn't started yet.

She's on about 16:20 pace at 4K

Ellie Shea finished in 16:30.

She ran the first 1600 in about 5:00, but couldn't keep that pace up.

Leachman also went out in about 5:00 in her national record race, but she was able to keep that pace for another 3200 and then she picked up the pace. Just goes to show how far Leachman is ahead of the other high school girls in the 5k.

Shea has had a tough year whether due to injury or whatever, clearly not what she achieved in prior years. She used to run a lot of races, hopefully that is not what took its toll. Hopefully she gets through this and has future success. Some think Leachman is racing too much.

The fall wasn't great for Ellie Shea , but she did really well in world xc 6 or 7 weeks ago, where she was the top US finisher.

Hopefully she just had an off day and can bounce back in Brooks PR 2 mile next month.

She has been Tresslered? Bye

well, Margot Appleton seems to have done well in college.

yea, nice, one out of a thousand.

Ellie Shea, 16:30 for 5000m tonight about 1-min slower than she thought.

But lots of Appleton's development has come ON a college team. And that's exactly what Shea won't have if she somehow continues with Tressler instead of an NCAA program. Also, I think Shea's HS career with Tressler/EE has been more intense (and I'd say idiosyncratic) than Appleton's.

is she going anywhere?

She’s taking a gap year

You mean a year off?

Has Ellie Shea actually announced that? Or you're guessing?

Would be nice if her and Zealand (U20 teammate so already familiar) teamed up at Liberty. I don't think it would happen but maybe since they were in somewhat similar situations in high school (Zealand being homeschooled and Shea only running club), it could be nice for them to have one another and Zealand's mom as coach. Her sister goes to Smith College though so I could see her going there despite it being D3.

Probably Harvard but who knows?

I think not. Shea gives every impression of being a typically secular, liberal Massachusetts gal (has pronouns in her IG bio, for instance), and Liberty is perhaps THE school of the Christian right, so ... wouldn't work.

The correct usage is “she and Zealand…”. A good way to check is to remove “and Zealand” and try the sentence with only one subject.

“Would be nice if she…”

No. She isn't dumb enough to pay $360K for college when she could go to Michigan or Duke or Stanford for free.